Tag Archives: Productivity
About productivity in Ukrainian
A friend of mine, Alexander Babich, started a new blog about productivity – ProductivyBlog.com.ua (in Ukrainian). I’ve been following another his another blog for ages and every so often I’ve learned about new useful tools and approaches, which changed the way I do things and changed for better.
If you understand Ukrainian this blog is well [...]
Multitasking kills
Did not I told you that multitasking is evil? Gauge your distraction to see it yourself!
Multitasking is like using “all seasons” tires: they drive equally bad in summer and in winter. When you multitask, all of your activities end with equally bad result.
Less is more
Some time ago I’ve posted a couple of ideas around productivity and distractionless computer environment. Since then I continue trying to optimize my computer experience here and there.
It is always interesting to know what ideas others have about problems you are thinking about. So it was very interesting for me to read how Leo [...]
Use time wisely
Could not resist posting this quote by Lee Iacocca:
“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or almost anywhere else for that matter.”
(via Happy-PM)
Productive time spans
Right now I’m really into staying focused on the things I need to accomplish. Most of my work time I spend at my computer and as you might have noticed from my recent posts I try to make it more rewarding experience.
If you are also interested in that you may benefit from rebooted 43 folders [...]
Full speed mode
A while back I wrote about using full screen to enhance your productivity and focus on the task you need to accomplish. But that is not enough – you need to get rid of blinking, screaming and beeping everything.
Here are a few recipes that I follow personally.
Most likely you use Outlook as I do. Outlook [...]
Full screen mode
I’m a huge fun of “Maximize it!” approach when it comes to use of computer screen real estate no matter how big the diagonal is. Initially it was because I could not stand wasting precious pixels. And now it has more to do with attention and concentration rather than anything else.
The idea behind this [...]
Erosion of ideas
I recently subscribed to TechCrunch and so far I noticed 2 things:
This blog literally chocks up my RSS aggregator (which happens to be Google Reader) so that I have to modify my reading habits not to miss posts from others feeds. Near dozen posts a day may be not that big number, but it definitely [...]
You vs. your inbox
On the average I receive from 50 to 200 e-mails in my corporate Inbox which I believe is not high number at all. Still despite of the techniques I use to keep my Inbox clean some e-mails need to be stored for reference for months in archive. As you might expect it is difficult [...]
Positives of negative New Year’s resolutions