Life Hack Podcast- Ep 5- Michael Sampson of Foldera
July 31 by Chris Brogan | Uncategorized
Life Hack Podcast- Ep 5- Michael Sampson of Foldera
It’s been a few weeks since we’ve rolled the Life Hack podcast out into your ears, but here it is. I’ve got an interesting interview with Michael Sampson, the Global VP of Word of Mouth Marketing for Foldera. Foldera is a platform for organizing around activities and projects, instead of around specific software or tools. For instance, you can mix calendar elements, tasks, Word docs, PDFs, and emails into an activity folder, and still figure out what’s going on.
It’s a great interview on two counts: Michael Sampson is interesting and engaging. He has his own website with interesting information and thoughts, and he’s got a great product to talk about in Foldera.
The Life Hack podcast is a production of Grasshopper New Media. Lifehack.org is the creation of Leon Ho.
Chris, I really enjoyed our conversation. Thanks for having me on your podcast production!
M.
[...] Michael Sampson (we have interviewed Michael in our life hack podcast) has shared his productivity equation: C – I + R = P, where C is Clarity; I is Interruptions; R is Rested; and P of course is Productivity. He describes a great deal of his tips on interruption removal, which has some great advices: Minimize visual distractions. I absolutely love buying and owning books, and sometimes I get the opportunity to read them. But I have to be careful where my books are located in the office in comparison with my working areas. If I could see them from where I sit and look, it would distract me immensely. It’s like the books call out to me for attention. That’s mighty distracting when a couple of hundred voices start singing in unison! Hence there’s off to the side where I can’t see them unless I intentionally look. Another visual distraction that I’ve sought to minimize is the number and variety of icons on my computer desktop. If there’s a lot of things stored temporarily there, again each calls out for attention. It is much better if they are put into a folder on the desktop, or in a folder somewhere else all together. The key idea is that anything that can introduce new visual cues that will break concentration should be intentionally minimized. [...]