As I’ve written before, I’m now in vacation. And I should admit that in this first week of the vacation, my workflow is a mess. Usually I organize my workflow using GTD which I follow faithfully. In this recent week…
Talking about productivity, actually productivity is nothing but effectiveness + efficiency. In fact, this is a simple definition of productivity. Effectiveness here means doing the right things while efficiency means doing the things right.
At last I’ve completed my study this semester. I’ve done my last exam on Friday (December 1), and since Sunday (December 3) I’ve been back home in Surabaya, Indonesia. It is relieving to have the holiday after spending month after…
Some time ago I read an article titled Burned Out in Scientific American Mind June/July 2006 edition. The article explained about how people can be so obsessed with their work until they collapse by exhaustion. These people measure their self-worth…
Some days ago, I came across an interesting site about Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. The idea is, instead of spending a lot of time and (especially) money for a real MBA program, you can get roughly the same knowledge…
I have just read Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. It’s a very interesting book. In his previous book – Guns, Germs, and Steel – Diamond talks about how certain societies can be more successful…
I love audio learning, so I subscribe to some podcasts using iTunes. Usually, I will copy those podcasts to my music player so that I can listen to them while going around and working on something else. But recently I…
I’ve just come across this post by John Richardson: 50 minutes has changed my life. The concept of working in a focused manner for 50 minutes and then taking a 10 minute break has revolutionized the way I work. I…
It’s been almost two weeks since my last post in this blog. The reason why this blog hasn’t been updated for so long is not because I had nothing to write, but because I moved it to a new hosting.…
Well, I think this is one important principle to optimize our life. And for one simple reason: our close friends have great influence on us. If we gather around bad friends, who carry bad habits with them, then soon or…
