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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
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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
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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,
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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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Slow Social Media
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A more nuanced approach to evaluating social media from Cal Newport. Only use a given social media service if it provides valuable benefits that would be hard to replace. Use these services only for these purposes. Delete all social media apps from your phone. (Few serious uses for social media require that you can access
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You can’t teach hustle from @MaddyOsman
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Maddy Osman gets a bit ranty (and it’s well deserved) with this one calling out business coaches and online courses. Oh and I love the whole article. First with some great points like: Building a successful business takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears (more so the latter
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Blog to write, tweet to fight
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I met many people through Twitter who became and remain important collaborators and friends. But the salad days of “blog to reflect, tweet to connect” are gone. Long gone. Over the last year, especially, it has seemed much more like “blog to write, tweet to fight.” – Back to the Blog I never left and
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@MaddyOsman and the girl power desk
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Always fun to see how others work. I just couldn’t do a desk that is so narrow. Would drive me bonkers. I need that USB charging station in at least two spots in my house. Neither of them is my desk though since I rarely allow devices to reside at my desk during work. I
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The ONLY Thing You Don’t Let Get Away from your is Family
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To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues, with only infrequent counterbalancing to address them. – The One Thing Tom and his social media sabbatical Say no to the hustle
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Keeping in Touch
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There were some good musicians (but not amazing musicians) who where great at keeping in touch. So when opportunities came my way, guess who I thought of to recommend? – Keep in Touch I find this as well. The people that I’m coaching end up getting almost all the referrals I have because I talk
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