April 7th, 2008
I was initially resistant about twitter, the micro-blogging service that has opened a new means of trivial communication across the net. I cannot say it has become an invaluable tool, but it is a valued accompaniment to my day.
For the past few days, and for no particular reason, I decided to de-twitterfy my life. I [...]
January 7th, 2008
Writer’s block can halt productivity for days or merely hours, but it can be broken with positive action and a deliberate motivation to do so and a few techniques. With the amount of writing I do by choice and out of work requirements these days, I need to churn out a lot of content each [...]
December 15th, 2007
It has been two weeks now since first using the Philips HF3461 Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock mentioned in this recent post, so I thought I would post a quick update.
So far, this device has changed my life.
Still waking with relative ease at 6-6.30 am each morning - including weekends. I’m coherent and productive within an [...]
December 8th, 2007
Dark winter mornings are anything but conducive to waking up feeling, well, awake. We all struggle through the winter, but some of us more than others. If you are like me and enter into a titanic battle in the search for morning coherence and the ability to do anything other than grunt for an hour, [...]
July 3rd, 2007
There’s a new tool in the box for writing these days - this post was compiled using it before being posted, and several other existing projects have been ported across. This new boy is called Scrivener.
I’m not entirely sure how this one slipped under both my and jEN’s radar as we are typically geeky in [...]
May 11th, 2007
I have a new productivity tool, it’s called the Mail.app Quit button.
Not only is email the most intrusive distractor of focused task completion, but it’s a grand excuse to choose not to focus. Control over tasks is about just that: control. A permanently open email client is anything but control. Emails pop in at any [...]