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On Vacations, Rest, All-Nighters and Planning
Workaholics will eventually kill long term team productivity. Lone wolf heroes on the permanent all-nighter schedule are toxic. Find your threshold. Go somewhere sunny. Or just go home for the day. Don’t pull your team down because you refuse to take a break.
breaks  vacation  work  creativity  culture  articles 
january 2010 by mattb
Create the Filter | Dustin Curtis
The only thing that matters to a company of any size is its product and customer experience. That's it. That's what creates value. The number and type of people who work at a company do not matter. The bureaucracy that develops to manage those people does not matter. The only thing that matters is what gets ultimately produced by the entire system of an organization. If you think of it this way, then you can't be influenced by the ridiculous inertia of political crap that has developed internally. If there are deficiencies in the product or experience that leads to decreased value for the customer, it’s because some part of the system is broken. So you fix the system in such a way that you cannot produce bad products or experiences. Those fixes might include things like a reduction in workforce, hiring more talented employees, or changing bureaucratic rules. It doesn't really matter as long as the product improves. But how to know when the product is improving?
design  essay  corporate  web  inspiration  quality  quote  blog  business  work  interface  culture  ux  entrepreneurship  idea  product  process  experience 
july 2009 by mattb
On Permanence
The problem is that when we’re in front of that blinking cursor, everything is so easily editable that we get caught up in do-mode. When we try to review things, we think, “oh, that’s an easy fix, so I’ll do it right now,” and instantly return to do-mode. We keep bouncing back and forth between the two without maintaining the proper altitude to see the bigger picture. To use the forest-from-the-trees analogy, it looks something like this:
permanence  do  gtd  design  blog  inspiration  work  article  tips  writing  organization  creativity  life  review  productivity  ideas  essay 
february 2009 by mattb
Time on your side
"I follow the 5-60 rule. If it takes less than 5 minutes, it’s a waste of time to even write it down. You should do it on the spot if possible. If it’s longer than an hour, it’s probably too big and needs to be split into smaller tasks. Otherwise, you’re going to skip over that 3-hour to-do every single time."
timemanagement  timetagging  lifehack  reference  inspiration  time  blog  designers  gtd  work  todo  tips  lifehacks  tagging  freelance  advice  ideas  reading  file  productivity 
february 2009 by mattb
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