Over at Nerd Vittles, they have posted a series of links on things you can do on your Mac mini. From running ISP services to setting up a computer telephony server, you can do all of them with your Mac mini:
June 21 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Mike (M-E-L) posted a very good article on his development from anxiety on doing stuff, to getting things done without all these feeling after reading Getting Things Done:
June 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»
Steve over Productively Speaking talks about his Getting Things Done (GTD) setup on his Blackberry 7290. He really likes his Blackberry as it can let him handles all email, tasks, outlook notes, and telephone contacts, which all can sync to Microsoft Outlook 2003: ... My GTD tasks go in one folder, “TASKS” in Outlook. I experimented with using tags, but am back to using categories on the Blackberry. I… Continue reading
June 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Leo at LogSense has a hack on improving his Hipster PDA (using 3x5 GTD index card templates). He got himself couple of 1" loose-leaf rings and a standard 2-hole punch with an adjustable guide. By using the loose-leaf ring, you can easily flip back and forth and add new cards easily:
June 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Jason Fried has posted a blog entry at 37signals, the home of Backpack information manager and Ta-da to-do list manager. He mentioned their experiences on how developers spread out across timezones actually helped their productivity. Guess which part of day we get the most work done? The alone part. This is why many people prefer to work either in the early morning or the late nights — they’re not being… Continue reading
June 19 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Bruce Mau Design has written a manifesto which talks about growing. They apply their principles into their motivations and strategies for their studio. Some of them may also can apply to grow your personal capacity and creativity - highlighting several points: ... 15. Ask stupid questions. Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant. ... 19. Work the… Continue reading
June 19 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams, 'The Dilbert Principle' Scott Adams via The Quotations Page
June 18 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Lisa at Management Craft has written a post on basic expectations for managers. I want to highlight couple of them here: Managers should build and maintain positive partnerships with peers, team members, managers and customers. Many frontline managers thought it is only needed to deal with your subordinates, or peers that directly work with you. Managers should also reach out for probing requirements from customers and maintaining positive relationship with other teams… Continue reading
June 18 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Bert over Open Loops talks about how can our nervous system affects productivity. It is quite interesting to see Bert has taken productivity into physical perspective: ... Our autonomic nervous system controls the systems of the body that we don’t think about, including our heart beat/rate, respiration, and digestion. The autonomic nervous system is made up of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. When the parasympathetic nervous system is… Continue reading
June 18 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
June 17 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Fred at A VC has posted five important things around dollars and markets which you should take a note on it: 1. A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow... 2. You will make more money if you take more risk... 3. You can value an asset if you know its cash flows, the timing of them, and can quantify the risks of acheiving those cash flows... 4. Markets are made up… Continue reading
June 17 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Harrycs on his Flickr has posted his way of using how to use his calendar printout and fit into his moleskine notebook. It is a very good way to seperate moleskine ruled pages for todo and note taking, and at the back for time and schedule.
June 17 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»
From lifehack.org's sister site, MyTips Wiki has noted some good tips for Firefox which can increase your Firefox performance greatly. I would like to share the current up-to-date information to readers: How to speed up the rendering of a page? Add the following perference, firefox will render the page immediately:
June 17 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 8 comments»
CNN Money Magazine has a good section on talking about 50 Smartest things to do with your money. The topics are wrap around how to earn more; how to save more; how to spent smater; how to invest better; how to deal with tax etc. There is a part called 15 dumb moves that you shouldn't do - I really liked that part. Also it has some good tools for… Continue reading
June 16 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 3 comments»
The 5S process is a systematic program to increase organization, cleanliness, and standardization on work - The 5S are Seiri (Tidiness), Seiton (Orderliness), Seiso (Cleanliness), Seiketsu (Standardization), and Shitsuk (Discipline): ... "5S" was invented in Japan, and stands for five (5) Japanese words that start with the letter 'S': Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, and Shitsuke. Table 1 shows what these individual words mean. An equivalent set of five 'S' words… Continue reading
June 16 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»
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