Pencils for notes, keyboards for ideas
TL;DR: “Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.” — Clive Thompson. When the late Iain Banks talked about the inevitable “where …
workflow
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 …
Work is the signal
I like this Tweet: “Work Is the Signal, Email Is the Noise”–@Wired — Erick Schonfeld (@erickschonfeld) January 22, 2014 Reminds me of Caroline Webb’s saying …
Outliner thinking
In this MIT Technology Review article about different writing and blog authoring tools – As We May Type – Paul Ford describes a tribe I wasn’t aware …
Thinking about Diigo (and some useful tips)
If there is one online tool that I would recommend anyone who thinks for a living, it’s Diigo. The new version of Diigo, launched a month …
Tools and distraction
Despite having at least four other devices with Kindle apps on them at any given moment at home or work, my reading weapon of choice …
Working fast and slow
Maria Popova blogged about a book called Reading Like a Writer – by the aptly named Francine Prose – that looks at the importance of reading …
Think of today as a prototype
Tim Brown of IDEO suggests we apply design thinking to our lives. Like any good design team, we can have a sense of purpose without …
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 talks about in relation …
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 theory, keep up with, but only …