Helping Creative People Create

July 2007

If you like shopping at Amazon but hate the massive amounts of links, pictures, and raw data on their homepage, than Uncluttr is for you. If that reason alone doesn’t at least pique your interest enough to visit the site, then there’s more.  Uncluttr donates a portion of your purchase to CarbonFund, which offsets the ...

Web Worker Daily has an interesting piece on how Facebook could be a killer app for working professionals. I gotta say, I agree wholeheartedly. With my own experience, Facebook is becoming my defacto way of keeping in touch with literally almost everyone I know. They have an elegant site that without much imagination (and especially ...

Now here’s something a little different than what you might normally hear concerning productivity and task lists. The David constantly states that during the GTD sweep, it’s imperative that we throw away our crusty old tasks, projects, and even contexts once they’re spent. The guys at Behance have a different idea. Instead of tossing away ...

Tim Ferriss has got the mobile lifestyle down.  The guy can just up and leave anytime he wants to, and make it look effortless.   Tim claims a key factor to this mobile lifestyle is his tenacity for minimalist packing. The above picture shows what we’re talking about. The main component to Tim’s packing is that ...

10 Essential Habits for Freelance Workers “The key, I’ve found, is to develop certain habits that will keep you not only disciplined but successful. Simple habits, to be sure, but ones that can go a long way towards taking you from a broke freelancer to a happy and productive one.” How to Make Smart Decisions ...

  Psychology Today has an article giving some insights into the mind of your average procrastinator.  Aside from some very interesting facts on the condition (did you know that procrastination is bad for your health? Or that procrastinators drink more?), it also points to a problem that many people have, procrastinators or not. Email.  Not surprisingly, an achilles ...

There is a post on Found | Read that chronicles an entrepreneur who is so busy he doesn’t even make time for lunch.  His idea of a vacation is to do a round-the-world conference circuit so he can actually get out of the office.  This guy sounds like a go-getter on steroids.  It’s this “work ...

Just a heads up that Nude Recreation Week is coming up this July 9-15, and according to the American Association for Nude Recreation and The Naturist Society, there is an upswing of people working at home in the buff. I wonder how this affects productivity… Hat tip: WebWorkerDaily

Mother Jones has a pretty interesting list of facts concerning Americans and organization.  There are many little gems, like Men who own Palm Pilots are 4 times more likely to forget their wives’ birthdays than men who don’t. Where do they come up with this stuff?  Regardless, if you read the entire list, you’ll start ...

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