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.
How to get the most out of the books you read
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The cheapest and best resource at your disposal to learn new things is the age-old book. For very little money or effort, you get access to the thoughts of people you look up to. Even if you were able to buy a bit of their time for a one-on-one consult, it would cost you ten
Why I keep a paper notebook and you should to
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In a world with so many awesome digital tools, and in a life where I love Evernote despite its issues, I still carry a paper pocket notebook every day and fill all 48 pages in about a week and a half. I also carry a large notebook in my bag that I use to take
Trouble happens! How do we get stronger through it?
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When hard times come, do you want to be the type of person that makes it through the fire to the other side, refined by that fire? Of course you do! Assuming anything else would be…silly. How does one become resilient through trials, though? What traits are evident in those who have not only survived
If you want a successful business, you need to be a learner
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I regularly get asked what the one thing is that business owners need to do/have to be successful. A variation of this is what is the one thing that helped me grow my business to the success it has today? While it’s hard to pin down one thing that can take your business from nothing
The most important things to read this year
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When we’re young, we search and search for who we really are. This is often most apparent in our teen years as many of us run far from the beliefs our parents tried to instill in us throughout our years under their care. In my house my brother went the route of tattoos and ‘punk’
Are you changing this just because it makes you more comfortable?
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There are lots of cool tools out now. Developers can dive into a new JavaScript framework almost every day and each one is bigger/better/faster than previous ones. These new tools are often shiny and fun, and there is nothing wrong with trying them out, but there is something wrong when you foist them on your
You need to embrace this one thing to become the person you want
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We all have some idealized form in our heads of the person we’re going to become. Maybe our ideal has bigger muscles than we do, or makes more money or is more respected in the industry. Whatever it is, we aspire to be that person yet we often struggle with how to get there. We
Don’t participate in the culture of easy answers
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We live in a culture of easy answers. We’re drawn to a blog post titled, “5 Tips to Solve Every Problem You Have in 5 Seconds” truly believing that this fantastic claim could possibly hold any truth. We figure that by using these tips we’ll suddenly gain the same level of success as the author.
How to start running effective meetings today
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If you’re still in a job and looking to get out working for yourself, one of the best things you can do is to start running better meetings. In almost every company someone can call a meeting with 10 people that costs over $1,000/hour but would never actually spend $1,000 of company money. Then on
How shallow thinking harms our ability to be productive and learn: The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
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How is the Internet and social media changing our brains? Is this change for the better? Will the changes in our brains from today’s digital media help or hinder our long-term success in life and our ability to learn? Where Deep Work tried to answer these questions and provide a path towards getting focused attention
