Productivity
Methods, technology, environment have enabled massive personal productivity gains for individual knowledge workers and teams.
Collection by Gerrit Eicker
The Guardian
Do yoga, work harder: how productivity co-opted relaxation
18+ min · · Holidays, procrastination and drug-taking were once ways to escape work. Now leisure has been reappropriated to aid work. So is anything actually considered unproductive nowadays? · Shared by 7, including Gerrit Eicker
Fast Company
Your productivity obsession might be making you less productive
3 min · · Productivity might be a necessary evil. But when you focus too much on optimizing your output, it’s easy to lose the bigger picture that keeps you motivated to do that work. · Shared by 75, including Gerrit Eicker, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA
medium.com
How to Make Your iPhone Black and White (And Why You Should)
4 min · · The candy-colored interface on your phone triggers your brain into using it more. Use grayscale mode to make the junk less appealing. · Shared by 10, including billy esquires, Gerrit Eicker, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her)
ANTHONY IANNARINO 🇺🇸
The One Thing You Can Do to Triple Your Productivity
4 min · · Planning three ninety-minute blocks per day (roughly half the day), will make you one of the most productive people you know. If you want to triple your output, start by planning your weeks and days. · Shared by 29, including Lilach Bullock, Tony Hughes, Gerrit Eicker, Leanne HoaglandSmith, Tom Connor, Matt Heinz
Fast Company
What the most productive people keep on their desks
2 min · · The items you keep nearby have an impact on your work performance. This is what you should keep—and what you should ditch. · Shared by 181, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Doug Sundheim, 瑞拿頭, Gerrit Eicker, Guy Kawasaki, Thomas Power, Ines Bieler, Lukas Stickelberger, John Hall, Yvette Dubel
Ray Wenderlich
Scrum Of One: How to Bring Scrum into your One-Person Operation
16+ min · · Are you an indie developer who’s looking to get more done? Bring the power of Scrum to your app company with Ten Kettles’ one-person Scrum. · Shared by 13, including Vincenzo Tremonte, Gerrit Eicker
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Office design: the latest trends in workspace architecture
16+ min · · Corporate identity is expressed through workspace design. Draw inspiration from the latest design trends and evolving ideas across the realm of office design. Attract the most eager millennials and accomodate the most seasoned experts into your team. W... · Shared by 11, including Gerrit Eicker
The Guardian
Innocence lost: What did you do before the internet?
10 min · · People born in the late 1970s are the last to have grown up without the internet. Social scientists call them the Last of the Innocents. Leah McLaren ponders a time when our attention was allowed to… · Shared by 87, including Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Ines Bieler, Fern, Ste Davies, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Mike Davidson, Gerrit Eicker, Mark Kaigwa
Inc.
Want to Power Up Your Productivity? Neuroscience Says Leverage the 'Coffee Shop Effect'
2 min · · Something counterintuitive perks up your productivity at the local coffee shop (and it's not the java). · Shared by 24, including Gerrit Eicker
Harvard Business Review
The Art of Persuasion Hasn’t Changed in 2,000 Years
5 min · · What Aristotle can teach us about making an argument. · Shared by 171, including Vikram Dutt, Steve Woodruff, Stephanie A Kowalski, rudolph regter, Ron Sela, Antonio Vieira Santos, John Tasioulas, Katja Evertz, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Charles Duhigg, Howard Getson, John Maeda, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gerrit Eicker, Jacob Jarnvall, Jonathan Kogan, Nick Floro
kottke.org
Walking, the easy superpower
2 min · · One of the very few productivity tips I trust 100% (ok, probably the only one) is the recommendation for getting up and walking · Shared by 63, including Hans Bickhofe, Mathew Ingram, Gerrit Eicker, Thomas Power