Free Post productivity And…back Back from both holiday and a blogging break. Here's what's been going on.
Free Post iOS iOS 11 fundamentally changes the iPad I’ve been playing with the iOS11 public beta on my iPad for the last couple of weeks – and it’s transformative in the way I can use it for
Free Post browsers Tabs: the vice of choice for the digital hoarder Are browser tabs the obsession of a new wave of hoarders? Pretty much Sure, all those browser tabs don’t actually require physical storage space. But they intrude on my
Free Post iPad iPad: the almost device MG Siegler on almost being able to switch full-time to his iPad – but not quite: This is especially frustrating to me because I see glimpses of the computing future I
Free Post focus Can you monotask? The New York Times: Not the same as mindfulness, which focuses on emotional awareness, monotasking is a 21st-century term for what your high school English teacher probably just called “paying attention.” This is one of the reasons I work on my iPad so much
Free Post digital journalism Om Malik on daily journalism Some good advice for journalists from Om Malik, even if it swims against the “volume over all” tide: At Gigaom we didn’t push our reporters to do 10 posts
Free Post iPad Using an iPad to prepare photos for the web Using an iPad to prepare photos for the web This article has me rethinking one of my core reasons for not using my iPad for more blogging: I’ve pretty
Free Post e-mail E-mail Ennui I hate e-mail. I really hate e-mail. Can everyone just move to messaging apps for the serious stuff right now, please? Thanks.
Free Post design Can we design for more time? Here’s a good question: If digital technology saves time, how come so many of us feel rushed and harried? Technological utopians once dreamt of the post-industrial society as one of leisure. Instead, we are more like characters in Alice in Wonderland, running ever
Free Post email Slaying the e-mail monster I’ve been staring at an unusual sight on and off over the last 18 hours or so: Yes, I’ve hit inbox zero. And I need to keep as close to this as I can. Here’s why: My working life is about
Free Post facebook Facebook demobbed I just made a spur-of-the-moment decision – while sat in a local coffee shop – to remove Facebook from my iPhone. I’m not killing my account or anything like that – understanding how it operates is part of what I do – but the main app is
Free Post creativity You need a holiday, says neuroscience When you’re two years old, a busy day just needs a restorative nap, while you are carried home by your parents. When you’re older, and your productivity matters, you need more than that: Increasing creativity will happen naturally as we tame the
Free Post 31-3-14 31-3.6 Time, money and desk space I started this daft writing project with ideas of fighting complacency. It’s too easy to slip into habits in your blogging, to just keep doing what you did before, without any serious attempt to keep pushing yourself forwards. And, in a sense, I’
Free Post corporate culture Stop working so damn hard You shouldn’t put in so many hours working. Why? The perplexing thing about the cult of overwork is that, as we’ve known for a while, long hours diminish both productivity and quality. Among industrial workers, overtime raises the rate of mistakes and
Free Post blogging Lists: how we understand the world There’s more to lists than you think: Umberto explained in an interview that lists are often seen as relics of primitive cultures–simplistic devices that don’t belong in our modern day and age. However, the simple form of the list prevails again
