I’ve been writing a daily diary for about sixth months now, and it’s been an interesting experiment. For want of a better location for it I published it on my blog, but made it slightly less visible than a typical blog post, the entries appeared in searches and if you...
Note: This post is a new version of an older post, adding new hints and tips I know my memory is failing me, it’s never been great, but ten years ago after years of medicinal steroid use (to help with my auto-immune condition) its decline really started to accelerate. By...
This post was first published on my business blog, which I’m closing down now that I’ve retired, so I’m archiving some of the better posts to this blog Microsoft has recently started to talk about productivity as part of it’s new mission, they used to talk about people, but that...
This is the Eighth in my series of posts looking back on my first 10 blog posts. This is the first blog post I’ve ever written that gets into a topic that’s dominated my working life – how to help people get more done and enjoy doing it. Over the...
I’ve been thinking about my productivity a lot over the last few months, it’s struck me that for all the new innovations that have been delivered it hasn’t improved that that much. As I look back over the last 20 years the high points are not the obvious ones, it’s...
I’m exposed to a lot of start-ups, flooded with VC money and trying to make their mark on the world, or get bought. Evernote rises above them all, it’s been the foundation of my personal knowledge management system for many years, but more than that it’s been an inspiration to...
I’ve never been particularly impressed by the marketing that most companies do in the area that I work. It’s generally marketing the obvious, or desperately trying to find an interesting case study that we can polish up. Personally I’d rather dispense with the traditional marketing budget and let our expertise...
I was recently sent a list of about a hundred documents that were being produced as part of readying a new product for sale. The ‘exam’ question was were we missing anything? My first and lasting impression was not what was missing but the lack of focus that might result...
This post is the second in series on how I’ve automated augmenting my memory, the first post covered how I create a diary which is my most important and frequently referenced memory aid. This post covers how I automate the creation of my personal knowledge management archive. This archive has...
I spend a considerable time consuming information, in fact I probably spend more time reading, listening and watching work related content than I do any other activity in my day. Consuming for it’s own sake though isn’t very satisfying, I need a purpose in life and that purpose is enabled,...