Productivity

Re-Automating

Programmers are a curious bunch. We’ll spend hours or days working on a solution for ourselves that’ll save us mere minutes. Part of it is just the challenge of stripping down tasks to their bare minimum, even if the total time we save from ever running that task adds up to just a small fraction [...]

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Bit Literacy – Naming Files, Revisited

I recently finished reading Mark Hurst’s new book, Bit Literacy, and I definitely recommend it. It’s a quick read, but it’s one of those books you should revisit time and again. Seth Godin of The Dip fame (also highly recommended) calls this “…The Elements of Style for the digital age,” and that may be true, [...]

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Focus

I’m not sure where I’ve heard it first, but without focus, genius is impossible. I’ll take this one step further. Without focus, very little is possible. Without focus, you are a slave to impulse. Without focus, you are a follower, and will be a poor leader. I am realizing more and more each day, that [...]

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Simplify, Simplify, Simplify

I have spent more time in long meetings than I care to remember, where people spend hours trying to complicate things that should be so simple. I cannot begin to count how many hours people waste rehashing the same points over and over. If something cannot be summarized on one paragraph or less, in one [...]

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