I take it that a few people thought the point of my last post was to suggest that people should quit their jobs. Perhaps it’s the point in which I come out […]
Knowledgework
To Embrace Greatness, Embrace Failure: 21 Tributes to Failure
Here’s the deal: You’re smart. You’re creative. You know what you’re doing. But you’re scared as hell of failing and making mistakes. Maybe it’s because you’ve been so damned good at whatever […]
The 4 Steps of the Creative Process
“I’m not creative.” “I wish I could be more creative, but I don’t have it in me.” “Why are some people creative and others aren’t?” If I had a nickel for every […]
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 […]
How to Stifle A Good Idea
Or: Why You’re Probably Not Using the Productivity Planners (This post is a case study in how to stifle a good idea, using my own products as an example. It ends with […]
The Return of Productivity (via Merlin Mann)
This post is only tangentially about productivity. It’s completely about giving credit where credit is due and supporting the reemergence of someone whom I admire. I also said that I’d be profiling […]
When Selling Gets in the Way of Sharing
There has historically been a bias against money-makers among intellectuals. Being an academic, I inherited this bias without really thinking about it. It’s only recently that I began thinking about it again […]
Is the Internet killing Academia?
Dustin @Lifehack has pointed out that the model for personal productivity that I proposed yesterday seems to be an academic model. While I see where he’s coming from, I think there’s a […]
Follow-up: Lifehack: Personal Productivity in the 21st Century
I commented (again) on Dustin’s article Personal Productivity in the 21st Century over at Lifehack. His question was regarding whether there is another model for personal productivity systems besides “cranking widgets.” I […]
Lifehack: Personal Productivity in the 21st Century
Dustin posted an article about Personal Productivity in the 21st Century over at Lifehack. I was going to comment on it on the blog, but my commentary got a bit long, so […]