Business-model. IgniteNYC: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Scrip. I recently gave a talk at IgniteNYC on How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script. The Ignite events are a fun blend of performance, technology, and speaking skill. Each presenter gives a five minute talk with twenty slides that auto-advance after 15 seconds. The title of my talk is a classic geek reference (you can get the t-shirt). I’m very interested in developing automated techniques for handling the massive and growing amounts of information that we all have to deal with.
In the talk, I went through several of the simple and successful e-mail management scripts that I’ve developed. I decided to talk about this project because I’m not sure where this should go next, but I got some great feedback and I’m looking forward to future work on the project! The slides are below, and the full talk will be online soon.
Structured procrastination. Author practices jumping rope with seaweed while work awaits. I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I finally found some uncommitted time? Wrong. I have papers to grade, textbook orders to fill out, an NSF proposal to referee, dissertation drafts to read. Structured procrastination means shaping the structure of the tasks one has to do in a way that exploits this fact. The most perfect situation for structured procrastination that I ever had was when my wife and I served as Resident Fellows in Soto House, a Stanford dormitory. Procrastinators often follow exactly the wrong tack. At this point you may be asking, "How about the important tasks at the top of the list, that one never does?
" The trick is to pick the right sorts of projects for the top of the list. Another example is book order forms. The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity - pmarca *ARCHIVE* - b. Get Less Done: Stop Being Productive and Enjoy Yourself. Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. There’s too much emphasis these days on productivity, on hyperefficiency, on squeezing the most production out of every last minute. People have forgotten how to relax. How to be lazy. How to enjoy life. Try this: read some of the best books, magazines and blogs on productivity, and see how many will tell you how to get the most out of the time you spend waiting, how to maximize your energy, how to make use of your commute time, how to make every meeting more effective, how to get more out of your workday, how to crank out more widgets.
People are working longer hours, constantly checking their inboxes, constantly focused on Getting More Done. But to what end? Are we producing more in order to make more money for corporations? It’s possible we’re trying to get more done because we love doing it — and if that’s the case, that’s wonderful. Let’s take a brief look at how to do that. My answer: “Enjoy it!” It’s how I work every day. Some steps: How to Get Things Done with Jott - Lifehack.org. I first tried out Jott last year, and was really impressed with what it could do. You call their number, say something into the phone, and it sends it as a text message back to you. And it works — aside from a few odd names and strange words, its transcriptions are pretty much spot on. Apparently they run your voice message through a speech-to-text engine and then run it by a human operator for double-checking. However they make it work, it’s pretty slick. But I couldn’t figure out much to do with it at the time.
In the last few months, though, Jott’s introduced their Jott Links service, which allows you to use Jott to add items to your todo list, send messages to other people, even blog using their service. All it takes is a little set-up, first in your Jott account, then on your phone, and you can start Jotting things to any number of online services. First things first: send yourself a message Sign up for a Jott account. Send yourself a reminder Call Jott. Login to your Jott account. Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm (reddit.com) 70 Ways to Increase Your Brain Power. 28. Creatine. This is a compound found in meat, used by athletes to help build muscle. Now the evidence is here to show that it helps your brain as well. Proceedings B , a journal published by the Royal Society reports that the research showed improvement in working memory and general intelligence resulting from creatine supplementation. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45. 46. 49. 50. 51. 52. 54. 57. 58. 60. 61. 63. 64. 66. 69.
By Steve Gillman. A Book of Secrets How To Read Minds, Save Money, Boost Brainpower, Get Lucky, See The Real News, Find Treasure, Subliminally Persuade People, Buy Real Estate With No Money Down - And That's Just The Beginning! Geek to Live: Top 10 free and cheap produ. Ten levels of productivity | Rants and Apps. These ten things help me to get the most productivity out of myself as a programmer, and I would bet that most of these things also apply to almost every single programmer. If you are my boss, colleague, head of R&D, CTO, head of HR, CEO, or anyone who is working with me or want me to work for you, these 10 things should be in order to maximize my productivity. I like to think that my productivity decays exponentially every time when one of these things cannot be fulfilled. When three or more of these things are not true, my productivity drops to the level of an average programmer These are not in any particular order, because they are all really important and productivity cannot be accurately measured. 1.
Every time I get a chance to work with new or interesting technology, I want to learn as much as possible about the technology as quickly as possible. Example : Once upon a time I got a chance to port a software for Sony PSP. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. My personal favorite at the moment : Lua. More workers are choosing fear over flex time, experts say - CNN. Unemployed people attend a New York job fair. Workers are becoming more afraid to take flex time. Fewer employees are taking flex timeFear is driving workers' decisions, experts sayWorking long hours at office is overrated, some sayWork-life expert: "Some of the most unproductive people are in the office by 7 a.m.
" (CNN) -- Out of sight. Out of mind. Out of a job? That's the grim scenario lurking in the minds of a growing number of American workers whose anxieties are driving a curious trend, workplace experts say. Companies are offering employees more chances than ever to work at home or outside their office through "flex time. " The reason is simple: fear, says Sylvia Ann Hewlett, president of the Center for Work-Life Policy. a New York-based company that promotes flexible schedules for workers. Most employees feel there is more pressure than usual to be in the office, Hewlett says.
Choosing fear over flex time Blame it on the recession, Hewlett and other workplace experts say.