3-2-1: The excuses we live by, how to handle your mistakes, and when productivity doesn't matter
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3-2-1: The excuses we live by, how to handle your mistakes, and when productivity doesn't matter
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/postman.pdf.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.
About a happy man –Donald Knuth’s approach to email
One of the worst mistakes we ever made was making email instantaneous. We should have built in a two-hour buffer unless you flagged the email as time-sensitive or urgent. Why is that? Because now everybody has to check their email every 10 or 15 minutes on the off chance that someone has sent them a time-sensitive email. So the burden falls on the ... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
David Allen’s carefully organized lists don’t help the project manager who must reply to dozens of emails an hour.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Despite my thinking of myself as the kind of person who got things done, it grew painfully clear that the things I got done most diligently were the unimportant ones, while the important ones got postponed – either forever or until an imminent deadline forced me to complete them, to a mediocre standard and in a stressful rush.