Category: Productivity

Wrangling your emails: Invites and CCs

Meeting invites; CCs In my previous post, I went to great lengths to persuade us that not all emails are equal – today we’ll put this philosophy into practice to simplify our lives. Initially, we’ll look at two email types – on the opposite end of the ‘urgency’ spectrum – on the one end is… Continue reading Wrangling your emails: Invites and CCs

Wrangling your emails: Divide and Conquer – intro

An Introduction2023 Whilst email is hardly new or sexy in 2024 2023, it’s (probably) still the most used communication method for organisations (both inter- and intra-organisation). Email is seen as both a boon and a bane – it takes only a few seconds to generate and send, and simultaneously for the recipient it takes from… Continue reading Wrangling your emails: Divide and Conquer – intro

Pondering Studs Terkel’s quote on ‘Work’

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. Studs Terkel Wow – that’s really powerful and if I’m honest I don’t always feel… Continue reading Pondering Studs Terkel’s quote on ‘Work’

Wrangling your email: Divide and Conquer – actions

Handling your actions In a previous post, the focus was on preserving our energy with different email types we frequently receive. The principle was to setup different folders for meeting invites and for CCs, and then to check the invites folder much more frequently than the CC folder. Today, we’ll look at productive ways to… Continue reading Wrangling your email: Divide and Conquer – actions

Thoughts on the ‘Monthly Method’ as a productivity system

What? I recently stumbled upon the Monthly Method site (and podcast!) and really liked how Polina Bee innovatively applies tried-and-tested techniques from the Scrum framework to personal goal setting and productivity. Note that there is a paid coaching service available – I don’t get any benefit from recommending the service, although as someone with a… Continue reading Thoughts on the ‘Monthly Method’ as a productivity system

About remembering those amazing ideas

It’s 2:16 am. You’re sound asleep … or more accurately were sound asleep. A brilliant business idea just flashes through your mind (or perhaps a solution to that complex problem from work or school), and you’re giddy with excitement. You tell yourself that you’ll remember this jewel in the morning…. except that by 8am, its… Continue reading About remembering those amazing ideas