Advice for procrastinators (in no particular order)

September 2nd, 2010 | Filed under: Thoughts | No Comments »

[Image: some lazy person]

Do dishes immediately after eating.
Soaking dishes for hours isn’t really doing dishes. Soaking with hot water for 5 seconds is remarkably effective.

Clean up your space regularly. Don’t wait for things to pile up.

Start things before you think you should.
Be ultra anticipatory.
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Simple productivity: three important tasks every day

August 26th, 2010 | Filed under: Thoughts | Tags: , , | 2 Comments »

It’s funny how seemingly unrelated areas of your life can suddenly converge on one idea.
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50 ways to overwhelm your readers

August 17th, 2010 | Filed under: Thoughts | Tags: , , | No Comments »

I see these types of posts everywhere these days. Bloggers collect Photoshop tutorials, jQuery plugins, CSS3 tricks, etc. and package them together into the “50 best [things] every web designer should know”.

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Taking back my productivity

October 1st, 2009 | Filed under: Thoughts | Tags: | 4 Comments »

I realized today that I have lapsed back into the habit of keeping gmail open so that I will know when I receive a new email. Why is this a problem? It leaves my productivity at the mercy of whoever feels the need to email me at any given moment. They are not in control of my inbox… I am!

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Writing for different crowds

August 5th, 2009 | Filed under: Thoughts | 2 Comments »

My dad told me he went to my blog last week, but he didn’t understand anything that I wrote. That’s a little disappointing to me, as I would love to write something that he would find interesting. However, I feel anything that would be would get lost among the rest of the things I would like to write about.

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Getting Things Done by David Allen

July 19th, 2009 | Filed under: Thoughts | Tags: , | 2 Comments »

I’m about 2/3 of the way through Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen. You know it’s a good book when it makes me want to DO things. Read more »