An inbox for the mind
This post comprises notes on a work in progress – a drive to reduce tech-based distractions and learn how to use personal technology help me get things do...
Tag: productivity
Keep on moving
Maybe we need to stop thinking of change as something that needs to be managed, an awkward event that comes along every few years and upsets everyone who was ge...
Neuroscience bringing work culture to its senses
Interesting video from the Financial Times – an interview with Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and coach who teaches at business schools. For those who care ...
A useful IFTTT recipe for blogging
A really useful piece of advice from Adam Tinworth about blogging is this: bring the inspiration or desire to blog as close as possible to actually blogging. Th...
Cognitive slipstreaming: Thinking is an endurance sport
* Updated * In endurance swimming, I found out this week, you slipstream* just like cyclists do in a peloton. My wife, a sea swimmer, told me that swimming clos...
If in doubt: Do
A post I read on The School of Life blog has really stuck with me the past day. Perhaps because it invokes Benjamin Franklin, whose framework for each day I blo...
Address powerful goodness
Benjamin Franklin’s day looked like this: Franklin’s structuring of his day like this reminds me of the “daily scaffold” Curtis James ta...
Tricking yourself out of information overload
According to Oliver Burkeman, informational overload is “suffused with irrationality”: There are millions of information sources we could, in theor...
The big lie of always-on, multi-tasking culture: “We think we’re thinking faster, but actually we’re slowing down.”
“We think we’re thinking faster, but actually we’re slowing down.” Caroline Webb, Partner at McKinsey & Co. Following on from my las...
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