Posts Tagged ‘productivity’
It seems that as I age, more and more of what I write is in list format. This is probably an attempt to save time — I’m growing older and running out of minutes. Granted, I’m only 37, but still. I seem to be obsessed with maximizing available time. A few years ago, I tried [...]
I’ve been thinking about writing lately, and how my productivity has basically tanked since I departed college for the RealWorld™. There is a litany of contributing factors to that, and I think that with this post, I’ll be scratching the surface of that set. First and foremost, it’s because I am not regularly in the [...]
18-19 by krautwald. I had forgotten just how tedious font design can be when you’re doing it right. Back in the day, when Fontosaurus was putting out 1-2 free fonts a week, I was able to take designs from sketch to production in a matter of hours. But those were free fonts, with incomplete character [...]
Time (t) is the enemy of all writers. It was certainly mine this weekend — I accomplished nothing. Granted, in my case, that was because I regularly placed other priorities ahead of my writing. This is something that has frequently been a problem since I departed college — time, or lack thereof, has a serious [...]
My Messy Moleskine by adulau To put myself onto more of a regular schedule with writing in this blog, I’ve decided that I’m going to create a writing schedule for this. When I have x amount of time allotted on a day y to talk about topic z, that provides a level of focus that [...]
ZenHabits has a great piece on how to keep yourself focused while at work. Obviously, blogging about the article is a way to lose focus.
Photo by Mrs Magic. Licensed under the Creative Commons. It’s amazing how easy it is to procrastinate, even with a life that includes a full-time job, part-time job, girlfriend, writing, training, and so on. Fighting the procrastination has been part of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2007 and 2008. (The resolution was/is “be more awesome.”) [...]
If there’s one thing that unemployment is really good for, it’s productivity. (I am, of course, ignoring the bad things it causes — like stress, the shutting down of one’s brain, money woes, an urge to drink heavily, and so on.) Since my lay-off from my previous employer nearly two months ago, I have spent [...]
