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Spot Picking

Have you ever played the game Twister? It starts out easy, because you only need to pick one spot to place a hand or foot on. But as you are given more and more spots to pick, it gets progressively difficult. Never mind the fact you have to contort yourself — and try contorting yourself […]

How Stillness Works

I’ve only been in The Yukon for a little over two days, and I’m already noticing a difference. The main difference is that I’m noticing more.

Everyone is Edison: How the Internet Enables Creation

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

Reaction Time is a Factor

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

World Domination Summit 2012: The First Event I’ve Cried At (Twice)

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

Be Nimble, Then Quick

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

Managing Yourself

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

How to Avoid the Trap of Too Much Productivity

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

Too Busy

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