You start off with a pile of work, and all you start doing is shovelling through them, you don’t stop, you just keep going and keep plowing through. You dig and you dig and you don’t stop digging. Then you’re partway there, the light is faint, but it is there. So you keep digging. And towards the end, you’re almost there, and then you decide to pull back, stretch, relax. And the worst thing you…
I have tried nearly every task app, and none of them work. None of them beat the cheapest coiled notebook that I can draw in, doodle in, scribble down tasks, and map out ideas. None of them works; none is more productive than that $3.99 notebook. And I can buy two, three, or four of them in different colours for fractions of the monthly cost for AI and any app. The Notebook is forever unbeaten.
Five years ago, we went through a big event that changed the world, where everyone had to work from home. During that time, we got to peek into what everyone’s perfect work environment looks like, and if you looked closely, one thing became incredibly apparent. What works for you does not work for me, and vice versa. Through that, we got to see where people are most productive at what they do. And yes, work…
Last week, I had a lot of work to get done, so I did the unthinkable – I put myself into Do Not Disturb. I generally don’t like to do this because then I feel unavailable to my team and people asking me questions, but I had to do something. At first, it was very unnerving because all the noise around me went quiet. I literally shut the door to my office, threw away the…
Have you ever watched a show with subtitles? I have a hard time watching “dubbed” over shows, because the words never line up with the video, and my brain can’t unsee it when it happens. Plus, when you hear the original voices and then the dubbed ones, your brain also goes – “those original voices are so much better than these other ones, I like them better”. But then, to understand what is being said,…