Motive
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Related: Invest, Intention, Fleeting notes, Think
About time: I updated my Now page.
About time: I updated my Now page.
Finished reading: Training From the Back of the Room! by Sharon L. Bowman 📚
I took a lot of great ideas from this book to make our workshops even more interactive. Recommended reading for all trainers and teachers.
Sí que tens temps, encara que és un recurs que està mal distribuït (igual que els diners).
(Re)plantejar la qüestió del temps és, en realitat, (re)plantejar els models de treball, de salut, d’educació, d’alimentació, de mobilitat, de consum, de reforma horària…
📸 Nos encanta que los planes salgan bien
When was the last time you took an hour just to be with your thoughts?
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Related: Invest, Intention, Fleeting notes, Think
Currently reading: The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris 📚
Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚
In current times, this is a very necessary book (with could have been a lot shorter).
My main takeaway: I am already quite a digital minimalist, but could focus on having more conversations.
After listening to the Micro Monday interview with @sod, I added the Conversation on Micro.blog plugin to my site.
Now, if you have a Micro.blog account (you have one, don’t you?) and you want to comment on a post you found on my site, you have an easy link to take you yo the conversation.
I made it! Mythic level in MTGA.
This resonated with me:
The difference between things and events is that things persist in time; events have a limited duration. A stone is a prototypical “thing”: we can ask ourselves where it will be tomorrow. Conversely, a kiss is an “event.” It makes no sense to ask where the kiss will be tomorrow. The world is made up of networks of kisses, not of stones.
Most ‘things’ in life — this blog, our house, yes, even my life itself, are actually events. Like kisses.
I wish MTGA had an option to quickly copy my opponent’s deck after a game.
Currently reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚
Finished reading: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker PhD 📚
This book made it clear to me how my (bad) sleeping habbits are affecting my quality of life. I really should sleep more hours!
(Reseña en español para los miembros de KENSO Círculo)
I love this idea to schedule your “Uh Oh” moments:
Have you ever had a moment where you look at the state of your work and feel, "uh oh, I'm already halfway through my timeline, and I haven't made as much progress as I should have"?
These are your "uh oh" moments.
The workdays of so many professionals are dictated by urgencies and emergencies.
But there is another way to work, which I call ‘Calm productivity’. This is a major paradigm shift, which not many organisations are willing or able to make.
We can build slack into our lives. We can create cycles so that we don’t need to dance with a crisis around time on a regular basis.
How is it possible that I have to pay 90€ for a digital license key for Microsoft 365 Family, while for only 70€ they will send me a physical box containing the license key at home?
I am thinking about buying a Kindle to use instead of the iPad for reading at night to avoid light exposure before going to bed. What’s kept me away until now is that I trust Apple more than Amazon with my data, but maybe in this case my health should get priority over my principles.
Waiting on a sunny day…
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, 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.