Tag: Productivity
How to Find More Hours in the Day
We’ve all wished for more than 24 hours in a day, but short of developing the powers to bend the laws of space and time, that’s not going to happen. But one thing we can do is bend the ways we use the hours at our disposal. If you lookRead More
Multitasking: Friend or Foe?
Recently, Harvard Business Review blogger David Silverman wrote a piece in defense of multitasking. Studies have shown that constant computer use, jumping back and forth between email and news sites and Facebook can lower our attention spans, decrease our productivity, and stress us out. But Silverman argues that multitasking isRead More
Safari 5 – The World’s Most Productive Web Browser
Editor’s Note: Peter North, one of WorkAwesome’s newest contributors, is at Apple’s WWDC all week. He’ll provide little snippets for our readers to digest over the course of the week – to pass on what Apple and its developer community has to offer in terms of making all of usRead More
Will You Buy The iPhone 4?
The big technology news this week (so far) is that the iPhone 4 will soon arrive. After all the hype and, well…hyperbole, we’ve got a good idea of what it will and won’t do. Smartphones and mobile devices have been long touted as a productivity savior or suck as theRead More
iPhone 4 Adds New Features – and New Distractions
Editor’s Note: Peter North, one of WorkAwesome’s newest contributors, is at Apple’s WWDC all week. He’ll provide little snippets for our readers to digest over the course of the week – to pass on what Apple and its developer community has to offer in terms of making all of usRead More
It’s Okay to Stare
Imagine stopping in the middle of a busy work day, kicking up your feet on your desk, sitting back, arms cradling the back of the head in daydream mode. Now imagine that this is one of the best things you could do in the course of a busy work day.Read More
Procrastination Hack: Aim for Nonzero
Whenever his clients had trouble understanding the meaning of their dreams, Sigmund Freud would ask them, “What does this dream definitely not mean?” Once they started discussing invalid interpretations of their dreams, the inertia was broken, and they would transition without effort into examining the actual meaning of those dreams.
What Do You Do To Relax?
Wow. Another week is upon us…already. The weekends seem to fly by without so much as a pause (unless you take the time to make the pauses happen) – and before you know it you’re back at the grind again. Hopefully you’ve gone back to work with a fresh setRead More