As I continue to work on my book 1 and my other daily responsibilities as a father, husband, editor, podcaster and writer, there’s nothing quite like a bit of a lifestyle shakeup that results in a change of my workflow strategy. Nothing quite like it at all. In recent weeks, I’ve gone from a ton
I’ve been using Asana for quite some time now, and with all of the active development it has going on it is reminding me of how Evernote does things. In fact, I’ve been using Evernote more lately as well, meaning that a large chunk of my productivity lives in Asana and Evernote. Evernote is housing
As I was driving my daughter home from swimming lessons today, we saw several folks wearing Vancouver Canucks jerseys walking down the street. There is a big game tonight, one that pretty much spells the end of the Canucks’ season should they lose. I pointed the gang of jerseyed people out ot her and she
I’ve been walking away from a lot of things lately. First it was ProductiVardy. Then it was Dyscultured. I’ve even walked away from paying writing gigs so that I can work better at the things that matter most to me in both my work and my life. That brings me to the thing that brought
The Pomodoro Technique has been around for a long time, and it has many devout followers. For those of you unfamiliar with this time management/productivity technique, here it is broken down into its basic steps: Choose a task. Set a timer to 25 minutes. Work on the task until the timer goes off. Record the
The image you see above wasn’t what Google+ looked like at all the last time I used it. Google+ represents the company’s latest attempt to create a viable social network. And it looks as if they have succeeded – if only by sheer brute force. And (possibly) at the expense of what I’d call “pure”
I’ve been a pretty early adopter when it comes to social networking platforms. I was in on Twitter early, have been an avid Facebooker and have used all things in between. I have been going to Tweetups for as long as I can remember. And I enjoy dabbling in online social activity. That’s because I’m
I had the pleasure of meeting (and hanging out with) Stephen Hackett of 512Pixels while at Macworld | iWorld earlier this year 1, and he just released his first eBook, Bartending: Memoirs of an Apple Genius. Mind you, he released it a couple of days early, so I suppose one can consider it an Easter egg
I had the opportunity to meet Brett Terpstra at Macworld | iWorld, and we had some pretty great conversations in the brief time we had to chat. Since I’d been using Markdown for a while, I’d become more familiar with his work than ever before — and when I got the chance to try out
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