Our lives are busy, so people love to talk about productivity and what “life hack” saves them a few minutes or makes their lives incrementally better, and since meetings are a fact of most people’s lives, it’s easy to find varied
Making a list and checking it twice.
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Procrastination vs. Processing
Normally I wouldn’t write a blog post to document that I’d completed a task. Especially not one that only took about 10 minutes to complete. But this is exceptional. This needed to be shared. Why? According to Remember The Milk,
Long voicemails = the end of phones?
After slogging my way through several minutes-long voicemail messages today, I’m developing a hypothesis about divergent voicemail styles. As text messaging has increased, it seems to me anecdotally that voicemail usage has decreased, but those who do leave voicemail messages
Yes, I do use Remember The Milk as a reminder service (and here’s how I do it)
Remember The Milk added a small year-end feature that sums a user’s completed tasks for 2010 and allows users to post about it on Twitter and/or Facebook. Mine came out to 7,279. Some people cried foul, and maybe that’s a little bit fair. I defini…
On being in tune
Image by lowjumpingfrog via Flickr From an article on writing the perfect pop song in the Guardian: For Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch, songwriting is not a choice, but a therapeutic necessity. “When I’m not writing songs, it’s cryptic
Quickie
(I can’t believe it’s been THAT long since I updated here.) It was a crazy productive weekend, and to reward myself for my diligence yesterday, I spent all evening writing lyrics. By hand. On paper. With a pen!
Inbox at zero, baby!
I finally got an inbox to zero! It won’t last very long, so I made sure to take a screenshot. I’ve still got my work inbox to whittle down, but that’s for later. I have to go dance a little
Odds and ends: the weekend recovery edition
I’m so lame. I never got around to posting on Blog Action Day. But my excuse is that I’ve had a real roller coaster of a week. I went from, well, managing myself on Monday to having two direct reports
Process improvement, Post-It Note style
Communications Audit Originally uploaded by brittney Brittney (a.k.a. She Who Is Soon To Be Leaving Us For The City By The Bay) took this picture of the awesome handiwork of one of our colleagues who didn’t happen to have Visio