What is mindfulness? Living in the present moment, keeping an open awareness, and maintaining a nonjudging stance. The more mindful you are, the less reactive and stressed you will be. The more mindful you are, the more you can experience the little and big joys your everyday life offers you.
David Allen’s GTD seeks mind like […]
In this post on enterprise applications and social media, Hugh MacLeod brings up the issue of hierarchies:
Big businesses will always have trouble with anything that subverts hierarchies, for hierarchy is the glue that holds large organizations together. Small businesses have an easier time with blogs and whatnot, for there are fewer layers to keep happy. […]
Despite the alarming headline on this morning’s Wall Street Journal article Instant Messaging Invades the Office, it’s actually overall positive about how instant messaging changes workplace communications. Looks to me like print media journalists are starting to understand that access to a lot of information and to our colleagues is not a bad thing — […]
Are we overloaded and overconnected, checking email like rats pushing a cocaine lever, too distracted and unfocused to get anything done? Maybe. Or maybe there’s a way to be productive other than single-tasking and firewalled attention: connected mode productivity.
In connected mode, you stay in near-constant touch with colleagues and maintain a broad awareness of what’s […]
Are you confident? If you’re like me, you’re confident about some tasks and goals, and not so confident about others. I’m a confident blogger but a not-so-confident book author. I’m a confident hiker, but I didn’t feel so confident last week on vacation in Rocky Mountain National Park when we confronted some really slippery and […]
Nielsen says “write original articles based on deep thought and research” while Scoble says “link a lot.” Each has its place. They represent two different ways of meeting the world: knowledge mode and connected mode. At different times and in different circumstances, you’ll probably choose one or the other — though the web makes connected […]
Are you a baby boomer, a Gen Xer, a Millennial? An Echo Boomer? Part of the Silent Generation, that came before the boomers? Ryan Healy of Employee Evolution did a nice guest post for Web Worker Daily about what Gen Y (a.k.a. the Millennials) expect from work. Only problem is that’s what a lot of […]
New name, new theme, new plans for blogging:
Eliminated the daily del.icio.us links posting because I want to focus on writing full articles again. You can follow my del.icio.us links using the RSS feed.
Using a minimalist theme that I developed based on Sandbox to put the emphasis on the content and ideas rather than any fancy […]
