Why Your Goals Aren’t Making You More Productive
Used by tons of tech companies, OKR is widespread in the tech community. But misuse of OKR goals can prove fatal to your organization. Read our tips here!
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Your Employees Are Underperforming…They Just Don’t Know It
Want to boost your team's productivity? Try boosting their confidence.
Your Accomplishments, Now with Emojis
We've added emojis to iDoneThis! To use it, just type a colon and then start typing a word, like :pizza:. If an autocomplete menu shows up, then we have it
Why You Will Gain Freedom with a Set Creativity Schedule
Without carving out a creativity schedule, you'll procrastinate on creative work with less important tasks.
Why You Shouldn’t Let Engineers Negotiate Their Salary
Negotiating salary when recruiting engineers is a dumb move. That's why Steve Newcomb doesn't let engineers negotiate and uses a company salary formula.
You’re Not Good Enough to Be Disappointed Yet
You haven’t developed your skills. It’s only the professionals that are allowed to be disappointed because they have put in the work to be better.
Your Only Sustainable Competitive Advantage: One Vital Lesson for Success from 99U Pop-Up School
Here are 3 lessons I learned at the 99U Pop-Up School on why it’s so important to tune in and how to turn self-awareness into a major competitive advantage.
Work vs Home: Knock Down Those Walls!
Although the pressures of society and work often cause us to behave differently in our work and home lives, I believe we must resolve to knock down these artificial walls and behave the same at work and at home. Bill George, author of Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value, at Harvard
Women, Toot Your Own Horn or Get Left Behind
The most powerful tactic for women in advancing their career is to make their achievements known. Here's how women can make self-promotion work effectively.
Why To-Do Lists Fail: The Best of the Internet
How to master the art of the to-do list by understanding why they fail and some more of the best articles from around the web.
Wise Words from Benjamin Franklin
’Tis easy to frame a good bold resolution; But hard is the Task that concerns execution. Take some comfort in the fact that Ben Franklin, the genius who did everything, still found the doing part a little tough!
Video: Ken Robinson on Rediscovering Energy
Ken Robinson’s School of Life talk teaches us to think about our lives in terms of energy and passions.
You Can Do It!
It’s funny how little things can make a difference, like finding forgotten candy in a drawer or $5 in the street. Hope this little heart-y pic provides a mid-week boost! We love you. Keep going.
Welcome Mike Sun to the iDoneThis team!
We’re thrilled to introduce that Michael Sun, engineer and hacker extraordinaire, has joined the iDoneThis team. In January and February, Michael worked with us on a contract basis to help us scale our infrastructure to support the influx of new users we were getting, and he did a fantastic job. When we had the opportu
Wisdom from Malcolm Gladwell
Thank you, Malcolm Gladwell’s floating head. We send you off to the weekend with the hope that you’re all sorts of happy, working, and fulfilled — 9 to 5, and 5 to 9!
Turn Your Can’ts into Cans!
Turn Your Can’ts into Cans!
What Good Will You Do Today?
Ben Franklin, that man of many hats, started and ended each day asking himself some pretty good questions! Plus, a lesson from this very productive man — remember to sleep, eat meals, and leave some time for diversion! What good will you do today? We hope iDoneThis helps you put things in their places, examine your [..
Lexicographer Extraordinaire & Wordnik Founder – Our Interview with Erin Mckean
Dictionary Evangelist and founder of Wordnik.com, Erin McKean spreads the good word about words. Former editor in chief for American Dictionaries at Oxford University Press and editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2E, Erin also shared her quest to redefine the dictionary itself in a 2007 TED talk. That redefin
You Don’t Need An Army When You Have Seal Team 6
You Don’t Need An Army When You Have Seal Team 6 Sometimes, you can get more done with less.
Vision
In choosing to do our startup in the San Francisco Bay Area, near the heart of the Valley — the world center for technology and innovation — and joining an incubator run by Xooglers, we didn’t expect our company’s most powerful and transformative lesson over the past 4 months to be that in the realm [...]
Willem Bult, Entrepreneur
Willem Bult is a world traveler, entrepreneur, and software developer. Here's how he keeps himself motivated as a software developer.
How We Got Our First 5,000 Users
Here's how we started from zero and got our first 5,000 users. We got users from existing communities by constructing custom narratives for them.
Wisdom from Andrew Zuckerman
The book trailer for Andrew Zuckerman’s Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One Generation Can Give to Another is a treasure trove of wise words from leaders of all fields who are all over 65 years old. Here are some of our favorites from the wise words spoketh: "Your best work is your…
Wisdom from The Hunger Games
Some words of strength to see you out to the weekend. Thankfully, you won’t be battling to the death for the entertainment of a dystopian television audience! May the odds be ever in your favor … of getting some stuff done!