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Tips, tools and techniques to help you be more productive at work
By default, most email programs sort email by most recent first, with unread messages shown in larger or bolder font. The result? Our attention is often hijacked by the latest thing arriving at our desks. But there’s no reason to chain yourself to the default sort order. Could sorting your email inbox a different way help preserve focus, improve personal organization and reduce stress?
Do we really know how good decisions get made? Gary Klein dissects ten common claims about the “right” way to make decisions and shows that none of them hold true in complex, ambiguous and dynamic situations.
The Shallows is a thoughtful meditation on what the new tools of the Internet Age have in store for the way we live, think, and work. But despite all the hype behind e-readers, online databases, search engines, and real-time streams, Nick Carr is skeptical that these technologies will improve the quality of our thoughts and discussions.
Ideally, we’d like to be able to gather all of our project materials together in one place, but most computer systems don’t let us do that easily. Here are a few tricks to help.
The first question you ask yourself when getting a new message is, “What is this about? How is this relevant?” Once you figure that out, you’ve established the project context for that item. The next step is capturing that context so that you never have to think about those questions again.