Archive for the ‘Productivity’ Category

Managing Your CraigsList Posts

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

I have had great success using CraigsList to buy and sell both products and services, as well as find employees and odd jobs. One problem I have faced is organizing all of the responses. I would usually receive a whole bunch of e-mails that I would then have to sort ...

Free GTD Printable Workflow

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

I use GTD as my methodology for productivity. I found it useful to have a simple diagram printed out on my wall to give me a quick reminder on the flow. I have shared it with a few people new to the GTD and they loved it, so I'm now ...

Learn How to Read Efficiently with OPIR Method

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

I found this method to work very well for reading any book with the exception of novels.

Doubling Your Brain Power

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Don't you want to think faster, remember more and comprehend more information? I did, and consequently I set out to study some methods to achieve those results. Following are some of my favorites.

Day 1 Using Easy Eclipse - Initial reactions, compliments and gripes

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Day One – What I have set up… I am a little overwhelmed with the amount of features in Eclipse! This is undoubtedly a great thing! I was particularly impressed with the number of features that worked right out of the box... Let me go over quickly some of ...

A Timeless Success Formula

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

By Elmer Thomas Napoleon Hill described this formula as "A success formula that always succeeds when applied." This formula was created by none other than Benjamin Franklin. Basically, Franklin wanted to leave a formula behind for his son through his autobiography. Franklin came up with a list of essential virtues and ...

Working From Home and the GTD

Monday, July 16th, 2007

When you are in the practice of executing under the GTD model, you are to consider the context, time available, energy available and priority when you are in the moment. At the daily level you are doing predefined work, work as is shows up or you are defining your work. ...

Do Math Quickly in Your Head

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Some time ago a picked up a cool little book called "Short-Cut Math" by Gerard W. Kelly. It's promise was to increase my calculation ability (in my head) up to three times. Following are the tips that stayed with me since I read the book and that I found most ...

GTD: A Tech CEO’s Journey

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

For the uninitiated, GTD stands for Getting Things Done, which is a methodology captured in a book by the same title, authored by David Allen. Here, I will write about my current solution, while not perfect, allows me a greater degree of freedom than ever before.

Lightweight Rapid Goal Based Engineering

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

There are many times when I am developing (mainly ThemBid.com these days) that I run up against minor technical hurdles that are not exactly trivial to solve. Following is method that I use that has served me well.