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The loss of ambient intimacy – Baldur Bjarnason
"Ten thoughts on the problem with Twitter and why my life improved by escaping planet Twitter." Damn good stuff from Baldur.
blogosphere  twitter  psychology  productivity 
september 2011 by epersonae
Coding Horror: Nobody's Going to Help You, and That's Awesome
interesting perspective, turns out the book in the post is available as an ebook from the library.
ebook  productivity  psychology 
august 2011 by epersonae
Postcards from Space
"In recognition of your [hard work / untimely death] on [Name of Recent Project], an Advanced Confectionery Positive Reinforcement Facilitative System has been placed in the Production Break Area."
funny  productivity  science 
july 2011 by epersonae
how to stop drowning in your notes & make them useful instead | Let's Radiate
sort of a GTD for conferences, books, etc. I should do this.
productivity 
july 2011 by epersonae
Managing the Chaos of a Thousand Voices - Technology Review
The key, according to Buytaert, is to create an environment where "everyone is a leader and a follower at the same time."
drupal  productivity 
march 2011 by epersonae
Seldom a love story: IT and end users - O'Reilly Radar
"Prioritization must be determined by the business, not an IT staffer who's just trying to do the right thing."
productivity  misctech 
march 2011 by epersonae
CSS organization tip 1: Flags | stopdesign
I'm totally using this now.
css  productivity 
february 2011 by epersonae
Todolist | drupal.org
productivity  drupal  module 
february 2011 by epersonae
10 Easy Ways to Show Your Employees You Love Them
not big on #5 (would rather not be "friended" by bosses) but otherwise some good suggestions
psychology  productivity 
february 2011 by epersonae
focus booster - home; try the pomodoro technique
productivity  to-do 
december 2010 by epersonae
The Pomodoro Technique™
productivity 
december 2010 by epersonae
Launchlist - Your one stop website checklist!
is the site ready?
reference  productivity  webdev 
october 2010 by epersonae
myTinyTodo - simple open source to-do list script written in PHP and jQuery
productivity  php 
october 2010 by epersonae
The new Campaign Monitor office - Blog - Campaign Monitor
I want to work someplace like this.
productivity 
august 2010 by epersonae
Dan Ariely » Blog Archive Back to School #1 «
"Even Skinner had a trick to counterbalance daily distractions" email = skinner box (and I've tried a variant of that trick, too. it helps a lot.)
psychology  blogosphere  productivity  misctech 
august 2010 by epersonae
So you want to hire a ninja, do you? | Mettaprogramming
"What if I told you that ninjas are just zombies with black bags over their heads?" (interesting little gender-tweak there in the middle, btw. blink & you might miss it.)
gender  psychology  productivity  misctech  webdev 
july 2010 by epersonae
The Google Pac-Man Time Suck: Best Marketing Ploy Ever? | The Atlantic Wire
"a few days after the media flurry, a pair of diligent thinkers have raised doubts about RescueTime's findings"
society  productivity  google  misctech 
may 2010 by epersonae
Personal Informatics Tools
productivity  reference 
may 2010 by epersonae
A List Apart: Articles: Habit Fields
surprisingly deep.
philosophizing  psychology  productivity 
may 2010 by epersonae
Congregar: Organize events easier
this one is good for just picking a day if you already know what time. (ie, board meeting is always at 7pm; picnic is always at 11am.)
productivity  reference  ena 
may 2010 by epersonae
NeedtoMeet - Find a Time to Meet
"Use Needtomeet's free and simple calendar to find a time that works for everyone." this one is nice if you need to pick both a day AND a time.
reference  ena  productivity 
may 2010 by epersonae
Writing Flow Chart by Daniel Heath | Script Frenzy
in which all paths lead to "write." unless you are dead.
writing  funny  productivity 
april 2010 by epersonae
Introverts Make Better Networkers
"Simply put they are more deliberate. Introverts are more likely to look for relationships that are mutually beneficial."
psychology  business  productivity 
april 2010 by epersonae
3quarksdaily
delightful interview w/Merlin Mann.
productivity  philosophizing  writing 
april 2010 by epersonae
Preoccupations - The Art of 10 Years of Telecommuting - NYTimes.com
from "executive director of community operations at Edmunds.com"
productivity 
april 2010 by epersonae
Inbox Zero Badge for Greasemonkey
to-do  browsers  productivity 
april 2010 by epersonae
Make my rules and habits! | Ask MetaFilter
a bunch of good ideas
productivity 
april 2010 by epersonae
The 22 minute meeting « Scott Berkun
yes.
productivity 
march 2010 by epersonae
First, care. | 43 Folders
"as long as you know in your heart that what you’re making or doing matters" this has been key in my involvement (or lack) with the ENA in particular.
