Month: January 2018
Overwork is NOT A Badge of Pride
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Overwork has become the norm in many companies – something expected and even admired. Everything we do outside the office – no matter how rewarding – is quietly denigrated. Relaxation, hobbies, raising children or reading a book are dismissed as laziness. That’s how powerful the mythology of work is. – Do you work more than…
GTD Primer from Evernote
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I don’t quite do Getting Things Done, but it’s close. The biggest thing I take exception with is writing down all the crap in your head. So much of it doesn’t matter and then you end up carting it around. This is how many people git to 55 projects with 4000 tasks that they never…
You Do You, I’ll Do Me
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When you see to improve yourself as a leader by following the popular approach of trying to adopt certain personality traits or even mimic leadership styles of successful leaders, you’re heading out on a divergent path away from the outcome you’re actually seeking. That’s because transferring an attribute like “charisma” from one person to yourself…
Better Defaults with @chrisbowler
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As they say regarding productivity, create better defaults. Add friction to distracting activities. Make it easy to start the tasks that matter. Soon, habits will form. – Better Defaults Regarding email first thing, I took it off my phone so I can’t check it. I also don’t check email until after I’ve done my big…
A Worse Phone Breaks the Addiction
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In an effort to break my smartphone addiction, I’ve joined a small group of people turning their phone screens to grayscale — cutting out the colors and going with a range of shades from white to black. – Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse Phone? I know that when iOS 11 basically made…
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is NOT an Effectively Written Book
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The Productivity Show 170
How we integrate kids into life from @bookwormfm
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Your job as a parent is to build a good adult. Mike and Joe get into this on a recent episode of Bookworm as they talk about 168 Hours. Specifically they talk about involving kids in stuff like passing you screws or helping around the house. You should be getting your kids involved. Stop saying…
The Wall Street Journal and Analogue Productivity
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I’ve never tried iCal. I use Google Calendar at work of course—refusing to accept co-workers’ meeting invites would be confusing and rude—but the idea of reducing the rest of my life to tiny cells on my phone screen fills me with dread. – Paper Planners in the Digital Age Just like Florsheim, I’m all in…
Security in Mediocrity as a WordPress Theme Builder
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Finding security in mediocrity is an exhausting process. You can only work so many hours, fret only so much. Being a slightly better typist or a slightly faster coder is insufficient. You’re always looking over your shoulder, always trying to be a little less mediocre than the guy next to you. It wears you out.…
Save Yourself The Pain Just Don’t Do Anything
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You can save yourself the pain of failing by…Never. Doing. Anything. – From Frustrated To Frickin Awesome Failure sucks. In the middle of 2017, I failed huge as a parent. My oldest kid was acting her age, and I lost it. I yelled and scared her. I had little control over how I reacted. In…
