Tag: productivity
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Link: A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home
“the robust, nearly two-year study showed an astounding productivity boost among the telecommuters equivalent to a full day’s work. Turns out work-from-home employees work a true full-shift (or more) versus being late to the office or leaving early multiple times a week and found it less distracting and easier to concentrate at home.” Original source:…
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Link: Re-Hermit
“I can run a lot of windows on my screen, but eventually the screen fills up and I’m doing more clicking than viewing just to see everything that’s going on in my head. Which means that less is going on in my head because I’m doing more clicking than looking. Something like that.” Original source:…
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Link: Why isn’t digital fixing the productivity puzzle?
“In addition, stagnant wages had implications for limiting demand growth. In our sector analysis, we found weak demand dampened productivity growth through other channels than investment, such as economies of scale and a subsector mix shift.” Original source: Why isn’t digital fixing the productivity puzzle?
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Link: Building the convincing PaaS business case
Pretty good check-in on current studies showing productivity and ROI from using PaaS. Original source: Building the convincing PaaS business case
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Link: Productivity in 2017: What we learned from analyzing 225 million hours
Writers work in the morning, coders in the afternoon. Link to original
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Link: Hacking Your To Do List with Your Calendar
Explained like this, this makes a lot a sense: “When accepting a task, this philosophy proposes immediately allocating time in the calendar to accomplish it. Consider the due date, the time required, and the relative importance. Then book the slot…. This extra step reinforces the rigid time constraint immediately, not later when I’m staring at…
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Office, messaging and verbs — Benedict Evans
“You don’t actually send email or make a spreadsheet – you analyze, delegate, report, confer, decide, track and so on. ” Office, messaging and verbs — Benedict Evans
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I feel like any moment where I’m not getting input is a wasted moment. Podcaster Myke, http://overca.st/CKsmAta2Y
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Creative People Say No
parislemon: Kevin Ashton: Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know. We are not taught to say “no.” We are taught not…
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A round up of why you should stand up more at your desk
A round up of why you should stand up more at your desk
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No creativity needed to keep the trains running on time
[M]anagement’s function isn’t about creating, but rather “ensuring that repetitive tasks were completed, improving economic efficiency, maximizing labor and machine productivity. Not a lot of creativity is needed; in fact, it might even be inefficient.” And as I like to point out: he didn’t actually make the trains run on time. No creativity needed to…
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Two Maxims that have served me well
I have two personal maxims that generally apply to all situations in my life: Life’s too short to live by them rules. What the fuck else am I doing with my time? The first is especially useful when you’re fucking around with some stupid technology or instructions that want you to do something tedious –…
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Procrastination
I have that certain problem with procrastination, the one where I do all sorts of things of little to high value instead of THE one thing (or things) that really needs to get done. It’s sort of like, I’m too lazy to do the simple things I’m procastinating with without something more important to avoid.