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Productivity in an Age of Working From Home

Productivity in an Age of Working From Home
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How is your work counted? I mean, literally? In the United States anyway, full-time work[1] has been traditionally split between exempt and non-exempt employment. The exemption here is referring to overtime pay; that is, whether an employee is eligible…

Productive Enough

Productive Enough
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I've done my fair share of productivity evangelism over the years. Heck, only a few months ago, I espoused the virtues of establishing personalized workflows; not necessarily because they're universal panaceas to overwhelming information, but more…

Toolin' for Reducin' Cognitive Overhead

Toolin' for Reducin' Cognitive Overhead
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Productivity and self-help is a pretty major literary genre, both in blog post form as well as published books and articles. Over the years, I've written numerous times about various systems I put together to make myself productive:…

To Wiki is to Explicitly Organize

To Wiki is to Explicitly Organize
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I've spent an unhealthy amount of time and effort trying out various note-taking apps. In fact, I've chronicled some of those migrations on this blog—more as a warning to avoid wasting the effort of jumping…

Appreciation for Spreadsheets

Appreciation for Spreadsheets
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The managerial stereotypes aren't far off the mark. I hate to admit it, but the vast majority of the time spent managing software engineers—when not synchronously communicating with people in-person—is asynchronously communicating with people through emails…