LifeDev posted this back in February but I forgot to blog about it because I Am But Human and the link kinda got lost in my Google Reader Starred category (seriously, it’s a cool feature, but a number-of-starred-items indicator would be nice).
Anyway, I mostly agree with the opinions put across in the article, and the […]
OrganizeIT have posted a nice little meta-review of Your Best Year Yet by Jinny Ditzler, looking at concepts expounded in the book and expanding them into general GTD practice.
It’s interesting stuff - although it seems obvious on the surface it’s worthwhile to note that ‘Do’ and ‘Complete’ are different stages, as are ‘Complete and ‘Reward’. […]
A nice new academic-centric productivity blog that’s worth a look: Academic Productivity. In particular, I enjoyed this interview with Dave Navarro, in which he talks about how he writes academic papers - a ‘bottom up’ approach, choosing figures and chunks of text and then slowly building up into the big picture. Which is interesting, because […]
Taking useful notes is really, really important across all fields - not just in an academic context. I use the cornell index card system for note taking, writing my notes on index cards and later ‘tagging’ the notes in the left-hand column.
The Proper Cornell System
Wikipedia details the Cornell system in great detail here - there […]
There’s a lot of talk in our little realm of productivity about handling and managing tasks, but relatively little on prioritizing them - what to do when and why. The Good Book itself talks about prioritizing based on energy and importance of the task, but I like to do something else.
There are some tasks that […]
So MacApper has posted five neat little tools for enhancing productivity on your mac. I can personally vouch for the awesomeness of iFlash, particularly if you’re interested in languages. Sidenote not so much though - it’s a nice program, but I’m more comfortable with Quicksilver’s append to text file function. But, different strokes for different […]
People seem to hesitate on the simplest questions. I always thought it was just me, but apparently not. For example, I was in a coffee shop recently, and heard this little exchange at the counter.
“Cup or mug?” Long pause “Um… er.. Cup! Yes, cup, please.”
Choices are difficult and can easily slow you down. In the example above, […]
So I was reading Dave Seah’s blog the other day, and came upon his Printable CEO paper forms, and I love them - partly due to the design, but also because the point-based rewards on the main printable ceo really got my brain firing. There’s something about checking off boxes and filling things in […]
My handwriting is bad. Really bad. It’s been bad for as long as I’ve been able to do cursive, ever since elementary school. Even as an adult my penmanship has frequently been compared with Cuneiform.
Of course, with the advent of computers this shouldn’t be a problem anymore - no-one can tell how atrocious my handwriting […]
Ramit over at I will teach you to be rich has posted a fantastic article on ‘conscious spending’. I highly recommend all of you read, as it might help to get rid of the negative associations with finance (i.e. finance is about not spending money, whereas in truth finance is about spending money consciously).
It also […]