Buried
I’m back from vacation and dealing with a pile of backed up work and mounds of snow. Looking forward to catching a break next week and blogging. Lots of ideas to uncover!
Becoming a doer: 4 practical questions to get stuff done
To get stuff done, one needs to be pragmatic. There are 4 basic questions that help focus the mind on the practical: 1) what are the options, 2) what is the most practical choice, 3) Is this the most important thing right now, and 4) is this work worth my hourly rate.
A simple Mac backup strategy
They say there are only two kinds of people: those who have lost data and those who are about to. I find that a lot of very sophisticated people in software are in the second category. I am in the first. I thought I’d share my very simple Mac-based backup strategy that I’ve been using [...]
How I minimize distractions
It’s hard to be curious and focused at the same time. When I started my career, I was a disaster. A whole week could go by with little actual work getting done. Turns out it was OK: I was building my skills, and I saved myself by getting enough done that with time and the [...]
If you want to be productive
Don’t let others rob you of your own attention. Eliminate self inflicted distractions. (Unless it’s mind play time). Work hard to figure out what is important. It beats, hands down, working hard on the unimportant. Easier said than done.
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