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Archive for the ‘Staying Sane’ Category

April 2nd, 2008

Book Review: The 4 Hour Workweek

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I’ve recently read “The 4 Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss, and I thought it might be a good idea to review it for Pimp Your Work. The title itself, “The 4 Hour Workweek” seems like a bold claim.  If you’ve already read it, please share your own opinions […]

By Celine -- 2 comments

April 1st, 2008

April Fool’s Day: Dealing with humor in the workplace

It’s April Fool’s Day once again and 90% of the employees of the world have fear in their hearts. Fear, of course, of the office clown. The other 10% are the pranksters and those who enjoy practical jokes.
Are April Fool pranks ideal for the office environment? According to statistics, they aren’t. Here […]

By Celine -- 2 comments

February 12th, 2008

Cubicle Freakout!

Stressed at work?  Release it all with this fun flash game called Cubicle Freakout.  It lets you tear apart your office, throw your computer off the window, and measures your stress levels based on your game play.  (I was told that I’m a bit tense and need some tea!)
Give it a try for your […]

By Celine -- 0 comments

November 13th, 2007

If you don’t take down meeting minutes you’ll hate yourself

I attended a pretty significant boardroom meeting today and was appalled when I realized that no one was taking down the minutes!  So I  immediately took initiative to write things down.
Why? Because minutes are good for the following things:
As a legal document.  For the IRS and other government agencies, meeting minutes can be considered as […]

By Celine -- 1 comment

November 5th, 2007

How to REALLY stick to deadlines

Dammit. I’m actually behind schedule on two client requests. Yes, yes, I should have known that was going to happen because I was moving around my Google Calendar items and postponing them a day or two late. And I did spend an entire day celebrating my first anniversary with my partner. […]

By Celine -- 2 comments

October 7th, 2007

Symptoms of productivity phobia

Spiders, rats, vampires, seeing your grandmother naked - these are all valid phobias. However, there’s also such a thing as fear of productivity. Yes, it’s entirely possible that you have it even if you’re reading a blog like this. If you want to get your own diagnosis, here is a list of […]

By Celine -- 4 comments

August 3rd, 2007

Work with your IT folks, not against them

Doing a little testing here for the tech crew at b5. We’ve got some kick-ass coders and server admins at b5 who work to keep the lights on here. They’re using PYW here as a test bed for some upcoming code changes, and asked me to test ‘er out. Which then reminded […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

June 9th, 2007

Blackberry Intervention

A little humor for your Saturday:

YouTube - David Spade BlackBerry Intervention
I know I’m not that bad, but it is tempting to let a mobile information device to take over.  Hold on, I just got an e-mail.
Technorati Tags: Blackberry, humor, Blackberry addiction
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By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

May 31st, 2007

Doodle your way to a meeting time

No I don’t mean drawing goofy things on a piece of paper. I mean using the site/service Doodle to help you plan a meeting:

So, lately, I’ve found myself informally assuming this role, driving a surprising number of gone-fallow projects just by using Doodle to propose a simple check-in. The bottom line is that this […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

April 25th, 2007

Can dictation software help focus and stop multitasking–and get more done?

Suw Charman wrote on Corante earlier this month that multitasking is as bad as procrastination.  Essentially we really all know we can’t truly multitask…
I’m not sure that this is really new news, though. Who, deep down, hasn’t pretty much known that multi-tasking is a con? We’ve known for years about the state of flow, where […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

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