Tag: Productivity

  • Marketers Claim Digital Growth Has Negatively Impacted Creative Quality. Here’s Why They’re Thinking About It All Wrong

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        A new study shows that marketers across the world believe digital growth has hindered their ability to create engaging, quality content. But the real question is: has it? To an extent, yes. It’s true that there’s an immense amount of noise in our digital world. Marketers and customers alike find themselves so distracted they can’t really […]

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  • 5 Things to Do When You Have Too Many Ideas and Never Finish Anything.

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    What do you do when you’re overwhelmed with too many ideas? Do you abandon them, or do you finish what you start? Juggling multiple ideas and goals — to write, exercise, read more, wake up early and so on — is a tough gig that often begins with excitement, but ends with procrastination, and failure to finish any one […]

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  • Death by a thousand strokes

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    Whenever you come into contact with an immerse and impactful piece of work, the towering obelisk, the frescoes on the ceiling, the sculptures, the works of art, the architectural marvel, the music, films and books that draw us in deep into new and exotic locales, it is easy to be so impressed, so moved by […]

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  • How to Make Your Subconscious Mind Work for You

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    Our rational, conscious mind is a wonderful thing. But sometimes when we are looking for a solution, it can be a limited resource. I’m always looking for ways to work smarter, not harder. What if I could come up with answers in my sleep? I discovered that it’s possible to do just that. To the outsider, […]

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  • Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity

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    A lot of articles address the role of tech leads and engineering managers. One common theme we often come across is how to increase a team’s productivity. But before you focus your energy trying to increase their productivity, you might first want to consider what’s destroying it, to have a sound base on which you can […]

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  • What I Learned From 30 Blockchain CEOs

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    Why Blockchain is Here to Stay and How to Jump Head-First into the Industry I reached out to over 30 CEOs running blockchain startups across the world. I wanted to ask them a couple of simple questions. What are you most excited about right now? What advice do you have for a young 20-something who wants to […]

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  • How Technology Is Stealing Our Time

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    On the effects of counterproductivity, and how better technology consumes more time than it saves. Once upon a time, women were forced to spend all their time burdened with housework. But then, to their rescue came technology. With the creation of vacuum cleaners, dishwashers and washing machines, technology liberated women and gave them more time to […]

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  • The Time Hacker Method

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    A productivity hack for doing more of what matters — 15 minutes at a time. This is a post about hacking — not the kind of hacking that has come to refer to breaking into computer systems (cracking), but rather the positive hacking that seeks to explore, understand, and share. If this form of hacking is new to you then […]

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  • Make a Digital Artifact that Helps Somebody

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    So, your goal is to create a purpose-built digital artifact. But what even is that? Can it be just anything? Well, yes and no. A digital artifact is a human-made object in digital space. We make digital artifacts every time we interact with one another, or even with ourselves, in digital space — in ways that, however they appear […]

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