The Pareto principle is a very well-known principle for productivity. In essence, it says that 20% of the causes gives 80% of the results. The implication then is to focus your effort on that 20% causes that gives 80% of…
Have you ever had this kind of experience? You got up in the morning willing to have a productive day. You turned on the computer, and before you knew it, you already spent one hour browsing the Internet without even…
The art of arbitrage – I believe – is the key to living smart. It allows you to get much more given the same amount of effort. What you do there is connecting to different worlds and then leveraging the…
What does it mean to live smart? In my opinion, living smart means knowing how to leverage your situations in the best possible way to your maximum advantage. Regarding this, there is one word I often hear recently: arbitrage. I…
We can improve our personal productivity by applying the the Pareto principle or Parkinson’s law. But why not going further by applying the Long Tail concept? The Long Tail is a term coined by Chris Anderson to describe how entities…
There is an article entitled Food Boom in the May 2007 issue of Scientific American which I found interesting. It talks about the tremendous increase in U.S. agricultural productivity in recent decades. “Over the period 1948 to 2004, total farm…
To succeed, you need luck. Of course, you need to work hard, but luck also plays an important role. How many people have worked hard but never achieve anything significant? Reading the book Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb puts…
Success is everybody’s dream. But what is the key to success? How can you be successful? In my post about defining successful people, I wrote that we should measure success based on how much we give rather than how much…
I’m in the midst of a bandwidth crisis these days. As I wrote before, my current Internet connection has a quota of 1,000 MB per month. Up till now I’ve used 880 MB with still one week to go. Needless to say, such situation puts me…
Following the development in personal productivity field could be cumbersome. There are simply too many good resources out there than what I could possibly follow through my feed reader. So what can I do? One solution I can think of is…
