From the category archives:

Productivity

Priorities are Misleading

December 18, 2008

One of the traditional ways of managing workload is to organize tasks based on their priority. Tasks of high priority make their way up the work pile, and tasks of low priority sink down to the bottom of the pile.
The rationale behind this is that if you spend your time attending to the tasks with [...]

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To-Do List and To-Keep-Doing List

December 16, 2008

There’s a difference between tasks you need to get done, and tasks you need to keep doing. Mixing them up on a single list is detrimental to both types of task and, therefore, to your own progress.
What’s the difference between the two? And why should they be kept apart?
To-Do List
The tasks that have a place [...]

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Action Orientation

December 14, 2008

We’ve reached a point in human history where the information available to us has reached the highest it has ever been, and it continues to grow exponentially. This has made life extremely complicated. There is a lot of information to absorb and that requires a great deal of mental digestion before we can make sense [...]

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