1. Host your own images The first and most obvious is that if you hotlink from someone else’s site, you have no control over if that image stays on the web. If they shut their site down, the image is gone and you have a broken image link in your post. And I also recommend [...]
Tagged Blogging, How ToFocus on doing one thing at a time.
Tagged Focus, ProductivityI do this frequently enough on my other blog, but I don’t really do it that much around here, despite being a huge Copycheater. It’s time for a Link Roundup! Productivity Zen Habits: Take Lots of Breaks – I actually try to do this when I find that I’m trying to do too many things [...]
Tagged Brain Health, Copycheating, Hulu, Link Roundup, Productivity, Zen HabitsI’ve said it before (and by said, I mean written), and I’ll say it again: Multitasking Doesn’t Work. In Brain Rules, John Medina points out that the brain cannot multitask: We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously. I like the specificity of that sentence and how it gets the point across in so [...]
Tagged Getting Things Done, Lateral Action, Multitasking, Productivity, Task SwitchingMusical Accompaniment: Chain Gang – Sam Cooke There is a site called Don’t Break The Chain based on the Seinfeldian wisdom that if you a) have daily task, and b) mark days on a calendar in which you completed that task, you c) build up a chain on the calendar that you don’t want to [...]
Tagged DontBreakTheChain, Getting Things Done, How ToNo, that’s not a typo. This tip has seriously saved me hours since I started using it. Choose (and Remember) Great Passwords. You don’t need to remember 100 passwords if you have 1 rule set for generating them. One way to generate unique passwords is to choose a base password and then apply a rule [...]
Tagged Getting Things Done, Lifehacker, PasswordsI don’t know how this is going to work once we start Waving everybody, but for now, this is how I populate my To Read List without using Delicious or Instapaper or {Your App Here}, but rather with a tool that requires no additional sign-ups: Email. Okay, I lied a little. You’ll need an RSS [...]
Tagged Getting Things Done, Gmail, Google Reader, iPhone, Offline Apps, Productivity, To ReadThere are two things that will probably make me seem borderline obsessive-compulsive, but really, I just count them as a couple of those things that, once they become habit, save you from having to actually think about them. 1. I always put my wife’s food on the right (because I’m left handed, so I get [...]
Tagged Getting Things Done, Lifehacker