I’m pretty sad that I’ll be missing the 2014 Quantified Self Europe Conference this weekend. From what I can tell of the lineup, it’s going to be a great conference that’s full of insights, sharing ideas, and learning about all the amazing ways that people are looking internally to understand themselves better. Seriously, if you’re […]
Getting the most out of RescueTime for your Quantified Self projects Read More »
You can now use your RescueTime Alerts to automate your favorite web applications, thanks to our new integration with Zapier.com. Say what? Probably easiest to show some examples. Here are a few things we’ve been doing around the RescueTime offices that illustrate some of what you can do with this integration. 1. Deliver alerts differently
RescueTime alerts are now 280 times more awesome (thanks, Zapier!) Read More »
Tweaking a routine to be more balanced / less distracted / more productive / etc is hard. Motivation only goes so far, and there are so many temptations and easy excuses to fall off track. Wouldn’t it be nice to outsource motivation? Here are three projects you can use to automate your efforts to form
When I tell people about RescueTime and what it does, one of the most common things I hear is: “Oh wow! I don’t even want to think about how much time I waste on Facebook!” When people have actually been using RescueTime for a little while, I often hear something different: “Ya know? I really
Last month, I spent some time digging around with two big personal datasets of mine – my RescueTime logs and the information about my physical activity and sleep that I’ve collected with my FitBit. After comparing over 8.5 million steps and 5,000 hours of my sleep with around 7,000 hours of my RescueTime data, I
All work and no play (and no rest) makes me super unproductive Read More »
https://twitter.com/roelveldhuizen/status/333939725159251970 When you get down to it, ideas and problem-solving are the products of people who do knowledge work of any kind. Sure, they may be wrapped up in a more tangible deliverable (shipping code, delivering designs, meeting a word count, closing a deal, etc..), but the real value being passed along is in the
The knowledge worker’s dilemma Read More »
Several of the articles we’ve been reading this week have to do with disengaging from technology for the sake of your sanity / well-being / productivity. It’s a sentiment I think we all can relate to. Life would just be simpler if we could just press the pause button for a while. Here’s a few
Weekly productivity links, the “unplugging” edition Read More »
Yesterday afternoon, I found myself staring blankly at my screen, occasionally pawing at my keyboard. I just couldn’t stay focused, no matter how hard I tried. I was nursing a migraine from the night before, but I had a bunch of things that needed to get done, and it was almost the weekend, so I
Some days, you’re just not going to get it done (and that’s ok) Read More »
In Cory Doctorow’s science fiction novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, people don’t work for money. Currency, as we know it, has become obsolete as technology has created such abundance that the old models of scarcity fall apart. Instead, paychecks are replaced with a new currency called Whuffie. Whuffie is a measure of
How social feedback loops are changing our workplace (for better and for worse) Read More »
Late last year, after seeing one too many studies and infographics about the dangers of sitting all day, I decided to push back my chair and give a standing desk a try. It was a little rocky at first, but once I got used to it, it actually feels pretty great. I initially tried to
Observations from a few months with a standing desk Read More »
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