Posts Tagged ‘productivity’
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11 Sep, 2024
Popcorn Style – Meetings that make you smile.
Source: Popcorn Style – Meetings that make you smile. There’s so much greatness on display here. Popcorn Style is a tool for running standups in a way more efficient and fun way! Here’s why I love it: Respect: we need […]
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23 May, 2024
Be gone, vile rectangle!
One day I’ll fulfill my dream of throwing my phone into the ocean*, but for now I’m settling for throwing my phone in my basement. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt articulates how the potent combination of smartphones and social […]
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08 Mar, 2023
Some tools to help me focus
I’m terrible at focusing. I flit around from task to task like a goddamn hummingbird, never stopping too long on one thing to make too much progress. Flow state? More like “no state”, amirite? I’ve got many legitimate things contributing […]
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16 Feb, 2022
Working Better: Interview with web designer Brad Frost – Noisli
Here’s a pretty candid interview I did about how I do a shit job of taking care of myself and my wellbeing. But I’m working on it! Ever feel like you wish you had more time in the day? Guess […]
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05 Jan, 2022
Quick Tip: Peacock VS Code extension
As a consultant who works in many client codebases, I love the Peacock VS Code extension because I can apply my clients’ brand colors to the editor UI. It really keeps my head screwed on straight since I’m often working […]
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01 Mar, 2021
Notion Habit Tracking: Update 2
I wrote about how much I love Notion and I’ve been keeping track of my healthy habits using the tool. Keeping up with new years resolutions and forming new habits requires consistency above all else. When things start slipping, it’s […]
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04 Feb, 2021
Notion Habit Tracking: Update 1
I recently wrote about how much I love Notion and have been using it to stay on top of my personal and professional life. One of the things I’ve been using Notion for is to track my progress on healthy […]
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14 Jan, 2021
Squarknote #5 – Squarknotes
This is a super impressive productivity workflow from Susan Fowler, and it’s amazing to see how being thorough and disciplined can yield big results. I have a far less thorough version of this that I’d like to write up. Some […]
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06 Jan, 2021
Slowly Falling In Love With Notion
This post is a long time coming. I’ve been using Notion since 2017, but it’s been a slow journey to get to a point where I can say that our relationship is official. Notion is now an invaluable tool for […]
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23 Apr, 2020
Low-Challenge, High-Skill Tasks in Terrible Times
This is really good stuff from Dave exploring work, mental health, and productivity in these surreal times. Depending on your situation, work still needs to happen… but it’s going to look different. Your core needs are different. Don’t feel pressure […]
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14 Feb, 2020
Deep Work Update #3
I just got a fantastic year-in-review breakdown from RescueTime that showed how I spent my (screen) time in 2019. It gave me some really insightful and beautiful data visualizations like this: Aside from the depressing realization that 30% of my […]
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15 Dec, 2019
Group Chat, Group Stress
This is the in-depth teardown of group chat that I’ve been missing in my life. It details all the reasons I don’t fully love Slack. I’m going to share this with my team — on Slack — to see how […]
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09 Dec, 2019
Subtract | Derek Sivers
The least successful people I know run in conflicting directions, are drawn to distractions, say yes to almost everything, and are chained to emotional obstacles. The most successful people I know have a narrow focus, protect themselves against time-wasters, say […]
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09 Dec, 2019
Basecamp’s chat sucks
This post speaks to me. My argument is Slack is ruining the culture of a remote, distributed, calmup. One could put rules. People should only use Slack for chat-ops, notifications, and emergencies. Would that help? Would it help people avoid […]
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03 Sep, 2019
A Year of Working Remotely
This is a fantastic post breaking down the pros and cons of working remotely. If I had more time I’d love to go point by point through the post, but I’ll say I absolutely love working remotely. I may be […]
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05 Apr, 2019
The realities of Deep Work: What happened when designer and author Brad Frost scheduled every minute of his day
The folks over at RescueTime interviewed me about my decision to schedule every minute of my day. I’ve really benefitted from establishing some rigor to my schedule. Here’s what I have to say a few months in: “After playing it […]
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13 Feb, 2019
Time for Happiness
This article as well as a whole slew of others all seemed to come along at the same time, and they’re all hitting me at a particularly interesting time in my life. I’ve spent the last 6 years grinding really […]
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19 Nov, 2018
Deep Work Update #2
A few weeks ago I made the decision to schedule every minute of my day, and so far so good. A few people have asked me for an update so I figured I’d share one. While my productivity score was […]
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05 Nov, 2018
Deep Work Update
Last week I made the decision to schedule every minute of my day, and wanted to share a quick update. In short, this is working out very well for me so far. A few accomplishments: I coded every day – […]
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07 Jun, 2018
How To Ask For Advice Over Email
Holy shit I think I need to add this to my contact page. When I redesigned my site, I redesigned the contact page to make the user do a bit of work to get my contact info. It sounds counter-intuitive, […]
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12 Apr, 2018
Productivity
Finally, to repeat one more time: productivity in the wrong direction isn’t worth anything at all. Think more about what to work on.
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15 Jun, 2017
The Road to Burnout is Paved With Context Switching
Sophie wrote a great post about a pretty major source of stress: context switching. Having a lot of work on my plate is fine. Meeting deadlines is fine. Planning long term projects is fine. Debugging code is fine. Writing detailed […]
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19 Mar, 2017
Zeroing the desk
I absolutely love this from the brilliant Brendan Dawes: After a recording session on one of those large mixing desks, after you’ve twiddled countless knobs and push around many faders you do something called zeroing the desk. This is were […]
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27 Feb, 2017
The Breakout Email Management System
Wes Bos wrote a great post about how he deals with email. I especially I love his advice about getting to the source of why you’re getting so many emails. If you get the same email more than three times, […]
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24 Jan, 2017
Don’t Shit Where You Eat
There’s a reason why offices don’t have gigantic screens blasting 24-hour cable news all day. No one would get anything done, fist fights would break out, and there’d be an uptick in the number of heart attacks happening around the office. For a whole […]
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16 Nov, 2014
Email Workflow
Earlier this year Matt Griffin wrote a great piece on how he deals with email, and he explains how he sets up rules for himself to make email a little more bearable. I like Matt’s approach, and of course everyone’s […]