Productivity
Systems, habits, workflows, and personal optimization
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Productivity of Decision Making
Decisions can be paralyzing when you have to make them. Even more so when you don’t have the information you need to make an informed decision. In the day-to-day work of programming we make decisions all the time. However the decisions we either don’t have answers for of don’t have the power to make ourselves…
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Morning Routines for Success
The morning is probably the best time of day to get things done for yourself before work and stress start to derail your day. When you’re trying to accomplish something big finding a way to take advantage of these early morning hours can really ramp up your productivity. The quiet morning hours can be your…
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Productivity Research
As part of a project to release a tool for productivity I am reading, researching and testing various concepts and tools. The goal is to compile all this information into a couple of reports and launch a newsletter, website and write some software based on mashing together some of these concepts. Colum, Heather and I…
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Make Reading Inevitable
One of my big goals this year is to read one book every 10 days. That’s 36 books to read before Christmas. Inevitable thinking is about asking one question: “What can I do to make the outcome I want INEVITABLE?” The phrasing of that question prompts you to think about things differently. Instead of just…
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Practice, Homeostasis, Resolutions and the Path to Mastery
It’s that time of year again when everyone is making ambitious new years resolutions. I started by re-reading one of my favourite books: Mastery is about the journey – an endless one. Taking comfort in the practice, ritual and repetition of the fundamentals while endlessly pushing the edge of your skills and knowledge. Something that’s…
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Adjusting to Fewer Blogs
A couple weeks ago I drastically downsized my list of subscribed blogs. Going from skimming 200+ blog posts down to fewer than 10 per day. It has actually made quite a difference. The time saved was used to read more books, which I’m happy to say has worked out. Being disconnected from the news has…
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Tele 10 Finished
One more thing to knock off the bucket list. Yesterday Heather and I finished the Tele 10 race in St. John’s. My time was good considering zero training runs over the last few months. I was counting on the adaptation to Calgary altitude to help me power through the race. That seemed to work. At…
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Time Audit Surprise
When you measure things you can manage them – Words of wisdom from Peter Drucker. Every time I have made the effort to measure something whether it be calories, carbs, miles run, heart rate, cash flow, net worth or weight there is always a surprise in what the numbers reveal. Recently I did a one…
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Time Audit
It can be eye opening to measure things for real whether it is calories or carbohydrates, or reps and weight, or cash flow and net worth. Perception is a tricky thing and the spread between reality and perception can be wide. With that in mind last week I did an audit of every hour of…
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Father’s Day
This was my first Father’s Day as a father. Man, that’s still kind of weird to say. Ada’s personality is starting to show through. She’s going to be a handful and tornado of energy to manage.
