The following is a short guest post by my friend Kemp Edmonds. I’ve known Kemp for a few years (we met at a Vancouver freelance event0 and I asked him if he’d be willing to offer up a post during my travels. He was more than happy to — and he’s also offering up some […]

I’m still in travel mode, so I’m still offering guest posts over the next couple of weeks on a regular basis. Today’s guest post is by Christopher Mackay. I met Christopher during his time spent in Victoria, where we discovered that we had a mutual love of productivity tools, systems and tech — something that’s

I needed a day to collect these thoughts into something not just comprehensive, but comprehensible. This event has a way of making you want to explain all of its marvel, but also has such a profound effect that it makes it tough to put all of it into words – at least words that are

In the nursery rhyme “Jack Be Nimble”, have you ever noticed that speed comes up after agility? “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over The candlestick.” I don’t think that it comes first just because it would otherwise screw up the rhyme. I think it’s because being nimble is more important than being

Today is, for the most part, a travel day for me as I prepare to head off to this year’s World Domination Summit in Portland. So rather than offer you something of my own here today, I’d like to highlight a series written by my good friend Raul Pacheco over at his Hummingbird604.com weblog. Raul may

To celebrate the 4th of July holiday, I’m featuring a guest post today by a neighbour to the south…Mike St. Pierre. He is the President of Morris Catholic High School in Denville, NJ.  He writes about productivity at www.thedailysaint.com and can be followed on Twitter, @thedailysaint.  Mike lives with his wife and four children in

I rarely post twice per day anymore, let alone post something that is simply there to lead to another story elsewhere. But this piece by Tim Kreider entitled The ‘Busy’ Trap from The New York Times resonated with me so much — especially considering what I wrote in my post from earlier today — that

Whenever you hear the word “many” on its own, it can be seen as generally positive or negative. Having many options is generally good. Having many chores is generally not (more so if you’re not a fan of chores). But when you put the word “too” in front of “many”, there’s not nearly the amount

The following is a guest post by Patrick Rhone. Patrick is the author of several books, including enough and his most recent work, Minimal Mac: What We Believe In. I’ve long been a fan of his writing and podcast (which is on the same network as Mikes on Mics), and I was very excited when