Category Archives: Productivity

Biphasic Sleep Journal - Week Two

August 31, 2009 – 3:54 PM
Alright, it is now Monday, and that means that I have completed two weeks of my experiment with biphasic sleeping.  Although the first week's journal was very optimistic, I definitely felt a change of heart this time around.  At the... Read More »
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What is this Twitter thing all about?

August 31, 2009 – 1:07 PM
Unless you've been living in a cave that is protected from wireless internet access, own a tin foil hat, wear that tin foil hat with the shiny side facing out, and haven't been talking to the hermit living in the... Read More »
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RTM and GTD - Acronyms to change your life

August 28, 2009 – 4:20 AM
One of the projects that I had decided I wanted to take on during my break was to review the web application called Remember the Milk (RTM), and see how it would integrate with my existing GTD (Gettings Things Done)... Read More »
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Lifehacking

August 24, 2009 – 5:46 AM
Lifehacking is an odd term, but the benefits that the activity bring are well worth getting past that initial connotation.  To me, lifehacking is the process of making changes in your life, your routine, and the way you think, in... Read More »
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Biphasic Sleep Journal - Week One

August 23, 2009 – 9:30 AM
I finished work last week, and had three weeks ahead of me.  Prior to the end of work, I had been collecting a large number of projects that I wanted to tackle before school started. I will be writing later... Read More »
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A conversation on GTD

August 12, 2009 – 2:11 PM
A friend and I were talking recently about GTD, and some of the difficulties he was having with his own implementation.  The conversation we ended up having turned out to be a good primer on some additional GTD tips, so... Read More »
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The small things

June 1, 2009 – 5:00 PM
As I've mentioned before, I'm a big fan of little things that increase the efficiency of things that I do frequently.Below are a few programs that I have installed on my machine at work that enable this for me.  The... Read More »
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Evolution of a system, and some other minor updates

June 1, 2009 – 8:31 AM
It's been around two months since I started leveraging Macintosh's Stickies to act as my digital task management system.  As all good processes should do, my system has evolved over time in order to better accommodate the things that I... Read More »
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Making the most of your time

May 22, 2009 – 6:42 PM
Today's my thirtieth birthday.  For a lot of people that's a pretty big milestone.  Some people see it as the start of entering mid-life, some the end of youth.  I try to live my life by staying present in the... Read More »
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Dance notes

May 16, 2009 – 3:27 PM
Since starting to teach classes, opportunities to come up with new ideas and techniques to teach in class are something I have been trying to keep on top of.  Well, actually, it's not really an option; I simply have to... Read More »
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