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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 [...]
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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
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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
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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The causes of workplace conflict are recognizable. Psychologists have identified eight causes of workplace conflict. Here's how to solve workplace conflict.
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We originally published this piece in 2017. Two years later, we added fresh advice for managers. The modern workplace’s vogue is informal information exchange. We sit in open floor plan offices so that we can spontaneously collide, chat, and collaborate. An office setup for generating ideas can be fizzy and…
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Despite the growing popularity of instant-messaging support and “conversational agents”—better known as chatbots—actually talking to a customer on the phone is one of the best ways to engage in a real conversation and learn more about a customer’s problems. Done right, such conversations can be helpful, valuable, and e
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Oftentimes, one of the biggest roadblocks to creating great content isn’t finding the time to write it or coming up with new angles to well-worn topics or establishing a regular publication schedule. It’s finding smart, knowledgeable subject-matter experts who are willing to actually write content. This, more than anyt
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Giving feedback can be terrifying. You’re often afraid of being too direct and setting a team member on the defensive. Or you’re worried that you’ll temper criticism with too much praise — losing your message in translation. Because giving feedback is difficult, people often do the exact wrong thing and avoid giving fe
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Goals are the glue that holds a company together. Setting the right business goals help all the people in a company align around making progress and moving forward to a shared vision.
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A lack of support after maternity leave can lead to major talent losses at a company. But the losses can be avoidable if you take the right steps.
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This is a guest post from Kim Kadiyala, Partnership Manager at Zapier. A daily status update is only as helpful as it is complete. If your team struggles to log their dones, goals, and blockers, rest assured you’re not alone. But if you’re using a project management tool like Asana, Trello, or Basecamp to take [...]
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Summer interns are meant to make your job easier, not harder. But since most interns have zero work experience, it's up to you to show them how things work.
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Humor in the workplace can improve your work culture and productivity. Make sure you do it right.
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Teams of all sizes struggle with their process at some point; so what happens when your team needs to keep scaling up as quickly as it did in the beginning?
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Print out this handy checklist and your startup launch will go more smoothly, especially if you reward your team's completion of every task you check off.
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Giveaways grow email lists. Remember that people are generally reluctant to give their address up unless they're going to get something of value in return.
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Transparency in your team email means that information is readily available to everyone and that accountability can be a part of your customer support.
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Customer meetups let you casually interact with your users, building a system of trust and loyalty for your company. Here's how we host ours!
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With so much of your team taking time off during the holidays, here's how to revive your daily standups to make sure what needs to get done, gets done!
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I Done This 2.0 automatically sets the default length of a Done List post at about 12 words.
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