Stop Checking Email!

Odds are, if you’re reading this, you’ve probably checked your email a few times today. And I have a couple of questions for you: Why are you checking your email? What’s in there that will really make a difference to what you’re doing for the day? Take a second to think about your answers. If [...]

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The High Cost of Information

Seth wrote a post back in December that really touched a nerve on a ubiquitous problem that I see pop up nearly every day. His point was about the High Cost of Now – and his key insight: More than ever, there’s a clear relationship between how new something is and how much it costs [...]

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Create, Connect, and Consume

It’s really easy for independent creatives to fall into one of two traps: either being too critical about what we’re not doing or knowing that we need to do something but not quite being sure what we need to do. Either state is counterproductive. I’ll start with the first. One of the defining features of [...]

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Beyond Productivity: Living From the Inside Out (Episode 1)

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What’s the relationship between productivity and personal development? In Episode 1, Sara, Duff, Jonathan, and I talk about why there seems to be a disconnect between productivity and personal development, even though you can’t really separate the two. In this episode, you’ll hear… How productivity systems become less important when you’re doing things you [...]

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When A Cobbler Wears His Shoes…

Last week was a good week on the productivity front for me. You saw this as an increase in posts, but it was also manifested in my offline work. I’ve had a few people ask me what changed last week so I’ll answer for everyone. Although this is a walk-through of what I as one [...]

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How Creatives Make Money

Odds are, if you are reading this, you make money by leveraging your creativity. You write, design, create, or do something such that your ability to make money depends largely on your ability to be creative. I’ll pause and let that sink in for a minute. I said in passing last week that your productive [...]

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How to Remind Others Without Remembering to Do It

One of my bosses has a habit of telling me to remind him about something in a few days. Rather than ranting about why I have to be his psychic RAM or worrying about it, I’ve developed a way that let’s me follow-up with him without having to remember to do it. It works like [...]

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Using Paper to Scaffold Your Productive Motion

I’ve read two great posts this week that I’m going to tie together with some other thoughts I’ve been having. Thus, I’m violating the “one post, one topic” blogging wisdom – but bear with me as the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts. I’ve mentioned before that I started writing about [...]

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How Heatmapping Your Productivity Can Make You More Productive

Update: I decided to place the form at the top of the post to make it easier to download. Grab it here: I’ve been a bit bottlenecked recently with some of my posts. I’ve been stewing over A Special Theory of Productivity and trying to figure out the best way to present it. Meanwhile, another [...]

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