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productivityA dozen important productivity blog posts that haven't been written yetMon, 2008/10/27 - 04:59 — mattAs I write my weekly posts I try not to cover topics you can easily find elsewhere [1], including (with a few resources):
Add, subtract, multiply, divide: Productivity lessons from basic mathTue, 2008/09/16 - 11:56 — mattIn the recent Harvard Business Review article "The Science of Thinking Smarter" [1], molecular biologist John Medina discussed stress implications of neuroscience research, especially the impact on learning. When I read that stressed people do poorly at math, the NASA engineer in me asked what productivity insights we could learn from the those four familiar operations. For a bit of variety, I'm keeping this short (!), so please contribute your insights. Happy calculating! Addition
The real reasons for the modern productivity movementThu, 2008/09/11 - 15:06 — matt(Sidebar: I know I'm a late adopter, but I've been playing with Twitter. If you want to join in my experiment, I'm matthewcornell.) Productivity lessons from mountain biking. Or, what sports can teach us about doingThu, 2008/09/04 - 19:39 — mattI'm reading The Inner Game of Tennis, and the first page sounds like a how-to for becoming more effective. From "The Inner Game of Tennis" is Genius: The player of the inner game comes to value the art of relaxed concentration above all other skills; he discovers a true basis for self-confidence; and he learns that the secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard. He aims at the kind of spontaneous performance which occurs only when the mind is calm and seems at one with the body, which finds its own surprising ways to surpass its own limits again and again. A conversation with Marilyn Paul, author of "It's hard to make a difference when you can't find your keys"Fri, 2008/01/04 - 01:44 — mattAnother treat in my interview series (kickoff post, all posts), I'm very pleased to share highlights from an hour with Dr. Marilyn Paul, author of the best-selling It's Hard to Make a Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys (The Seven-Step Path to Becoming Truly Organized) (personal and consulting sites). A nice surprise: A short email interview with UK productivity expert Nicholas BateTue, 2007/12/04 - 02:10 — mattOne of the great things about my series of interviews with top productivity consultants [1] (along with lots of new ideas) is discovering thinkers I've not previously heard of. I'm pleased to share a short email interview with Nicholas Bate (site, blog), who came to my attention when I received a surprise box of books and playing cards [2] from London, including Being the Best: The A-Z of Personal Success, JfDI! A conversation with Sally McGhee, productivity pioneer and author of "Take Back Your Life"Wed, 2007/11/21 - 01:31 — mattContinuing my interview series with the top experts in personal productivity comes another deep and wide-ranging conversation, this time with Sally McGhee, CEO of McGhee Productivity Solutions and author of Take Back Your Life!: Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to Get Organized and Stay Organized. Some tasty morsels from the Ideamatt self help formularyTue, 2007/11/13 - 09:20 — mattA light post this week, I wanted to share a few select formulas for productivity and self help I've been collecting. Hopefully some will resonate. Let's hear yours! -- matt
An interview with Chris Crouch, creator of the GO SystemThu, 2007/11/08 - 08:52 — mattContinuing my interview series [1] with the top experts in personal productivity, I'm very pleased to share highlights from my conversation with Chris Crouch, creator of the GO System and author of Getting Organized: Learning How to Focus, Organize and Prioritize. Chris's company runs a certification program and sells products like an implementation kit. You can find some of his articles here. Reading gone wild! How to read five books a week (or why Scott Ginsberg is my hero)Tue, 2007/10/30 - 02:36 — mattOne of the most popular topics here is reading efficiently, including How to read a lot of books in a short time and A reading workflow based on Leveen's "Little Guide". Using Leveen's terminology, I have a candidates library of at least 50 books (i.e., purchased and in my bookcase), and a pre-candidates list of around 600 (kept on Amazon, but it's not perfect). So I really want to read a lot (actually, to learn a lot), but the problem is my eyes are bigger than my stomach, and I've fallen behind. This is in spite of outsourcing voice note transcription [1]. |
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