Does a clean desk help you work?
A cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, the saying goes -- which may explain why Australian company BHP Billiton’s rule book, leaked …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
The Paradox of Weekends
I’m writing this on Sunday night after a fairly full weekend. While Friday evening was relatively low-key, Saturday and Sunday were not. We drove to …Read More
Round-up: Audio books, a coupon and using weekends well
It's Friday again! Do you know what you're doing this weekend? I'll be doing a long bike ride with kids in tow, weather-permitting. There's more …Read More
Dessert: Another reason to love mornings
It may be the most widely reported diet story of the year. Researchers in Tel Aviv put hundreds of overweight people on one of two …Read More
The To-Ignore List
Last week I posted a link to Peter Bregman’s Lifehacker article on making two lists: a to-do list, and a to-ignore list. The to-ignore list …Read More
Less than 40 minutes per week
I may have found my new favorite data set. The Center on Everyday Lives of Families at UCLA did a study of 32 middle-class, dual-income …Read More
The frictionless labor market
There are two labor markets: the W-2 one, and the 1099 one. W-2s are the tax forms you get if you’re on someone’s payroll. 1099s …Read More
Round-up: Tracking time, your boss’s marriage, etc.
From time to time, I'm asked to recommend productivity or time tracking software. It's a question I've resisted answering for two reasons. One is that …Read More
America’s best days
I recently read Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit. I certainly enjoyed the book as a sports story, but I also enjoyed learning about that period of time …Read More
Time management is like chess
Decades ago, I had a brief interest in chess. I played around with a board and I read through books of the greatest matches. I …Read More