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Posts tagged with Productivity

A Sense of Accomplishment

A Sense of Accomplishment

Productivity is one of those ideals that is both aspirational and seemingly forever just out of reach. Like some others, I was initially elamored and motivated by the prospect of optimizing my own processes to squeeze out additional output, and…

The Mac's Super App

The Mac's Super App

Having been a Mac user now for 14+ years, I've really appreciated the evolution of the operating system over the last 1½ decades, at a time when the desktop has been superseded by mobile devices as the primary…

Productivity in an Age of Working From Home

Productivity in an Age of Working From Home

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

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

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

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…