When someone dog-ears a book, they fold the corner of a page so that they can keep track of their progress. They think of it as a bookmark. I don’t. I actually use a bookmark to mark my place in a book. Dog-earing is something I use differently. I use it to mark places where I discovered takeaways. These are things I’d like to track and make note of for future reference.… Continue reading
The 2020 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide
Last year, I made a video for my YouTube channel recommending 10 gift ideas for the (aspiring) productive person in your life. But that was last year. It's 2020 and it's time for a new holiday gift guide. This year,… Continue reading
The 10 Best Books I Read In 2016
Full disclosure: The links to the books mentioned in this post are Amazon affiliate links. Should you use the link to purchase one of these books, then I'll get a little bit of money to build my own library (as… Continue reading
Review – Critical Tactics In OmniFocus
Evernote Essentials, by Brett Kelly is without doubt one of the finest software guides I have ever read. I was able to read it as an Evernote ‘newbie’ and found myself taken on a voyage of organizational discovery with a… Continue reading
6 Clear Habits from 160 Creative Heroes
Did you know Nikola Tesla drew his blinds so he could work in the dark? Or that Andy Warhol carried art to give to fans he might meet on the street? Those stories are from Mason Currey's book, Daily… Continue reading
Book Review: Get Smarter
It might not seem like it considering the number of book reviews I do, but sometimes I get in a reading rut. Days will go by when I haven’t read a book and despite my best attempts to try tactics… Continue reading
Book Review: Zero to One
There are two qualities to good advice, but good advice rarely satisfies both. It should either be so specific, it’s only relevant to a handful of people in a handful of situations ("Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky… Continue reading
Book Review: How To Invest Your Time Like Money
Elizabeth Grace Saunders has written a time management book that values your time. Time management may be the wrong category for what this is. It's more like strategic time investment - hence the title. Saunders' connection to investment isn't robust, but… Continue reading
Book Review: The Gary Vaynerchuk Trilogy
If you want to be more productive, spend more time on your core work. If you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more. If you want to have a better relationships, hear what the other person says. If you… Continue reading
Book Review: Smartcuts
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow is a book that proposes a new best way. Snow argues that when to do something matters more than how long you’ve been doing it and suggests that 'paying… Continue reading
Book Review: Everything Bad Is Good For You
A great thing about reading books is finding smart people. I first realized this reading Malcolm Gladwell a decade ago and thinking "Wow, this guy is really smart," and the same thing when I finished Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good… Continue reading
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