Breaking the Rules of Productivity
Remember that rules – even productivity rules – are made to be broken. Number 10 in The 99%’s helpful collection of 10 Laws of Productivity.
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Brianna Roux, Scientist
Brianna Roux is a young scientist, college student, and amateur knitter. Brianna uses iDoneThis to track school projects and advance medical science.
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Celebrate Your Customers: The Best of the Internet
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! A call to managers: “First, do no harm.” What does bosslessness mean? On thanking your customers. Agree that tech makes good managers better and bad ones worse? The zen of work — it takes practice.
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Charlie McDonnell: Don’t Break the Chain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJnJaAjABD4 A rather cheerful, young Brit in the internet talks about the Seinfeld “Don’t Break the Chain" productivity method. He explains, that before, if he didn’t feel like doing anything, he wouldn’t. And now, if he doesn’t feel like doing anything, he’ll get at least 1 hour of work
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Cheryl Yeoh, Entrepreneur
Cheryl Yeoh is a first-time entrepreneur and co-founder of CityPockets. Using iDoneThis every day, Cheryl tracks her productivity to analyze her efficiency.
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Clayton Christensen on What Management Isn’t
Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That’s not management, that’s dealmaking. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it’s a magnificent profession. Clayton Christensen in Wired, “Clayton Chris
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Entrepreneurs Share the Only Thing that Matters
Entrepreneur's journey is to figure out what matters and focus on it. These are 6 pieces of advice from tech leaders on what is the only thing that matters.
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Does Working in Pajamas Affect Productivity?
Lose the pajamas!! Groom and dress before punching in, and you might be more productive -- or at least able to take last-minute video meeting requests.
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Do Business Globally and Manage Remote Teams Locally
Do business globally and manage remote teams locally using I Done This -- that's part of how RingCaptcha makes security so effective and user friendly.
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Daria the Developer Hates Daily Standup
Daily standups can be great--but they can also be the bane of your dev team's workday. Here's how to get standups that are productive and enjoyable.
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Evernote Founder Phil Libin’s Secret To Looking Interested During Meetings
“I haven’t actually told this to anyone before.” Anytime you hear those words, pay attention to what the person says next. Anytime you hear those words from someone who’s co-founded three multimillion-dollar companies, drop everything and start taking notes. In this case, those words came from Phil Libin, who co-founde
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Don’t Just Build Product, Build the Machine that Builds the Product
When you build product, that's not the same as building a company—that's only the first step. The hard part is building the machine that builds the product.
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Don’t Let Your Huge Goal Distract You from Small Wins
Small wins might seem inconsequential or trivial, but they can have exactly some of the outsize impact we need to reach our big dreams.
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Don’t Preserve Startup Culture in Your Growing Company
Some founders sound like Peter Pan — they never want their startup culture to grow up. That immature mentality is no way to build a company that lasts.
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Do You Take Work For Granted or With Gratitude?
When I first joined iDoneThis, I hated our weekly meetings. They were demoralizing and amorphous. We rambled on, drowning in circuitous discussions about product that led nowhere. The meetings became a chore, making us feel like sulky high school students waiting for the bell to ring. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner noticed a
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Do What Is Important
Humans tend to be bad at understanding how we’ll feel in the future. Focus on what is important is one key to productivity that matters.
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Does Anybody Listen to You? 4 Steps to Becoming an Influencer
Being able to communicate, convince, and influence the people around you is an essential part of getting promotions, raises, and access to opportunities.
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Don’t Copy and Paste Your Customer Support
It's easy to slip into robotic customer support without realizing it. Here's how to recognize that you're copy-pasting support and what to do about it.
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Dr Seuss’s Surprising Strategy For Success
Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham using only 50 different words. Here's how he used the power of constraints to unleash his creativity and get more done.
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Do the Painful Things First
Behavioral scientists have discovered that one of the most effective ways to boost happiness is to do the painful parts of any process first. Here's why.
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Customer Service and Empathy: The Best of the Internet
Look at this tough guy! Now look at the best of what we shared on the interwebs this week: The Golden Rule of Management: treat others the way you want to be treated. Why iDoneThis is part of Love With Food’s company rhythm. How the Lost Art of Empathy affects your employees and customers. 6 Tips on [...]
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Draft + iDoneThis: Celebrate your writing progress
We’ve integrated with Draft to make it easy to track your writing progress. Make your piece in Draft a done in iDoneThis with a single click.
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Effective Communication: The Best of the Internet
REMINDER! We’re giving away some awesome prizes for subscribers who sign up for the newsletter by Sunday, August 18, 11:59 pm EST. How Dan Pink Invested in iDoneThis — it started with a to-do item that sat and sat undone for weeks. Getting to Better Than Optimal is even more important in this increasingly automated, te
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Connect Your Services to iDoneThis Effortlessly with Zapier
Automate the sending of dones to iDoneThis using Zapier. Here's how to integrate Zapier with your favorite apps like GitHub, Trello, Gtalk, Asana, and more.
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