The Mac's Super App
Having been a Mac user now for 14+ years, I've really appreciated the evolution of the operating system over the last 1½ decades, at a time when the desktop has been superseded by...
Productivity
Productivity in an Age of Working From Home
How is your work counted? I mean, literally? In the United States anyway, full-time work[1] has been traditionally split between exempt and non-exempt employment. The exemption here is referring to overtime pay; that is,...
Productive Enough
I've done my fair share of productivity evangelism over the years. Heck, only a few months ago, I espoused the virtues of establishing personalized workflows; not necessarily because they're universal panaceas...
Toolin' for Reducin' Cognitive Overhead
Productivity and self-help is a pretty major literary genre, both in blog post form as well as published books and articles. Over the years, I've written numerous times about various systems I put...
To Wiki is to Explicitly Organize
I've spent an unhealthy amount of time and effort trying out various note-taking apps. In fact, I've chronicled some of those migrations on this blog—more as a warning to avoid...
Appreciation for Spreadsheets
The managerial stereotypes aren't far off the mark. I hate to admit it, but the vast majority of the time spent managing software engineers—when not synchronously communicating with people in-person—is asynchronously...