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The Art of Productivity
Dear readers: We interrupt the 168 Hours Challenge, going on this week, for this piece from The Huffington Post. If you are new here, welcome! Please poke around through the archives, and if you’d like to join the soon-to-launch monthly newsletter, email me at lvanderkam@yahoo.com to subscribe.
By Laura Vanderkam
Some warm morning, nearly 200 year… read more »
10 ways to embrace the evening hours with little kids
(cross-posted at Gifted Exchange)
My kids are night owls. While I console myself that needing less sleep is often a sign of giftedness, it’s hard on a parent to have a 3-year-old who really will not go to sleep until 10PM (the baby often doesn’t go down until 9PM or later, either).
The net result is that we have some long evenings in our house. While t… read more »
Feeding the Idea Beast
Where do breakthrough ideas come from?
It is a good question. Many of us need to be creative these days for our jobs, giving the idea beast new fodder almost on command. But can you come up with ideas on command? After years of honing the process, I’ve realized that I can trace a lot of my ideas to two activities:
1. Exposing my brain to something new 2. Physic… read more »
The Master Craftsman
A friend recently received his performance review. The verdict was that he was a master craftsman at the tasks associated with his job. The question was, how could he grow from there? Could he build a studio around him?
This is an image that has stuck in my brain, and I think is a useful way to think about a particular challenge of the knowledge economy. Many of us d… read more »
