Posts Tagged ‘Fast Company’
April 27th, 2010, 2 comments
The best part about my Work Smart video series at Fast Company is that I get to cover my favorite, classic digital productivity problems with the latest and greatest solutions I know in a whole new medium.
In the past five installments I addressed some old and new issues any tech savvy digital worker encounters: keeping track of passwords, wasting time leaving and listening to voicemail, being a productive freelancer (or just work-at-homer), syncing files across all your computers, and, for fun, a few things you didn't know your cameraphone can do. Hit play on any of the 2-3 minute segments inside.
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I’m Not Buying an iPad This Weekend
April 2nd, 2010, 7 comments
Even though I'm desperately curious how one looks and feels and works, I'm not buying an iPad--just yet, anyway. I'll head down to the Apple store and fondle one on Saturday, just before TWiG, so that I can talk about it on-air. But I'm already suffering from gadget overload, with a netbook and an iPod touch and the Nexus One and a Kindle, so bringing another gadget into the house just doesn't makes sense. I will buy a tablet in the next year or so--after I eBay my Kindle and my iPod touch and get to see some of the Android models in person, too. If you're on the fence about whether or not to succumb to the iPad, read this: Why You Shouldn't Buy an iPad (Yet).
March 26th, 2010
My two latest videos over at Fast Company deal with how to get things done even when your lizard brain is completely against you. First, a bit on how to procrastinate productively; second, how to get your most important work done first thing, before you start procrastinating.
The topics are very much related. Once you've let yourself dread something long enough, you get stuck in a cycle of procrastination that makes you feel like crap. But my big secret is this: some of my best work got done while I was putting off doing something else. When you're procrastinating, you're highly motivated to avoid something for as long as possible. Which means you've got both the will and the time to knock out something OTHER than the dreaded task you're putting off.
On the other hand, if you see that dreaded task looming on the horizon, you can set yourself up to tackle it first thing in the morning, before anything else happens. I jacked the title of a book I love, Eat That Frog, to describe that one. Here are the two clips.
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