One Video: How to have better conversation How good are you at conversations? Are you distracted or are you really paying attention? Are you listening to the other person or listening just enough so you reply with something witty? NPR radio host Celeste Headlee has some fantastic points we should be paying attention to make us […]
One article: How not to work The line between work and play is blurring and that’s a really really bad thing! We are not machines, I firmly believe we need time away from work in order for us to actually be the best at our work. One GREAT article: The ‘Brute Force’ Design Process As a […]
Hello! It’s been just over 2 weeks since we arrived in UK, we finally have a place to live for the next 6 months (it even has heating and broadband now!!!). My task this week is now 100% on finding a UX design gig in London. One Article: The Akrasia Effect “Our brains prefers […]
I love my MacBook Pro, I think it’s amazing and I really enjoy doing my work with it. When it got rained on a few months ago and smoke started to come out, I even overcame the temptation to ‘upgrade’ to a smaller screen, since they don’t make 17″ MacBook Pros anymore. Still, I don’t think […]
One of the biggest pain with working in digital media is how easy it is to get distracted. Since I am always ‘connected’ it’s not always easy to remain focused. I’ve been testing with a few new approaches lately and these 3 are working pretty well. 1. Set up E-mail filters 15th June 2013 Update: […]
Dropbox, Google Drive, Box and Skydrive. With so many possibilities and options it’s not easy to know which cloud storage service would be right for you? I’ve spent over 2 days testing out these services with the aim of finding the best tool for online storage and file backup: TL:DR The short answers For a […]
The purpose of this post is to give you an understanding why I found Trello to be so amazing and why I would highly recommend it to be your project management tool.
Here’s my quick review after 6 weeks of using both Text Expander and Alfred as recommended by Back to Work and Jacob Cass.. Alfred Thank you for speeding up my work flow! Previously if i wanted to open a new application, I would using spotlight (Set to list applications only) but it would take around 30 seconds to load […]
I’ve been listening to the Back to Work Podcast with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin for sometime now, always interested to hear how to make more work better and more efficient, there’s so many handy advice in it. Not just on tech but also on being a better person. Highly recommended! but the problem with this show […]