October 2012
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The science behind why better energy management is...
We live in a culture that seems obsessed with being productive.
While increasing our output and doing more with our time is certainly an admirable goal, according to Tony Schwartz, author of Be Excellent at Anything, that misguided approach is actually liable to hurt your productivity.
How so?
Without real restoration and rejuvenation throughout the day, people (knowingly) hold themselves...
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“Trust yourself. If you are passionate about your idea you can do more than you...”
– Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp, co-founders of Birchbox, giving the scoop at goop about starting your own business.
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How Wistia Builds Its Competitive Advantage
@allanbranch Yup, and we love it.
— Chris Savage (@csavage) September 18, 2012
Wistia provides super easy, distinctive video hosting, management, and marketing for businesses. We wanted to find out from co-founder and CEO, Chris Savage, how Wistia uses iDoneThis and why they love it.
In the past year, Wistia has gone through a growth spurt, doubling to a total of fifteen people. Chris wrote a...
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“How To Create Time:
1. Eliminate or reduce media
2. Work offline.
3. Do...”
– Read the full tips from Caterina Fake, not just on how to create time, but how to work with joy.
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“A growing body of research suggests that paying attention to the body clock, and...”
– Sue Shellenbarger explores The Peak Time for Everything for WSJ.
Some takeaways: Nap around 2pm. Tired times make for better open-ended thinking. And retweeting chances increase between 3-6 pm.
Circadian and natural rhythms, and thus peak times for doing stuff, depend on the individual. Read...
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“Stop planning to do that thing you want to do and just do it!”
– Felicia Day, Lifehacker, I’m Felicia Day, and This is How I Work
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How Any.DO Marks Getting In Sync as Done
Any.DO is an elegant task management application available for Android, iPhone, and the Chrome browser. While the app has received praise for its simplicity and ability to sync across platforms, the Tel Aviv-based startup found that it needed some management tools to synchronize itself, with one of its founders, Omer Perchik, relocating to San Francisco. Plus, the company, which started in 2010,...
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The art of getting stuff done without bossing...
The availability of seed-stage funding today means that there are a ton of first-time entrepreneurs out there assembling teams and building companies without any experience running a team or managing people. Building a team in this environment is especially difficult because funded companies typically grow teams prior to sustainability or product-market fit. It’s hard to steer the team in...
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“Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie...”
– Ray Bradbury, in an interview with the Paris Review.
Maybe we should make an iDoneThis theme song out of these words, they’re so apt.
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Thanks to a study by Japanese scientists at Hiroshima University’s Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, titled “The Power of Kawaii: Viewing Cute Images Promotes a Careful Behavior and Narrows Attentional Focus”, you can be guilt-free when looking at photos of ridiculously cute animals at work.
Published in the journal, PLOS ONE, the study found that viewing...
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Leverage the Progress Principle with iDoneThis
We’ve written before about the secret to happiness and motivation at work. Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and psychologist Steven Kramer wrote a whole book about it called The Progress Principle. They found that the number one driver of a positive inner work life, the key to motivated, engaged, and productive employees, is making progress on meaningful work, even if that progress...
September 2012
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Here’s the weekly round-up of the best of the blog & links we’ve shared on the interwebs! Happy Friday!
How Mozilla uses iDoneThis to communicate and create.
The key to building an awesome team? Make employees feel like superheroes.
Stillpower, not willpower, is the key to flow and getting in the zone.
In case you need to read an article to remind you to please, take a real lunch...
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How Mozilla Foundation Navigates Across Teams
The Mozilla Foundation has a super software team working on projects that range from Popcorn (a video remixing application) to Thimble (an easy-to-use web page maker) to Open Badges (a digital badges system that support learning and achievement).
Developer Jon Buckley talked with us about the struggle to align three teams when Mozilla wanted to integrate Badges into both Popcorn and Thimble....
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figure out priorities with a productivity matrix →
As any incredibly productive person will tell you, it boils down to knowing what your priorities are and systematically attacking your tasks with a focused mind. The one resource in the world that is common to millionaire CEOs and the average Joe is time.
We stumbled across this great tip and illustration of Stephen Covey’s time management matrix from the blog of an iDoneThis user,...
