Het leven van veel mensen wordt bepaald door gewoonte en veiligheid. Daar is op zich niks mis mee. Gewoontes zorgen ervoor dat je niet over elke handeling na hoeft te denken. Ze maken je leven in veel opzichten makkelijker. En veiligheid is iets waar zo goed als iedereen naar streeft. Veiligheid is zelfs zo belangrijk dat de meeste mensen liever in een vervelende situatie blijven zitten dan iets te ondernemen dat die situatie kan veranderen. Wat je kent is meestal veiliger dan wat je niet kent. Maar als je teveel aan veiligheid en gewoontes hangt wordt je leven een sleur.

Onze 21e-eeuwse economie, ons werkend leven, is doordrenkt van het wantrouwen. Eerst een handtekening! Niet voordat jij... Hoe ga je dat aanpakken? Ik denk dat we dat ons niet langer kunnen veroorloven. Bovendien: veel van dat wantrouwen is volstrekt overbodig én contraproductief.

While the information about me on the Web is not terribly exciting, I do leave a little bit of information on every site I visit. And therein lies the rub. Say something in passing on a social site and it may come back to haunt you.

I tried a little experiment in 2008: living smaller. I caught public transport only. I got rid of extra lightbulbs. I baked my own bread. I froze my own dumplings. I didn't buy any gadget. I didn't buy any CD. I didn't get a flatscreen TV. No home phone; no home internet; no cable TV; no new art; no gin. I only took one international trip (which was quite important) and two domestic flights (to my dear parent's 80th birthdays) but turned down several work opportunities that involved flying, even though it meant less satisfactory participation at SC34 WG1. I let my passport lapse.

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Multitasking debunked on NPR: "People can't multitask very well, and when people say they can, they're deluding themselves," said neuroscientist Earl Miller. And, he said, "The brain is very good at deluding itself."

All known life on Earth is built upon carbon and carbon-based compounds. Yet the possibility has been discussed that life elsewhere may have a different chemical foundation – one based on the element silicon.

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.

Yesterday I came across a slightly mysterious website — a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. So, naturally

Just got an email from a high school student asking if I would recommend Berklee College of Music, as compared to taking a year off to travel the world. After givng some details about Berklee, I realized it came down to this: I have some easy rule-of-thum

Treat employees like adults, write less, minimize your information intake, be confrontational in presentations, how to run a meeting, and more...

In short, I can describe my GTD system in eight words. Make three lists. Revise them daily and weekly.

"(..) Wanneer je je dag begint met een taak die concentratie en aandacht vereist en die geen automatisme is, kom je in een vorm van ‘flow’ waardoor de rest van je dag ook veel productiever is. Kies de dag van tevoren zo’n taak uit en leg alles klaar

Accomplish anything you want: pick 5 priorities