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Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich dipped into the mind of Leonardo and his to-do list, based on Toby Lester’s book, Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image, which comes out today. According to Lester, Leonardo travelled with a small notebook at the ready to take notes,…
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! How we help Crashlytics work so that mobile developers can focus on the things that matter. Breaking down the science of productivity. Overcoming the bias against creatives as leaders. Are you a daydream believer? We are.
Don’t get all inner-Angrybot at work. Eilene Zimmerman wrote recently in the NYT about how to deal with office anger. Tips on how to deal include writing it down: It might help to vent by writing down your feelings and thoughts, says Deborah Grayson Riegel, founder of Elevated Training in Hewlett, N.Y. The writing…
We tend to think of following our passions or what we consider our true callings as either inevitable or the impossible dream. But remember that going all in requires calculation too. (via smarterthaniam)
Here's an excerpt from our fresh-of-the-presses eBook, What You Don't Know About Management: How to Take Back Your Work Day. If you like what you read, download the 50+ page eBook for free! One of the biggest misconceptions of management is about what really drives people. In a survey of hundreds of managers by…
Photo: Mohamed Muha Happy Saturday all! Catch up with some of our favorites things we’ve shared during the week: We wrote about reconsidering the startup open floor plan office. Whitney Hess writes on empathy versus apathy and organizational culture. Get rid of stupid rules at work. The importance of building a company
Leo Babauta of zen habits is all for killing time. To Leo, “killing” is a misnomer. Reframe killing time as enjoying time. Is this what our lives are to be? A non-stop stream of productive tasks? A life-long work day? A computer program optimized for productivity and efficiency? A cog in a machine? What about joy? What
Like accolades ought to be, the fulfilled life is a consequence, a gratifying byproduct. It’s what happens when you’re thinking about more important things. Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the [...]
Happy Monday! Keep on, keepin’ on!
Drew Dudley’s TEDx Toronto talk about redefining leadership beyond money, power, and titles reminds us that we are all everyday leaders, and that we don’t have any excuses in expecting leadership from ourselves and from each other. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
More satisfied and engaged employees perform better. In a Towers Watson study of some 90,000 employees across eighteen countries, companies with the most engaged employees reported a 19 percent increase in operating income, and a 28 percent growth in earnings per share. Companies whose employees had the lowest level of
Daniel Pink's TED talk, animated by RSA Animate, on the importance of Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose in your work.
Meet Corey Maass, productivity expert, software developer, and musician. Corey uses iDoneThis to keep track of work, play, and everything in between. BIO Corey’s been working on the web for 15 years, enough time to learn a little about a lot of things. In 2004 he launched his first web app, and has created [...]
Ernesto Ramirez is a Ph.D student and organizer for Quantified Self. Ernesto uses iDoneThis to feel great about what he gets done every day.
Hari Palaiyanur is a newly minted Ph.D who used iDoneThis to motivate him to make progress on his dissertation every day, until he had his Ph.D in hand.
Check out Eileen Brady’s minute of insight for entrepreneurs that works for all of us! "It’s really the individuals that can get up and say … I’m just going to try and win the day and move on and win the next day that end up making it." (From GOOD’s minute…
It’s how [exercise] make me feel: more energized, less stressed, more productive, more engaged and, yes, happier — better able to smell the roses and cope with the inevitable frustrations of daily life. Jane E. Brody, NYT Well, “Changing Our Tune on Exercise” Brody writes about how reframing the message of…
Stop planning to do that thing you want to do and just do it! Felicia Day, Lifehacker, I’m Felicia Day, and This is How I Work
Ira Glass’s wise words on closing the gap between your work and your ambitions: Do a lot of work! (original design by Sawyer Hollenshead)
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The Definitive Guide to Google Snippets I knew nothing about Google Snippets before I moved to Silicon Valley. But when I was out there, I kept hearing that successful company after company — like Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Buzzfeed and more — used the snippets system to power a flat and…
Not so long ago, customer support was seen as a luxury rather than a necessity. Many companies mistakenly saw customer support as an expense to be managed rather than as an asset to be leveraged. As flawed as this position may be, it’s understandable. After all, it’s a lot easier to quantify the value of [...]
Ashton's email tip will certainly boost your mental focus at work. Taking an hour in the morning to write out your goals for the day is a great idea.
The Brief Productivity is everything at startups. And, with all the chaos that happens at startups (growth, hiring, legal – you name it), it’s easy to lose sight on tracking your productivity. That’s where Markitors found themselves last year. Markitors is a growing digital marketing agency in Scottsdale, Arizona with
