Doc Searls has a very convincing argument as to why collaboration is better when developing ideas, with a list of ten ideas about ideas. Doc is a major member of the Linux community and very fond of the Open Source movement, so it’s no surprise most of his list gravitates toward the thinking that ideas ...
November 2006
Grant at DownloadSquad thinks that Gmail is the best thing since sliced bread. He even states that it may have in fact saved his life! (Or at least 10 hours per month). I would have to agree… I switched from Yahoo! Mail Beta to Gmail mainly because of the conversation-style threading, and have never looked ...
TimeSavingsExpert.com has linked to an ancient post (by blogging standards- over 1 year!) that shows a study on the cost of interruptions and distractions among office workers. The result: Scary. Each employee spent only 11 minutes on any given project before being interrupted and whisked off to do something else. What’s more, each 11-minute project ...
Jeremy Miner’s got a great method for feeling the satisfaction of completing a task. Instead of throwing the used notecards away, he stabs them. After I complete the tasks on a given card, I gleefully impale the card on the spindle. There’s a profoundly visceral satisfaction that comes with stabbing a completed task through the ...
The internet is a beautiful place. You can learn anything for free, and it speeds up our productivity considerably. However, as more people start using broadband connections and new technologies, it’s much easier to become bombarded with information. Emails, blogs, forums, IM, etc… pretty soon you’re spending the bulk of your day managing those inputs. ...
