Helping Creative People Create

May 2007

Present Yourself! Do you feel that your strengths come across in your everyday interactions? Every meeting, phone call, email, and resume or portfolio sends a message of who you are and what you are about. (tags: behance stengths tips presentation)

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I just publicly launched PopDeal today, a tech deals aggregator. In layman’s terms, it collects all of the latest technology deals from around the web onto one page. I had previously launched PopDeal in another form before, but it turns out that it had a fatal flaw. It was crap. Yep, I built a crappy ...

If you’re like me, you find yourself more productive at certain times of the day. For some reason, it’s not always an easy thing to recognize without help. I say this with experience: It only took me 4 years to figure out I was working at the absolute worst time of the day for me. ...

As I’ve been trying to stick with my convictions on only allowing the absolute-smallest amounts of time to finish tasks, I’ve learned that the more you make of the time before each task, the more efficient you’ll be. Instead of finishing a task, taking your well deserved break, and coming back to a completely new ...

The past couple of weeks have been crazy.  We’ve added a couple new blogs around here, and the response has been pretty terrific.  The LifeDev community is growing, and is very vocal (as you can see by the amount of comments on some of the latest posts).  The awesome discussions being held on this blog ...

Why I Sometimes Choose Living Over Sleeping · The Cranking Widgets Blog – “I like knowing that when given the option between living life and a couple hours sleep, I almost always choose to live life.” David Seah : Scheming vs Collaborating – “It?s a pity that ?scheming? is almost universally associated with immoral behavior. ...

Ideas are a funny thing. I love getting them. As a serial entrepreneur, I’m always looking for the next thing. I’ve got my head in the clouds. I’ve had plenty of bad ideas, and a few good ones. But it wasn’t the fact that some of my ideas weren’t that great that killed them. It ...

10 Minutes has gotten a bad rap. While it may seem like an insignificant amount of time, 10 minutes can be very useful in productivity. Although there aren’t many projects that can get done in 10 minutes, you sure can get one started. As a matter of fact, I think that 10 minutes is way ...

In case you haven’t heard of Behance, they’re a company that offers productivity products for the unorganized, scatter-brained, head-in-the-clouds dreamers known as “creative types”. In short: You and Me. Well, I’ve just worked out a deal with the talented ladies and gents at Behance that gives LifeDev readers 10% off the final price of their ...