Category Archives: productivity

Redesigning the Meeting Process

By Simon | Published: April 6, 2010
There is an article over at ACM Interactions magazine that suggests that design should be applied to work interactions and that discussions, meetings, and relationships should be designed in the same way that we design other processes, products, and experiences. The aim of the article is actually less about designing dialogues in the sense that [...]
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Rituals & Habits

By Simon | Published: May 19, 2009
Given that my last post talked about habits, their refinement, and occasional replacement I ran across an article that talks about the rituals and habits of effective coders. Of particular interest was this: “To me, programming is really the ‘last mile’ to getting something done. When I do the planning and specifications, I go on lots [...]
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Mixing Things Up

By Simon | Published: May 19, 2009
An interesting post over at Study Hacks that suggests that changing study patterns can help you to study better. I think that changing your work patterns can also make you better at what you do regardless of whether you are a student or not. Asking yourself  “is this the best way to achieve my goal?” [...]
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My New Mail Client: Claws Mail

By Simon | Published: May 6, 2009
I finally bit the bullet and spent some time this week auditioning new mail clients. Since moving off OS X I have been using Thunderbird but never quite got to love it. It is not offensive, in fact it is pretty good, but it seemed slow, in a personal opinion, completely subjective manner. So I [...]
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Email Spam on OS X

By simon | Published: March 7, 2009
If you are using the Mac OS X Mail application, as I still do on my laptop, you will probably have noticed the flurry of spam emails in recent months purporting to come from your own email address. I think that individual cryptographic certificates are one tool for tackling spam email in general, but a [...]
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