Save two hours a day with this e-mail hack
E-Mail is maybe the biggest time suck in the working world. What if you could save 10 hours a week with one simple hack? Well, here it is. Continue Reading
Productivity
The fact that the ‘productivity app’ market has grown 150 percent in the past year is inherently ironic, right?
Was reading this article earlier today, and while the actual topic of the article is interesting — essentially, a company in Berlin made an app that makes the concept of a to-do list “fun” (although I’d argue a lot of… Continue Reading
What can a chef teach a businessman?
From an article that’s been popular on Harvard Business Review for the past week (and yet, depressingly, I feel no one with an office job will actually follow the advice of): If you’re working in the kitchen of Anthony Bourdain, legendary chef… Continue Reading
Brief thought exercise: could you go five days only checking e-mail 8-10 times?
Simple idea behind e-mail was to make our lives easier and more connected. It did that — you can fire off one line to a friend/business partner in Finland, and they can get it seconds later — but in the… Continue Reading
Did you know 89 billion business e-mails are sent in a given day? (Smashes face into desk.)
Look at that info-graphic and just weep. 89 billion business e-mails are sent per day. That’s a whole lot of “Got it, thx” or “Need that ASAP, plz.” Think about this: in 1995 or so, business e-mail wasn’t even a norm. Now… Continue Reading
Ultimate life hacks: flow and making tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge
I had an interview with 3M last year — if you’re not familiar, they invented the Post-It Note — and the interviewer says to me right off the bat, “Well, why do you want to work at 3M?” I wasn’t… Continue Reading