Productivity tips
I spend a lot of time in thinking about how I can achieve more in less time. Some of that effort has gone into thinking about the tools I use on a daily basis (e.g. task management apps, paper notebooks, or programmer's editors). Some of it has been spent trying processes to achieve more in less time, such as the Pomodoro technique, Agile development, and the LEAN startup movement.
They all have an important role to play...
Articles
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Life without a smart phone
Nine months ago I realised I was spending my life keeping up with "crap on the Internet". I ditched my iPhone, bought an iPod Touch and a cheap Nokia phone, and loaded up Instapaper with interesting things to read. There was enough interest in how my experiment would work out to warrant a follow up, and this is it. Am I more productive? Am I happier?
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Act on great articles
I read a lot of great articles in Instapaper on my iPod, but I don't remember all the lessons I learn. I need a way to get these ideas into my todo list so I can act on them later. I need a good workflow. Instapaper and Things integrate nicely, but the feature is well hidden.
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Ditch your smart phone
Why do we find checking email and Twitter on our smart phones so compelling? The content of both is largely rather dull, and yet if you leave me alone in a pub for 30 seconds (literally) you'll catch me whipping out my iPhone and checking my email.
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Tools of the trade
Peter Cooper of Ruby Inside recently asked if people wanted to write about the things that they use in their development work. So I jumped squarely onto that band wagon...
