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The Pomodoro Technique: Controlling My Personal Sh!tfit of Stuff.

David Allen’s Getting Things Done is a classic system (shorthand: GTD) for piling up all the things you have to fill your day with and sorting them out in a way that might actually get what needs to get done, done. I like many things about the GTD model. Specifically: Brain dumping all tasks into [...]

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Organizing Your Virtual Documents

Do you know where everything on your machine is? If so, great, you’re one of the lucky few. Everyone around you however, would probably benefit from some structured education on how to effectively organize their file structure for maximum productivity. http://lifehacker.com/#!156196/geek-to-live–organizing-my-documents

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If John Hodgman Can Do It, You Can Fight Procrastination Too.

John Hodgman on “Forcing the Hands” to Fight Procrastination: “Lifehacker 22,393 views, Apr 25, 2011 8:00 AM PROCRASTINATION John Hodgman on ‘Forcing the Hands’ to Fight Procrastination Kevin Purdy — Writer and ‘accidental TV personality’ John Hodgman admits in a podcast interview that he’s a supremely talented procrastinator, being far behind on a book project. [...]

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Polyphasic Sleep, huh?

Polyphasic Sleep, huh?

So I’ve pretty much always had issues with sleep, even since I was a little kid. I remember being small enough to get tucked in, begging for a nightlight, not because I was afraid of the dark (like I pretended), but just because I needed it to read by. I’d hide books under the covers [...]

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Nonexpendable Wealth

Nonexpendable Wealth

Mowing my lawn is a ritual I take quiet pleasure in. I consider it a zen experience. Instead of hiring someone to do it for me, I like to head out and do it myself. When you work entirely online and in largely intangible industries, putting on boots and doing something manual helps to ground [...]

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