Tag: productivity

Bookmarks for March 18, 2026

  • When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
    This is fascinating. I am pretty candid about making steady use of AI during my work day, but I don't generally try and multi-task with it. I could, in theory, juggle multiple work streams, pinging between agents on different projects as they report in. But that intuitively seems like madness to me – if I'm constantly context switching, I'm not going to be doing the required thinking (and there's still more than enough of it) well enough. I can use AI to make the task I'm doing faster, but I don't want to try and use it to do two tasks at once.
  • Flexibility boosts productivity, not office mandates
    I am completely unsurprised by this news. Working from home full time (I go into the office maybe once or twice a quarter) is a *huge* benefit to me, and I am disposed to a) stay with my employer and b) work hard to ensure my employer succeeds so I don't have to find a job that will make me go into the office even part-time. I know there are some people for whom it's not true, and some jobs where it helps to be in person, but I honestly don't get why employers can't just trust people to figure out their own best practice and let them get on.
    Tags: productivity, research

Bookmarks for December 26, 2015

Bookmarks for March 13, 2012

Bookmarks for November 29, 2011

  • Little Printer | BERG Cloud
    There are a bunch of things that interest me about this. The physicalisation of internet-sourced data. The just-enough and just-in-time approach. The social angle. And most of all, the suggestion that this is the first of a range of tools to bring the virtual and physical closer together. I want one, and I want the developer documentation for this "bergcloud" or which they speak, because I imagine I can have fun with them.
    Tags: berg, papernet
  • Hidden habits of ineffective people by Chris Wake – Quora
    There are a couple of things in here that I should really work on, mostly 1 and 3, but they're all good advice.
    Tags: productivity, advice

Bookmarks for September 20, 2010

  • Make Games – Finishing a Game
    Applicable to just about any creative endeavour, and there are a number of things in here I could do with remembering more often.
    Tags: design, games, productivity
  • Looxcie Wearable Camcorder: Capture Unexpected Moments
    Mildly tempted by this, if they produce an iphone version. It's a bit deep geek, but that's never stopped me from doing anything before. (Not so much interested in it from a sharing-with-the-world POV, more as a personal outboard memory tool – the ability to clip the last 30 secs of my life is potentially useful in a number of contexts.)
    Tags: video, gadgets
  • How to get search engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN) referal keywords using PHP, php, Steven York.com
    Reasonably trivial task, but once I'm going to have to do at work soon, I imagine. No sense re-inventing the wheel, and this looks like some decent code snippets to build into what we'll need.
    Tags: php, seo, reporting
  • DarkPatterns.org
    A listing of intentionally bad design patterns – tricks websites use to get you to do things that they want, or that cost you money. I'm happy to say that most of our clients don't ask us to do these, and those that do are usually dissuaded by us. But still, this is a good list of tricks to learn, so you can be aware when various sites might be trying to use them on you.
    Tags: design, psychology, usability
  • A working hypothesis – Charlie's Diary
    I had been blaming the decade long rise of extremism and authoritarian clampdowns on some kind of post-millennial fallout – the calendar ticks over, and nothing changes, and all that pent up stress has to go somewhere – but the idea that a significant chunk of the population of the planet might actually be suffering from future shock hadn't occurred to me, but it's an idea worth acknowledging, I think. (And playing connect the dots with – qv. Clay Shirky's Gin and Sitcoms ideas about cognitive surplus as an exacerbating factor.)
    Tags: future, culture, religion, tolerance

Bookmarks for February 3, 2010

Bookmarks for December 10, 2009

  • All the flim that's fit to flam.
    This guys work has been doing the blog rounds today. That's because it's ace. When his store re-stocks, I will buy a thing from him.
    Tags: design, art, illustration, graphics
  • What deux yeux have teux deux teuxday?
    SLight annoying french spelling aside – if their iphone app is half as nice as their web app, and if they expose an api at some point soon, then I think Things may have been supplanted as my favourite to-do list manager. This is bloody lovely.
    Tags: design, productivity, todo
  • Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via JWZ)
    Essentially: whenever any of your friends posts an app, the developer of that app get all the data about *you* that they have access to. Facebook have completely fucked your privacy in the bin. I will be deleting my account at the end of the month, if they don't change it. (The only reason I'm not deleting it *today* is that I don't want to fuck people's social planning in the bin.) For refernce, after a bit of digging about in the privacy settings, despite the fact that I have my privacy locked down, under the new settings, here's what my friends were authorised to share about me, regardless of my profile settings: Personal info (activities, interests, etc.), Status udates,Online presence,Website,Family and relationship,Education and work,My videos,My links,My Notes,My photos,Photos and videos of me,About me,My birthday,My hometown. These setting were buried, and required extra password validaton to alter – they had gone out their way to make it hard. I'm done with them.
    Tags: security, facebook, privacy, socialnetworking