- The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) | NCZOnline
I would absolutely kill to be certain that from 1:30 to 5:30pm I would not be interrupted by anyone, and could just get on with work. If I could implement just one recommendation from this (very resonant) article at my company, this would be it. Hack days, meeting free days, these would be lovely, but the really big one would be interruption free time.
Tag: happiness
Bookmarks for October 15, 2009
- Be lucky – it's an easy skill to learn – Telegraph
I shall work on this. I'm pretty relaxed, but I'm not as observant as I could perhaps be. Still, it's nice to know that "Be Lucky!" can be taken as an instruction, rather than just generic good wishes…
Bookmarks for September 30, 2009
- nef 'five-a-day' to well-being in major new government report
None of these are rocket science, when when considering them as a checklist, I suspect generally manage about 3-4 of these on any given day – one or two of them almost always fall by the wayside. Must try and find ways to structure my day so I hit all 5 more often.
Bookmarks for September 9, 2009
- Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness | Video on TED.com
I have heard of this guy before, but this is a truly amazing talk.
- TEDTalks as of 09.02.09
A spreadsheet listing all the various TED talks to date, and providing a brief summary of each. Really nice way of finding talks by smart people that you may have missed.