personal  philosophizing  productivity 
february 2010 by epersonae
WordPress › CollabPress « WordPress Plugins
curious.
wordpress  productivity 
february 2010 by epersonae
Moleskine Memo Pocket (Accordion File Folder) (3.5 x 5.5), MoleskineUS
gaming  productivity 
january 2010 by epersonae
The Printable CEO VIII: Day Grid Balancer
going to give this a try. it's a little fussy, but I like that sort of thing.
personal  productivity 
june 2009 by epersonae
PPMLite beta
neato9 Gantt chart stuff.
productivity 
june 2009 by epersonae
A List Apart: Articles: Burnout
all my web peeps should be reading this NOW.
psychology  depression  productivity  health  society  webdev 
may 2009 by epersonae
Welcome to the Mnemosyne Project | The Mnemosyne Project
"The Mnemosyne software resembles a traditional flash-card program to help you memorise question/answer pairs, but with an important twist: it uses a sophisticated algorithm to schedule the best time for a card to come up for review."
productivity  academia 
april 2009 by epersonae
reQall
"Use your voice, email, instant messaging, or text messaging. No other memory tool makes it as easy to capture, retrieve, and share ideas and things you need to do—anywhere, anytime." tempting.
productivity  personal 
april 2009 by epersonae
scottberkun.com » Things not to say - “We don’t have time”
"So to say We don’t have time to do X really means X is not important enough for me to use my time on it ." Which caused me to be embarrassed enough about not having done something that I went off & did it.
personal  philosophizing  productivity 
april 2009 by epersonae
Tracks :: index
am always looking for things that will help me be more organized!
productivity 
march 2009 by epersonae
Preoccupations - Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time - NYTimes.com
"I USED to be the disengaged participant — one who had good ideas about how to solve a problem or conduct a meeting, but didn’t contribute. I now take a more active role, aiming to make meetings more effective. Here are simple principles I use." A lot like the rules from the Manager Tools site, which is a good thing.
productivity 
january 2009 by epersonae
FreshBooks Pricing
(moped ought to be sufficient)
business  productivity  time-tracking 
december 2008 by epersonae
SitePoint » 4 Unique Apps for Tracking Time
harvest, rescuetime, freckle & bubbletimer
business  productivity  time-tracking 
december 2008 by epersonae
ProjectPier.org
"ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface." there's another open source basecamp clone (which I think I even have installed somewhere!) the name of which escapes me right now.
productivity  opensource  webdev 
october 2008 by epersonae
Rands In Repose: Horrible
"There’s a defining moment in your career when you choose to trust someone beside yourself."
psychology  productivity  philosophizing 
october 2008 by epersonae
Four Years | 43 Folders
"By 2007, an increasingly large number of mornings would find me staring, dead-eyed, at del.icio.us or Digg or reddit, feeling queasy as I wondered what possible role, how ever small, my stupid blog might have had in helping inspire 1,000 hucksters to try their hand at half-assing a living from pretending to help strangers — while providing their quarry an unapologetically infinite source of pointless procrastination in the bargain." also, continue on to part 2, in which there is (apparently) rebirth.
productivity  philosophizing  blogosphere 
september 2008 by epersonae
Marios Tziortzis » Blog » Setting up Mozilla Weave on your Server
clever, and potentially very useful.
browsers  productivity  webdev 
august 2008 by epersonae
On LEGO Powered Time-Tracking; My Daily Column - Better Software Development
I so totally want to do this. No, srsly, I'm gonna raid the Lego tub when I get home.
productivity  lego  weird 
august 2008 by epersonae
A List Apart: Articles: Walking the Line When You Work from Home
includes one of the more thoughtful comment sections of any recent ALA article.
productivity  business 
july 2008 by epersonae
The Old Joel on Software Forum - How do you store cables?
"Ziploc bags" -- just did that with the scary, scary cable drawer. (also, little cards to label which cable is in each bag)
home  productivity 
june 2008 by epersonae
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Office Supply Hacks
the recipe book is pretty genius. (could also be used for D&D?) and we've used binder clips as chip clips for years now.
productivity  home  kitchen  recipes 
june 2008 by epersonae
Bizarro: Salvation Army’s Special Forces
heh.
funny  productivity  home 
june 2008 by epersonae
Workspace: Defrag Your Office for Increased Efficiency
nice conceptualization. this weekend we cleaned out a bunch of drawers.
productivity  home 
june 2008 by epersonae
The Five Stages of a Product’s Life: Saving You Money on Replacing Expensive Household Items | Punny Money
Stage 5: "Your car just exploded. A lot." heh.
money  productivity  reference 
may 2008 by epersonae
Structured Procrastination
entirely. awesome.
