‘Tis the season…for commencement addresses. And after seeing some popping up on the Internet over the past couple of weeks (ones by Neil Gaiman and Aaron Sorkin come to mind immediately), I have been given the opportunity to publish one myself as Robert Greenberg drafted a clever version of what would be Ludwig van Beethoven’s commencement address, given at Salzburg A&M […]
As I continue to use Asana on my Macbook Air, it has become more apparent that the lack of a native mobile app is a huge detriment to my productivity. It appears as if Asana isn’t the only one lagging behind in the mobile game, as my Lifehack colleague CM Smith pointed out his woes
Dear Mr. Jacobs AJ,1 I’ve always been a big reader of non-fiction books. Heck, I talk about productivity to the point where I have dubbed myself (as well as others who do the same) as a “productivityist” and have even gone so far as to have written a manifesto for folks like me. My wife, however, tends
Over the next two months, I’ll be taking some time to wrap up some projects and hitting events like BlogWorld, Northern Voice and taking a little time off to go Whistler to watch my wife take part in the insanity known as Tough Mudder. But unlike what I’ve done in the past — which is
This isn’t going as well as I’d hoped. In fact, I’ve fallen off the plan from last week. I am — most definitely — struggling with this. I have been getting up at 8 a.m. every day (which is “good enough” while we still have in-home child care), but as of the second week in
I’ve composed plenty of “How I” posts here, but I’ve never really talked about things from an overarching perspective. Yes, I’ve discussed the various ways I have – and do – plan, as well as the ways I don’t plan. But I’ve never really gotten into how I work my plan in terms of my
Yep, he sure does. That said, it’s not as packed as mine. This week on Mikes on Mics, our guest Stephen Hackett of 512pixels.net and numerous other web portals (including a couple of podcasts over at the same 70Decibels network where our podcast resides) offers up the contents of his Applications folder. You can check
This was the first thing I heard today, so rather than write anything of my own I thought I’d share the words with you. These are the lyrics from the song “Change Your Mind” by the band Sister Hazel, a song that is always close at hand for me…and might be a good one for
Stuff. Things. To-dos. They are all on our plates…every day. Some are big, some are small. Some are project-sized, some are bite-sized. Some have been started but not finished…yet. Some have been started and will never be finished. When you have too much of these “somes”, then you had best keep an eye on them.
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