Background noise
A moderate level of background noise enhances creativity.
Related: Environment, Noise pollution
A moderate level of background noise enhances creativity.
Related: Environment, Noise pollution
An increase of 10 dB of noise in the workplace reduces detailed work productivity by 5%. Noise pollution doesn’t affect your effort, but does lower your ability to think, so you don’t notice the damage.
Related: Environment
An increase of 10 dB of noise in the workplace reduces detailed work productivity by 5%. Noise pollution doesn’t affect your effort, but does lower your ability to think, so you don’t notice the damage.
Related: Environment, Background noise
Block two hours a day for important but non-urgent work to increase happiness and productivity.
Related: Work cycle, Time to flow, Implementation intentions, Intention
Whenever I show the new iPhone 13 Mini I bought a few weeks ago to friends or family, often I get the same reaction: “Nice! But it’s really small…”.
Yes, it is small, but that is exactly what I want from my mobile phone.
I know that the general consensus about phone sizes is to get the biggest screen possible in the smallest device possible, but my phone use is atypical.
For many people, and especially the younger generations, the phone is their main communication device. It is their most used ‘screen’, on which they communicate with friends, watch videos, write their notes, read information and many things more.
If I look at the ‘screens’ in my life, my phone comes at the fourth place.
My main ‘screen’ is my computer. I not only use it for my work, but also for watching videos, playing games, writing, messaging and reading in my free time.
My second most used ‘screen’ is my iPad, which I use mainly in our living room and at the patio. This device is mainly for information consumption: books, feeds, saved articles, videos, messaging and social networks. I also use it a lot for looking up information.
At the third position, we have our television. I don’t watch a lot of TV, but still use it more than my phone.
That leaves my phone on the fourth position. I hardly ever use it when I am at home, as I usually have a way bigger screen available. For me, the most important function is to be mobile and easy to carry with me. That is why I chose the smallest possible device.
I’m not so sure about this.
This hit me at just the right moment as this morning I was thinking I should keep more in touch with my friends. I already texted one of them to get together for lunch next week. Thanks @Patrickrhone!
So that has me thinking a lot about friendships – especially amongst guys. We tend not to prioritize them. We tend to think that to get together there has to be a reason involved. We have to have an event or some purpose to it. A run or a round of golf. Making a batch of beer or building a deck. Or we need to get the families together, let our partners talk and kids play. Dinner or a barbecue. Often, we guys never seem to think of getting together “just because”. For no reason at all other than to connect. Have a chit chat about anything under the sun. Or, sit in silence together and just be.
Writing is the best medium for deep thinking.
Related: Word choice, Originality, Walk, Reading is digesting
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
Related: Productive stress, Self-talk
Most marketing techniques only work when selling marketing techniques.
📸 Day 16: Time
Seconds and minutes don’t matter.
Give yourself permission to be human.
- It can be easy to consider a temporary habit a "failure" because it wasn't permanent, but a temporary habit can still add value to one's life.
- Temporarily doing an activity every day can help one decide if that activity really reflects their desires and priorities.
- A temporary habit can help someone build a skill, even if it doesn't need to be continued long-term to retain the skill.
I had an absolutely fabulous boring morning. I had nothing to do, so I simply walked though the city letting my mind wander and observing people on the street and anything else that caught my attention.
I should frame this quote and put it in a very visible place in my office:
If you think technology will solve your problems then you don’t understand technology – and, you don’t understand your problems.
— Laurie Anderson
Work in a daylit workspace.
Related: Environment
Add some art to your workplace for reduced stress and increased creativity and productivity.
Related: Inspiration, Environment, Wandering mind, Joy
🙋♂️ Hablando del #libroic, tengo una pregunta:
Si el método es el factor clave para un proceso de Inteligencia Colectiva y además es preferible que todos los pasos del proceso sean colectivos, ¿cómo podemos asegurarnos que el método sea implementado correctamente, si este se decide en un proceso colectivo?
Siempre me gusta participar en eventos donde haya una gran capacidad humana en la sala. Es lo que pasó ayer en la presentación del #libroic de @arey.
Dejo aquí el excelente resumen de @ictlogist.
📸 Day 10: Pot
Usually I focus on the plants, but today I made an exception.
Reduce mobile phone use by one hour a day to improve life satisfaction, well-being and health.
Related: Implementation intentions, Intention, Interruptions, Environment
Currently reading: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker PhD 📚
Finished reading: How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler 📚
This was a hard one to read. I will probably make a few adjustments on my reading process after having gone through the book, but I would have preferred reading a summery over reading the whole book.
Me ha encantado el último episodio del podcast Productividad y Salud de @fjrascon y @jlgomezp sobre el «exocortex».
Desde hace tres años uso Roam Research después de haber pasado por NVAlt, Evernote y Notes. Recomiendo a José Luis que prueba Logseq en lugar de Roam Research.
📸 Day 5: Earth
View from planet earth.
So true:
Productivity was once about time management. Increasingly it is about distraction management.
The only thing you should manage are your intentions.