Video games, time, and the labor market
Video games are a fun way to spend the time. I spent many a happy hour as a kid trying to beat Super Mario Brothers, …Read More
Category Archives: Time Management
What to do when your colleagues do not care about their personal lives
I spoke to the Wharton Women in Business group yesterday. These ambitious women at one of the country's top business schools are always fun to …Read More
Weekly relationship priorities
In my TED talk (almost to 2 million views!), I suggest people make priority lists for the next week on Friday afternoons. I also suggest …Read More
Reading Virginia Woolf at a wrestling meet
I spent Saturday morning as I have many a wintry Saturday morning this year: driving to a wrestling meet in some new corner of Pennsylvania. …Read More
Why time flies
As part of writing Off the Clock, I've been reading a lot of literature on time. Robert Grudin's Time and the Art of Living came …Read More
Forward motion in hurry-up-and-wait jobs
Some jobs operate on a predictable rhythm. Meetings and phone calls get scheduled in advance. You know roughly what the "hard landscape" of your day …Read More
Opening a new spreadsheet
I started tracking my time continuously in April of 2015. There was no one event that precipitated it. I'd had a baby in January, and …Read More
Something is better than nothing
Today is one of those days where it's been challenging to maintain good habits. I try to run most days, and I try to blog …Read More
A January miscellany post
We are mostly back on the mend here. The toddler got the stomach bug this weekend while I was in California, and then my husband …Read More
How to write a book in a year (guest post)
(Laura's note: Got a book idea? Of course you do! So does everyone! Getting it written is a different matter. Today's guest post is about …Read More