Category: productivity
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Code: Quantity vs. Quality
Coding Horror on coding quantity vs. quality. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories. […] Stop theorizing. Write…
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More Top Productivity and Personal Development Blogs
Primarily an advert for a new “community search tool” (the author’s custom Google search), this blog post turns into an impressive list of the top productivity and personal development blogs in the following categories: Personal Growth/Productivity (e.g. Life Optimizer) Career/Personal Branding (e.g. Brazen Careerist) Lifestyle Design/Travel (e.g. Real Social Dynamics) Generation-Y Issues (e.g. Employee Evolution)…
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Moving from Digital to Analogue
The back-to-paper trend is gaining momentum, and Bill Westerman recently joined the movement; Getting Sh-t Done is his beautifully described analog productivity method. An example of his system can seen on flickr.
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Purging Book Clutter
Last week I moved house. During the move I took stock of my belongings in my ongoing battle with clutter and discovered that more than half of my boxes contained books… and that’s after I gave a box or two of books to a good home a month before! The emotional attachement that is made…
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Top 50 Productivity Blogs
The Top 50 Productivity Blogs is one of those lists that I love to hate. It’s so useful and contains a wealth of extraordinary resources, but at the same time will temporarily ruin my productivity as I scour through the archives of the mentioned blogs looking for said resources. Getting Things Done (e.g. Zen Habits)…
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Being Creative with gapingvoid
You may know gapingvoid from Hugh MacLeod’s “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards“. Now he’s telling us How To Be Creative. So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever. Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years: You are responsible for your own experience. Everybody…
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Writing a Novel – The Snowflake Method
I’ve started writing a novel. I don’t have ideas of grandeur or dreams of retiring from novel royalties; I write because I enjoy doing so and because I find it therapeutic. Still, it’s nice to produce legible prose and to do so requires at least a bit of forethought.That’s where The Snowflake Method comes into…
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How (and Why) to Nap
How to Nap is an informative graphic from The Boston Globe detailing how we should nap effectively during the day. Power naps enhance memory consolidation is an accessible article on why we should nap, drawing on research from Harvard Medical School’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory. via Neurophilosophy
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100 Items or Less
No, it’s not the new checkout lane at the supermarket, but Dave Bruno’s purging goal (summary): And honestly, it is difficult to purge. What goes? That is a hard decision. But I have an idea. A spontaneous idea that might change my life forever. I’m calling it the 100 Thing Challenge. And I’m taking it.…
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Y Combinator and Starting a Startup
Y Combinator is a seed-stage startup venture capital firm with a refreshingly novel outlook on venture capitalism. Their Startup Library provides a wonderful selection of links to stories, articles, and many other resources. Be careful; once you start thinking about going ‘startup’ you’re likely not to go back for a long, long time.