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- August 9, 2014
2014 Resolutions Review 06: Unusually Productive!
August 9, 2014Read moreI’m reviewing my year’s goals once again, as I do every month as part of Groundhog Day Resolutions. This month has been a DOOZY, packed with new processes and data-driven insights, which has culminated in a feeling of…balance? It’s probably too good to be true, but something seems to be working. (more…)
- August 8, 2014
Migration Complete: New Website
August 8, 2014Read more
At long last, the new website is finally up!
The new website template, which is based on one I bought off one of those WordPress theme sites, is modern, responsive and has a cool drag-and-drop content interface that actually doesn’t suck, so I’m looking forward to being able to build some more interesting HTML-based resources.
This is the major delivery, too, for both Themed Work Week #4 and Groundhog Day Resolution Review #6.
There’s a whole boatload of post-relaunch things I have to look at, but at least the bulk of the content has been ported and moved to a new WordPress installation. I dropped the “Network WordPress” (aka Multisite) support, because it’s generally been more trouble than it’s worth for what I’m doing. All the process journals have been converted to categories of a single blog. This has killed a number of the links in these sub-blogs, but they were not extensively linked before. There’s little typography problems all over the place, and it looks like the WordPress exporter didn’t play nice with some of the content, but I’ll fix it as I come across it. I’m exhausted.
Hopefully no major disasters will uncover themselves in the next 24 hours. Fingers crossed!
- August 4, 2014
Themed Work Weeks: The 21-Day Summary
August 4, 2014Read moreIt’s been 10 days since I last posted an update for the Themed Work Week experiment, which tests the hypothesis that I can be more “sustainably productive” by focusing on a single main project per week instead of “three tasks from three projects” every day.
After 21 days, I’ve gone through three different project theme weeks, and I can report that the experience has been very positive so far, in ways both expected and surprising. (more…)
- July 23, 2014
Eureka! Impulsivity and Procrastination
July 23, 2014Read moreI’m in the middle of my second experimental Themed Work Week, and I think I’ve discovered what I needed to know. It really comes down to addressing the difficulty in starting and its broader context. An article from The New Yorker kicks off the thread of reasoning. (more…)
- July 22, 2014
Setting the Tone for Themed Week #2
July 22, 2014Read more[Note: This was originally intended to post on Monday, but I goofed up the publishing date]
This is the second of two
morningposts about setting the tone for Themed Work Week #2. The idea behind a “themed work week” is to focus on just one major project (which has many moving parts) at a time, rather than try to juggle the projects on a day-by-day basis. My hypothesis is that I’ll find it easier to handle the load while being more productive.
