No more coffee
I love coffee.
So much, in fact, that I was drinking many, many, many cups every day. And I got into a very bad cycle. So I stopped drinking coffee, had a splintering headache for 5 days, and just felt miserable. And now I feel great.
But I still love coffee, too bad I can’t drink it. [...]
Productivity Tip: Don't check email too often
Are you keeping one eye on the mail notifier all day long? Hmmm… the invention of the email popup, a.k.a. “You’ve Got Mail”, is probably the biggest cause of productivity drop in the past 2 decades. Our mind is very good at focusing on one thing at a time (yes, regardless of gender; we all [...]
Productivity Tip: Meetings != Work
This one is for you all working in big companies (if you work for a startup and find this true as well, run… run very fast!)
A lot of people think that going to meetings is equivalent to work. A full day of meetings is a productive day! Wrong. For most lines of work, meetings are [...]
Productivity Tip: First Things First
When I got to the office this morning and looked at my schedule I realized I wouldn’t get a ton done today. What I saw resembled more a minefield than a smooth sailing productive day, with lots of small slots in between several meetings. The outlook was pretty grim.
I’ve gotten into the habit of jotting [...]
Productivity Tip: Work the Pile
[Really have to get this blogging going...]
In addition to writing in details about how I manage my daily tsunami of tasks and activities (and in survive each day in general), I’m going to start a new, more serendipitous thread about random tips that I think of during my normal course of activity.
These won’t be structured [...]