How to effectively prioritize when work is infinite?
That’s one of the most important questions.
To get an answer to it, we need to achieve a state of clarity. I believe clarity is strongly tied to seeing…
You don’t want to do something.
The reasons may be manifold. They might be interesting, insightful. You could dig them up with 5 whys.
Let’s put them aside.
Start. Go wide, be creative, let your imagination run wild!Finish. Go narrow, put your head down, cut the useless mercilessly out.
Both are fundamental modes of work.
When an archer shoots, their feedback is hitting the target or missing it. What if a device attached to the bow beeped when the angle and direction would be just right? Hitting the target would be nigh certain.
The computer is an amazing versatile tool and also a time sucking machine.
A while back I decided to write by hand in the evening. I put my laptop out of my immediate line of sight (and thus out of mind), put on a chill remix and…
How many messages or emails do you read? How many are clear right away?
How many do you have to figure out?
In communication, we tend to commit the error of thinking the other person is like us. We think they know everything…
The moment you define a task, a timer starts running in your mind.
It measures if you did what you set out to do. It tracks if you are a doer. It only stops when something is dealt with.
Why do social media care so much about engagement?
Because sooner or later, engagement makes them money.
The more time you spent on a site, the more attached you get to it. The more you explore it…
Freedom is high on any person’s list of priorities in life, don’t you think?
But how free are we?
We let others constrain what we can do with their expectations and judgment.“Normal people don’t do this…”…
I was tinkering with a pet coding project today and started having doubts about it.
Should I put in the effort? Shouldn’t I do something else? Is it worth the time?