How the Power-Happiness Connection Matters at Work
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How Luc Levesque Leads TravelPod & TripAdvisor to Focus on Being the Best
Luc Levesque is GM at TripAdvisor and runs its SEO. He told us how he communicates with his team and why frequent feedback is vital to top performance.
How Ravelry Stitches its Creative Community Together
A small, remote team, Ravelry operates along the principles of utility, connection, and fun. They stay sycned and motivated by sharing their daily progress.
How To Create Time
How To Create Time: 1. Eliminate or reduce media. 2. Work offline. 3. Do less. 4. Don’t make appointments or schedule meetings. 5. Sleep in two shifts. 6. Make time less precious. Read the full tips from Caterina Fake, not just on how to create time, but how to work with joy.
How Mozilla Foundation Navigates Across Teams
Here's how Mozilla Foundation cut down on time consuming status meetings, phone calls and emails to sync up for their remote teams.
How Reddit Builds a Progress Record (and the Front Page of the Internet)
With the Reddit team working remotely, it's a challenge to get on the same page. They use iDoneThis to stay in sync and track their accomplishments.
How PagerDuty Gets Intelligent Messaging Across
Systems down? Who you gonna call? PagerDuty is on it! The service dispatches alerts collected from system monitoring tools through email, SMS, phone, and mobile and provides no-fuss on-call management. PagerDuty is all about intelligent messaging, integrating with tools you already have to notify the right person to de
How To Boost Your Willpower
— Mark Hoffmann comments on this NYT Well blog post, suggesting that willpower improves when you define your tasks better.
How Does Food Affect Productivity?
A 2005 study by the International Labour Organization found that nutrition habits do indeed directly influence work productivity. Mindflash’s infographic offers some great brain food suggestions. We’re always up for eating more dark chocolate, avocados, and blueberries – yum! Click here for a proper viewing size.
How Agiliq Creates Bespoke Webapps by Focusing Within
How Agiliq and their 12-person team builds custom web apps by focusing on internal communication.
How Roeder Studios’s Virtual Team Built a Social Media Empire
Building a business from scratch is a huge challenge and doing it with a virtual team is even tougher. The interaction and information exchange that happens when people work in the same room often get taken for granted. It’s something that’s tricky to replicate when the team is straddled across different locations and
How Sourceninja Gets an Extra 7 Hours of Productivity Every Week
Here's how Sourceninja cut out its daily standup meeting and in the process gained 7 hours every week in productivity.
How Code Academy Manages Rapid Growth
I’m a huge fan of the folks at Code Academy because they’re builders, and on top of that, their mission is to empower others to create. It makes perfect sense then that after they heard about the concept of Google snippets, their first instinct was the build the product themselves. They went from the thought, [...]
How Pipedrive Achieves International Scale by Working Remotely
Pipedrive spans 3 continents and has created one of the hottest CRM tools on the market in a few short years. Here's how they did it by working remotely.
How to Build the Machine that Builds the Product
The hard part of building a company isn't when you build product, it's when you build the machine that builds the product.
Have the Courage to Live an Imperfect Life
The world isn’t like how you envisioned. What then? Do you lose your motivation? Do you have the courage to live an imperfect life?
Have a (proper) productivity schedule!
We know what Dundee does after 8am 🙂
Grit vs. Talent in Progress
Grit vs. Talent in Progress “Very often when we talk about the skill of ‘productivity’ what we are really talking about is ‘self-control’ — the disciplined ability to choose to do one thing at the cost of not doing another (perhaps more tempting thing).” As the nature of work changes to more flexible design, we [...]
Google Calendar, iDoneThis Sharing, and More!
Hi there. We’re proud to announce two new features to you. Friends, iDoneThis users, humans, Dundee the productive dog — lend me your ears. Get your iDoneThis daily dones in your Google Calendar! Click on the “Feed” link underneath your iDoneThis calendar. You will receive a secret link that you can plug into your Goog
How Rakesh Nair Stayed Productive for 100-Straight Days
Meet Rakesh Nair, software developer, writer, and foodie. Rakesh stays productive with his many projects so that at day’s end he can write down his accomplishments in iDoneThis. BIO I express myself almost completely in three words which form a part of my Twitter bio: Fat, Humorous, Witty. I love food, all kinds, with
How I Ran a 10K
This is how I trained to go from zero to running 10K in 12 weeks. When I started, I couldn't even run 1 mile.
How To Be An Excellent Leader: The Best of the Internet
Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! The rise of the culture hacker. The antidote to burnout is progress. Check in with people. Don’t check up on them. Want to be an excellent leader? Read these 10 books. Teach why startups fail. Dundee’s Tip…
How to Master the Art of To-Do Lists by Understanding Why They Fail
The to-do list is an inescapable, age-old productivity tool. It is our very human attempt to create order in our disorderly lives and express our ability to impose self-control. Most of us, including to-do list haters, keep one, and the fact is, they can work when you find the to-do…
How to Make Sound Decisions About Your Product Design’s Future
Product design is all about tradeoffs—and when we designed I Done This 2.0, we had a lot to consider. We added new functionality, like blockers. But we also noticed a few patterns in our user behavior data that we weren't quite sure what to do with. We find, for example,…