There’s a saying that says if you improve a product’s usability by 10%, you’ll end up with twice as many people who can use your product. (I thought this saying came from Joel On Software, but if so I can no longer find it.)Anyway, the undocumented...
I’m not sure how I feel about web.py using my name and a quote out of context as an endorsement. On the one hand, they at least include a link to the original context, but on the other, they make my faint praise look much more positive than it was...
Well, it seems that Being the Body is necessary for certain kinds of productivity, but it’s not sufficient in itself. In particular, it doesn’t help as much with tasks I do on the computer, unless those tasks have an auxiliary physical aspect. For...
P.G.’s thoughts on Early Retirement:“Most people have terrible time management skills. This limitation is of no consequence in public school. The school tells you where to sit and what to do and when, at least for six hours per day. This limitation...
Someone recently asked whether they could translate my articles on their blog, so I thought I’d go ahead and post my official translation policy, such as it is at this time. You may create and publish online translations of my work, provided...
A few days ago, I wrote about motivation and “chunking up” to link detail-level tasks to life-scope goals, and that I was going to try out the techniques of described by a Tony Robbins course that happened to have some similar features to the ideas...
From a more detailed article on meditation growing the brain:“The goal is to pay attention to sensory experience, rather than to your thoughts about the sensory experience,” Lazar explains. “For example, if you suddenly hear a noise, you just listen...
Recently I’ve been reading an interesting book called Animals In Translation. The author is an autistic woman who writes about the similarities between animal behavior and autistic traits. I’ve been finding it fascinating because it has been giving...
One recent study found evidence that the daily practice of meditation thickened the parts of the brain’s cerebral cortex responsible for decision making, attention and memory. Sara Lazar, a research scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital...
In “Life is Every Moment”, I commented briefly on the problem of the procrastination cycle: first you get behind, then you catch up – and in the process get behind on something else. The next day after I wrote it, however, I had an insight as to...
When I was young, my mother used to say that however things were at midnight on New Year’s Eve, that was how they would be for the rest of the year. And so, she would push us all to clean up, tidy up ourselves and the house before that magic stroke...
A couple of weeks ago, I heard about an interesting experiment. The researchers took some rats and divided them into two groups. Rats in both groups were individually placed in a tank of water that had been made opaque by adding milk, so the rats...
