Applied Research in a World of Increasing Time Demands
This is an interesting post from the third day of someone’s attempt to maintain a Zero Inbox. It’s quite a diligent effort, and I admire his use of tracking statistics to get some insights into what’s going on with all the email messages received in a day. It’s interesting that so few replies are generated, …
Professionals who undertake the discipline of Scheduling at higher skill levels (Orange and Green belts) have their calendar as the central point of focus (rather than their memory, or lists of different varieties.) They place most activities directly into an available time-slot, immediately assigning it a date, duration and start-time. In so doing, they are …
It’s fascinating to me how many productivity-related design decisions are made by makers of mobile gadgets (like Blackberrys,) software (like Outlook) and web services (like Gmail.) In the first week of using a new BB Curve 8250, I have had to make a variety of changes to the default settings in order to have it …
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One of the problems that I created for myself when I created the belt system of skills here at 2Time is in the discipline of “Warning.” The idea was simple enough when I first envisioned it. (Here are my original 2 posts on the topic.) Any good system needs a way to warn its owner …
I found a website that echoes the very same thoughts I have shared on this site about the power of upgrading one’s Scheduling skills, and relying less on Listing. I don’t think they have found this site, as they appear to have arrived at the same conclusions that I have independently, but they are the …
Hopefully, third time’s a charm. I have tried at different points in this website’s evolution to set up a decent discussion, but the technology never seemed to cooperate to make things work the way I wanted. All I have wanted is a secure location that is easy to use for subscribers to this website, free …
It might be my training in industrial engineering and operations research, or just my love of factory environments, but I am still tinkering with the idea that the basic unit of time management is something called a Time Demand. I just re-read a post I wrote back in 2007 on Time Demands and realized that …
In prior posts I have made the point that Outlook and Gmail have become much more than email programs. While they both started out as email managers, they have become the primary portals that people use to manage time demands of all kinds. I have argued that they do a poor job for the majority …
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Others say: “Follow or use this system and you’ll double/tripe/quadruple your productivity” Time Management 2.0 says: “There is no easy way to measure an increase in your productivity, but choose a tangible behavioral goal” The promises that some make are outrageous. Without giving any hint of how the result can be measured, they promise to …
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Others say: “Time management is something you learn once, like riding a bicycle” Time Management 2.0 says: “If you don’t continually upgrade your skills, prepare to fall behind” Fortunately for us, we live in an age of rapid innovation, and there’s hardly a day that goes by without an announcement of some gadget, software program …
Continue reading “Edgy Idea #4 – Never get stuck with what you have today — keep evolving”