Archive for November, 2006

Cornell Method PDF Generator

Cornell Note Taking Style has some uniqueness on the system - it has: note taking area to record meaningful notes, a cue column for reducing your notes to clues for reviewing and reciting, and a summaries section to summarize page of notes.

Study Smarter has a quick online PDF generator to generate such custom sheets: blank (Cornell Style), ruled, or graph style.

You can also enter your name, class… » Continue

November 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: cornell, template | 1 comment»

40 facts about Sleep you probably didn’t know

This is not a post with full of tips, but it contains some very interesting facts about sleep. Couple of them catch my eyes:

Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you’re sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you’re still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day.

I fall asleep in less than five minutes sometimes… » Continue

November 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: fact, sleep | 6 comments»

Getting Great Attitude

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude.
I like fun.
—Colleen C. Barrett

Those of us who have been charged with hiring others, have very likely been taught to “look for someone with a great attitude; you can train them in all the skills they’ll need.”

Good advice, but just the beginning.

Here’s something to consider; attitude is a result of something. If a prospective candidate comes to you with… » Continue

November 30 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: attitude, environment, hiring, optimism, workplaces | 4 comments»

Granularity for students

People who think about hacking their lives and their work often speak of “granularity.” It’s a curious word. The online Oxford English Dictionary offers only “granular condition or quality” as a definition. A more helpful definition comes from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications: “The extent to which a larger entity is subdivided. For example, a yard broken into inches has finer granularity than a yard broken… » Continue

November 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Productivity, strategy, task | 25 comments»

Essential List of Tutorials, How-to, and Screencast for Quicksilver

For Mac OS X users, Quicksilver is probably one of the best god-send productivity applications. What’s it? It’s a launcher and indexer which you can do actions and interfaces with software and applications with just keystrokes away.

Getting started on Quicksilver basic is easy. There are some hidden powers and advanced features that you may want to understand and use to get maximum productivity though. This post is a collection… » Continue

November 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: list, mac, Productivity, software, tutorial | 2 comments»

Survival Rules For Your Company’s Holiday Party

Company party is around the corner. Henry Balanon suggests that you shouldn’t behave like you are in other normal parties. There are 10 guidelines in the article:

Don’t be the drunk.
Don’t bring the drunk.
Don’t dress like an idiot.
Don’t stuff your face.
Don’t talk business all night.
Don’t tip badly.
Don’t tell inappropriate jokes.
Don’t hit on your co-workers or bosses.
Don’t drink and drive.
Leave extra clothes in your car.

And yeah, most of them are common sense… » Continue

November 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: behavior, company, party | 5 comments»

Book Review: What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting

A Ted Demopoulos book published by Kaplan Publishing, 2007, 211 pages. Nonfiction, General Business, Blogging and Podcasting.

Ted Demopoulos has had a long and distinguished career in the business community. He has advised such companies as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola. He has an extensive speaking background in and is a sought after guest at business and technology focused events.

Well, enough with the flattery and on with the review.

If you… » Continue

November 28 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: blogging, book, podcasting, review | no comments»

Google Calendar Todo Integration

Remember The Milk has added a support on integrating their software into Google Calendar, with add, edit, complete functionality on the tasks so you don’t have to leave your Google Calendar page:

We know that many of you are managing your tasks with Remember The Milk and your events with Google Calendar, and we thought it would be very cool if we could bring the two together. This new feature… » Continue

November 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Productivity, software, todo | 6 comments»

Organize your RSS Feeds and Optimize your Readflow

Marshall Kirkpatrick, a former TechCrunch editor, shares his way of organizing his feed. As his main workflow was around breaking news of Web services, he needed to read thousands of RSS feeds and with that his workflow needs to be optimized:

The single most helpful tool for me in my efforts to blog about news events first has been an RSS to IM/SMS notification tool. I use Zaptxt to subscribe… » Continue

November 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: organization, rss, software | no comments»

How to work from home

Matthew Stibbe at his blog Bad Language talks about his tips on working from home. Compared to his big office, he said working from home has its advantage and freedom, but there are couple of things that need to be taken care of:

Separate phone and fax.
Keep work and home separate.
Stay green.
Office stuff.
Business class IT.
Everywhere is your office.
Be businesslike.
Be like a small big business.
Build your network.
Insurance and tax.

Highlight from me would… » Continue

November 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: workfromhome, workplace | 3 comments»

Workouts Can Help Depression

Forbes.com has an article on suggesting that exercises such as workouts or jogging can help beating the depression. On the recent study:

Blumenthal was lead author on a much-publicized study released five years ago that found that just ten months of regular, moderate exercise outperformed a leading antidepressant (Zoloft) in easing symptoms in young adults diagnosed with moderate to severe depression.

And another study released earlier this year, by researchers at the… » Continue

November 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: depression, exercise, health | 3 comments»

Putting Your Trust in . . . Trust

Trust is an essential component in almost all dealings between human beings, other than outright hostile ones like wars and terrorism. It is certainly vital for the proper running of any organization, as well as for almost all the components of trade and commerce. Lack of trust between trading partners undermines the proper functioning of business. Mistrust is a major cause of excessive (and unnecessary) workload on leaders, since the… » Continue

November 27 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: business-ethics, civilized-work, collaboration, commitment, corporate-culture, empowerment, Hamburger-Management, honesty, innovation, integrity, leadership, Lifehack, Management, micro-management, motivation, office-politics, relationships, teamwork, trust, work, work-life, workstyle | 2 comments»

My Life Planning Model

(photo by Drunken Monkey Photography). I thought I’d explain a little more in detail about how I plan my life, and what tools I use to achieve my goals. I like to separate my thoughts on planning and organizing into two levels: upstack and downstack. I often talk about Getting Things Done (GTD) as a good downstack framework. But this post will be about my upstack efforts, and… » Continue

November 25 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: 7habits, compass, covey, framework, gtd, planning, upstack | 6 comments»

Limit your word count when making a point

Once in a while, I receive emails with long paragraphs. After I read through an email like that, I usually ask myself: “Okay, does he mean this, or that?”

There was a time when I sat down and read through my archive in my mailbox and tried to understand the difference between huge emails and smaller emails, I came up with a conclusion - large emails confuse me more than… » Continue

November 24 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: article, Communication, email, less, writing | 11 comments»