Category: Productivity
This is about being effective with your time and being focused on the right things to do each day or at each stage.
It could overlap with PM when we talk about your time on a project.
Kids Unplugging from Social Media
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While I certainly have the view that “kids these days” are always plugged in to social media, it would seem that I’m not quite right. Few quotes: Isabelle, an 18-year-old student from Bedfordshire who doesn’t want to disclose her surname, turned against social media when her classmates became zombified. “Everyone switched off from conversation. It
The Workweek Hustle with Fitbit is a bad way to judge success
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Yes sitting is the new smoking and I do have a desk that can move from standing to sitting. I do alternate my posture at my desk regularly to help ensure that I am comfortable. I even get up and take a tour of the house every hour to make sure that even if I
Utopian Internet Promise
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The early, utopian promise of the internet was as a decentralized network that would connect people under hundreds of millions of websites and communities, each in charge of creating their own rules. But as the internet has evolved, it has become increasingly corporatized, with companies like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter replacing individually-owned
Smaller Topic Focused Communities
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From my friend Bob: A good portion of my “growing up” on the Internet focused on participating on writing forums focused on Star Trek. While I thought the community was large, it was tiny in comparison to the Twitters and Facebooks of the world. However, I was able to meet and talk with a more
Facebook feeding violence
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From The New York Times: Wherever per-person Facebook use rose to one standard deviation above the national average, attacks on refugees increased by about 50 percent. I’m largely off Facebook. I certainly do not watch the feed to engage with any posts outside of a single book club I like. Even that interaction is waning.
Twitter’s Security Choices Shows They Don’t Care About Users
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I already know that I’m not the customer for Twitter. Advertisers are the customers. That’s who gives them money, not me. But it always really hits home that Twitter doesn’t care about me when I try to do anything with it and am confronted with their security choices. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and Twitter Unfortunately given
Why The Twitter API Change is Nothing but Good
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As of August 16 2018, the Twitter API changed for 3rd party developers. Without getting too technical, Twitter is turned off the old streaming API and did not replace a bunch of it with anything at all. That means 3rd party clients lost: timeline streaming notifications on retweets, quote tweets, likes, and follows mentions and
If Your Smartphone is On Your Desk Your Doing Bad Work
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The easy option is almost always the default and this is a bad thing in many cases. The easy choice is to not have to run to another room to answer a phone call, or text message. The easy choice is to keep your phone close at hand all day. Unfortunately,if you’re smartphone is on
The MacBook Pro Updates Suck and Why I’m Happy
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For many it was a day to smile. After a long wait Apple decided to grace us with and update for their “Pro” laptops. We saw speed bumps across the board. We saw more RAM for some models. While many rejoiced I looked and was yet again disappointed. Apples definition of Pro is broken The
Turning the Challenges In Your Business into an Action Plan
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So far as we’ve looked at goals we’ve talked about Why Yearly Goals are Terrible The Alternative I use for Goal Planning If You Haven’t Planned Where You’re Going, You’re Going to End up Sunk How to Identify The Real Challenges Your Business Has Let me be clear, if you haven’t planned where you’re going
