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Maintain Your Lists
An often overseen, seemingly small structural mistake is to write our tasks too brief and abbreviated on our to do-list. I experienced the effects of this as recently as today, when I was following up...
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Time slots
13 water towers by Bernd and Hilla Becher Time is a fleeting concept and somehow we still try to grasp it. We try to make it fit into how we see and organize our work. More and more, I have categorized...
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Let’s leave the loop of unrecorded tasks
Illustration by Hiroshi Manabe. Found here. There is so much going on in my head. Working on one thing, I come to think of another. Waiting in line to check in for my flight, I find myself thinking of...
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How my Mutewatch saves me from getting stuck in emails
I have had my grey Mutewatch for a little more than six months now. Already, I have become somewhat addicted to some of its functions. As I give talks all day, a couple of days a week, I seldom have...
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Free Time
David Stiernholm himself How I think about the concept of time changes often, depending on what I experience this particular week or what my needs are this very moment. Right now, I am on vacation. A...
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Was life more quiet in the old days?
The site of Thoreau’s cabin marked by a cairn in 1908. When I speak to people about structure, they sometimes say “Isn’t it so that there is more of everything nowadays; especially since you are...
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Different times
Black marble by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration One sort of time can be so different from another. Just because we have plenty of time, this does not necessarily mean that...
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Watch your computer write what you think
Picture from but does it float. My latest favourite tool for simplifying my workday does some of my writing for me. I can watch my computer write what I think and what needs to be written, but I do not...
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How Bluma Zeigarnik can help us focus
Petri dish painting by Klari Reis found here. At the moment my mind keeps going to a certain Bluma Zeigarnik. You see, she was fascinated by the phenomenon “loose ends”. If there is something that...
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This is how much you lose by multi-tasking
When we try to do many things at once, when we are multi-tasking, we lose time and are less productive and efficient than when we focus on one task at a time. Sure, this sounds probable. But what...
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