A New Productivity System Must Solve Problems
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The second key concept you need to embrace when you’re looking at your productivity management system is that you need to be solving a problem. Changing your system is a painful expensive process. You already know the keyboard commands for your current tools. You know where they don’t work well and have devised ways around…
What Are Your Hobbies?
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Today I’m going to keep going on the theme of being more “me” and tell you a bunch about the rest of the things I enjoy and do. The links to my other “places” online are below if you’re interested in following up with me in many places. I can see why you would be,…
How To Leverage The Timing of Events in Life
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Are you an early riser or a night owl? Do you know when you should be doing your programming to have the optimal flow in your work? When is your best time of the year to start something new? These questions matter. I started working my Mullet Method because it helped me get so much…
Increasing Your Facebook Privacy: Putting lipstick on a pig
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While David says he was a curmudgeon I’m thinking of becoming one. I’ve done all the stuff David suggests and I still wonder if I’m causing people to waste time on Facebook. I know this post gets sent to Facebook which results in some vanishingly small amount of traffic. Even practicing slow social media doesn’t ring…
Missing a Friend
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Brett just wrote a post about grieving. We are still going through it after we lost Roxy a month back after 12 years with her. As he says, there is no timeline. You just slowly heal. Very slowly sometimes. We keep putting one foot in front of the other and things feel better most days.
The Key Productivity Concept of Constraint
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One of the key ideas that I built my system on is constraints. It’s the reason I use a mostly analogue system for my task management. The idea is that by making it harder to write down some ideas, I’m forced to judge their worth right away. I can’t whip out my phone and jot…
Third Spaces and Creativity
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Austin Kleon in Community and creativity in mundane retail spaces Besides fast food restaurants, I collect other stories of creative people hanging out in mundane retail spaces For me it’s a local Starbucks. I got asked this week if I was a writer and then had a 30 minute conversation with a man named David…
The Key Concepts for Choosing A Productivity System
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Finding a good productivity system is so much more than the mechanics of whatever tool you use. In fact, almost every tool is more or less the same. They have due dates, and start dates. You can organize things into projects and sub-folders. Some of them allow collaboration and some don’t. Some follow Agile methods…
How Do You Pick a Good Productivity System?
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Over the course of the next number of weeks we’re going to take a look at what it takes to have a great productivity system. We’re going to dig through the whole thing, starting with the assumptions I have made as I’ve built it out. Yes, it’s always a bit of a work in progress,…
Delete Facebook, Am I Contributing To You Staying?
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From Derek Sivers: Maybe the fact that I use it to share my blog posts is a tiny tiny reason why others are still using it I cited Cal Newport earlier today on deleting Facebook and doing social media slow so you might know already that I’m part of a single reading group that is…
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