Wasting time playing games

If you like to relax or just simply kill time by playing a computer game, you might as well train your brain while doing it. Games such as chess have always been a favorite for their intellectually challenging properties. Such games are an excellent way of keeping your brain fit. Most people know the rules [...]

Optimizing computer use with shortcuts #1: word processing

In this post I will give examples of how you can significantly quicken your production rate at the computer. When word processing, there’s a literal gold mine of keyboard shortcuts to speed up editing. Since you pretty much only use the keyboard when typing, learning keyboard shortcuts for this area of computer use is particularly [...]

Your Hourly Monetary Opportunity Cost – Intro

In your pursuit to live life optimally it helps a lot to know your hourly monetary opportunity cost. Here I will give a brief description of why this is good to know and how you go about calculating it. I assume you are familiar with the concept of opportunity cost – if not, check it [...]

Schedule your inbox time

Different modes of communication require different modes of attention. To be efficient you have to decide how it is best for you to handle each channel that dishes out stuff for you regularly. Basic old-school examples: landline phone and physical/postal mail. If the phone rings you normally run to answer. It takes a lot of [...]

Wasting time efficiently

A friend recently told me that it is sometimes necessary to be lazy to the point where you get a bad conscience for not doing stuff. This would be necessary to then get going and do things. Now this seems like an inefficient, time wasting and agonizing process if you ask me. Wouldn’t it be [...]