I’m wondering if the lack of human intervention changes us a little bit on the inside. A little bit of seclusion never hurt anyone, but homeworkers deal with something completely different. I found this study that further confirms my suspicions: ”In-person contact stimulates an emotional reaction,” explains Lawrence Honig, a neurologist at Columbia-Presbyterian Eastside, a ...
Productivity
Just a quick note to let you all know that I’ve installed the Disqus commenting system on the blog. It’s a huge improvement in the fact that we can have threaded comments, avatars, and other nice cosmetic things. So give it a test drive and leave a comment below! Also, LifeDev has joined 9 Rules ...
This is part of the weekly series “Creatives Love…” which gives a satirical look at creative types. Creative types have lots of ideas. We pride ourselves in the fact that we are idea “hatchers”, the heralders of new ideas. It is the Creative’s ideas that spurn innovation and world change, and he knows this. Yet ...
Photo by *betenoir* Looking at the same boring things everyday can really stifle imagination and ultimately turn your brain into lifeless mush. (Well, it’s not that bad, but close.) Fortunately, the internet can help with this dilemma. By checking out sites that promote creativity, you can counteract the effects of having to look at the same ...
“I don’t have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.” – Ashleigh Brilliant It’s pretty common these days that I end up starting projects without knowing what the solution is going to look like. As a matter of fact, it’s how I prefer to go about working on projects. It’s stimulating and challenging, and ...
photo credit: -Kj. Post written by Francis Wade of the 2Time Management System blog. Designing your own time management system? It’s right up there with discovering how to perform cold fusion, just harder. Yet, this is what millions of working professionals have done around the world, without a single drop of help. Perhaps they read ...
photo credit: Irina Souiki This week I’ve been trying something new. Instead of making a todo list for the day and hammering out as many items as I can before the 5 ‘o clock whistle, I’m participating in what I like to call “Binge Productivity”. In a nutshell, Binge Productivity is working productively on whatever ...
Post written by Albert van Zyl from the blog HeadSpace. The lives of great people give us interesting clues about how to organise our days. All of them attached great value to their daily routines. This is because they saw it as being part of ‘becoming who they are’, as Nietzsche puts it. For the ...
I’d like to take this opportunity to ask you guys what your organizational setup is. How do you get stuff done? Are you into paper or digital tools, or both? A disciple of GTD? Or do you have your own home-brewed setup? Basically, just describe your organizational flow in the comments below. I’m curious to ...
Photo by dead_squid GTD is pretty much the de facto organization system of the web. (If you don’t know anything about the little system that David Allen made famous, then check out the GTD Cheatsheet, a mini-series to whet the palate of those not privy to GTD.) The Getting Things Done system has taken the ...
