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 [...]

Optimize your productivity using the Pomodoro Technique

If you optimize the time you spend on producing whatever-it-is-that-you-produce, you get more time available to do the stuff you actually care about. But many of us struggle to actually sit down and get our stuff done. We might have our list of things to do, but we simply don’t do it. Instead we procrastinate and [...]