funny  productivity  psychology 
may 2008 by epersonae
Feature: Analyze Your Email Usage with Mail Trends
ooh, this looks fun. I like charts!
email  google  to-do  pro  productivity 
april 2008 by epersonae
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ways to Sleep Smarter and Better
as I said on my friend Joe's blog, sleep deprivation is one of the scourges of western civilization.
health  psychology  productivity 
april 2008 by epersonae
Randy Pausch's Home Page
I watched/listened to the "Time Management" lecture twice today. Practical and yet moving.
productivity  reference  health  webvideo  to-watch 
april 2008 by epersonae
scottberkun.com » Lessons from 4 independent years
interesting, and surprisingly inspiring.
business  productivity 
april 2008 by epersonae
RescueTime: Web-based Time Management Software
fascinating, if also a little unnerving.
productivity 
march 2008 by epersonae
Geek | Manager » Principles of Project Management
new book by Meri. I'm about to check out the sample chapter.
productivity  webdev 
march 2008 by epersonae
Question your work - (37signals)
reasonable questions in almost any situation.
philosophizing  productivity  webdev 
march 2008 by epersonae
The Simple Dollar » Investing in Yourself: Feeling Good
too tired right now for any extra commentary.
depression  reference  to-read  health  inspiration  productivity 
february 2008 by epersonae
Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information
create an entry form that feeds a spreadsheet. very clever.
google  productivity  ena  webdev 
february 2008 by epersonae
Fix your finances in a day - MSN Money
more ideas -- as if I needed them! -- for what to do with a "Money Day"
money  personal  productivity 
january 2008 by epersonae
Money Day: Your Personal Finance Holiday ∞ Get Rich Slowly
money  personal  productivity 
january 2008 by epersonae
10 Steps to Create the Habit of Writing
I want to be a writer again.
inspiration  productivity  writing 
january 2008 by epersonae
Gmail: Empty Your Inbox with Gmail and the Trusted Trio
whoa. I actually got to an empty gmail box. of course, I also figured out that I have a metric ton of stuff to do for the ENA, but that's to be expected.
ena  productivity  personal 
january 2008 by epersonae
How to Kick Your Motivation into High Gear - Dumb Little Man
productivity  personal  reference 
january 2008 by epersonae
Good Experience - Winnowing the glut of todo list applications
I've got something that (mostly) works at work, but home is an entirely different story.
to-read  productivity  personal 
november 2007 by epersonae
A Roadmap to Spectacular GTD Failure
heh. my home life is my achilles' heel.
productivity  personal 
november 2007 by epersonae
3 Great Learning Strategies for Generalists – Jens Meiert
pretty decent suggestions. (having been a web generalist since before there were specialists. in my day, we had to layout 8 tables, both ways, in the snow.) and that reminds me of something....
academia  productivity  webdev 
november 2007 by epersonae
Monday Tip: How’s everybody doing?
this is actually a nice way to think about getting the temperature of a place.
personal  psychology  productivity 
october 2007 by epersonae
Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics « Web Worker Daily
I suck at estimating. There, I said it.
business  reference  productivity  webdev 
october 2007 by epersonae
Q&A: Step Away From the Keyboard (and Other Productivity Tips)
focus, don't multitask, eat well, sleep well, exercise, and change your "automatic thoughts" -- he calls it changing the stories you tell yourself, but the other way of putting it works for me. (go cognitive behavioral therapy!)
psychology  health  productivity  society 
october 2007 by epersonae
Hack Attack: Using Subversion with TortoiseSVN - Lifehacker
I finally got around to doing this on a project -- a bit of work to wrap my brain around it, but OMG I can't believe I haven't done this earlier!
productivity  webdev 
september 2007 by epersonae
Geek To Live: Rock Your Presentation with the Right Tools and Apps - Lifehacker
nice roundup.
productivity 
september 2007 by epersonae
Haiku Productivity: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential
an important component of therapy, for me, has been realizing that it's just not possible to do everything, and to do anything, you have to choose.
productivity  psychology  reference 
september 2007 by epersonae
How to Focus Your Mind on the Project
Nice compilation of the basics.
productivity 
september 2007 by epersonae
Rands In Repose: The Laptop Herring
"The problem is that everyone attending this laptop-laden clusterfuck is subconsciously hearing “Hey, in this meeting, it’s A-OK to waste people’s time.”" -- see also, ManagerTools' "effective meetings protocol"
productivity 
august 2007 by epersonae
The Freelancers Guide to Getting Into Flow
good tips for anybody needing to get into a flow state.
productivity  psychology  design  webdev 
august 2007 by epersonae
How to "Fail proof" Your Day and your Life - Dumb Little Man
ah, finding the keys....
productivity  personal 
august 2007 by epersonae
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