And, yeah, sometimes, you’re going to have to just work unbelievably hard at whatever you claim to care about before anyone can begin to help you get any better—or less “distracted”—at it. Try, make, and do until you quit noticing the tools, and if you still think you need new tools, go try, make, and [...]
I never mess with Automator. I should. It’s so awesome and powerful, yet I often forget about it. (Tutorials) This is not limited to torrent files. It’s anything. I will be setting up additional workflows for movie and image files. And music from old backups…Unfortunately, now I’ll be tempted to mess with Automator for hours [...]
Although he jumps around a bit and doesn’t complete some of his points, this is a nice little TED presentation from Jason Fried. (via mnmal) Points I agree with: Interruption-free environment: whether this is allowing employees to work remotely on occasion, setting rules in the office like “no-talk Thursdays,” or some other solution, give your [...]
I love Big Think. Jason Fried (37 Signals) reports on the current state of the workplace (via Philip): This is pretty accurate. Some managers are better than others, but the interruption concept is spot on. I love working remotely, in my cave (see Rands on his cave for more), because I am not distracted. If [...]
Nice little productivity article from Zen Habits. Numbers 6 and 7 speak to me right now. 6. Use one simple tool. For me, I just choose one text editor to write (usually either WriteRoom or TextEdit). The simpler the tool, the better, because full featured tools end up being distracting and you want to fiddle [...]