March, 2012

Productivity Bits

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How To Email: Seth Godin’s Email Checklist

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Email has been around for quite some time now. Email holds a very important role in our daily interaction with our fellow human beings. For many of us, email is a simplistic form of communication – one that wouldn’t take too much of our brain power to do. But if you are like some people, email is not as intuitive as it’s supposed to be.

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Expand Your Wi-Fi Signal At Home And Make Your Internet Faster

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S ometimes being productive means having the right tools at the right time. Sometimes having the right tools means having to shell out extra dollars just to get them. I wanted to do stuff over the internet when I am at home during the weekend. Being productive for me also means I have time to do things that I like to do on the side. I have a laptop that I use for everything I do online.

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How Far Are You Willing To Go To Get Your Brain Work Better

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$99 can get you the chance of increasing your “learning rates.” But are you willing to spend that if it involves sending your brain “increased amount of electrical current”? The DIY Kit, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), as described in a BGR report , is “a safe and effective means of increasing cognitive performance.” The way I understand it is it stimulates some part of your brain which then somehow increases neuronal excitability.

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The Future Of Education Is Online

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How to teach kids more effectively? The school environment is the most important portion of that. There is no doubt about it. There is an urgency that school children need to learn more math and science. That is specially true here in the US. What if the parents can utilize a cool tool to augment their kids’ learning? What if the hardest part of this tool is convincing kids to sit down and watch videos (I guess, that is not hard at all)?

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Are You Meeting Expectations?

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If your company is conducting regular performance reviews, chances are you’ve already had your annual review. It’s already past March and you’re reading this from your work computer. You weren’t fired. Congratulations! If you’re like most knowledge workers, the minimum threshold you have to have to maintain your job status is meeting your company’s expectations.

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How Much Is An Idea Worth

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E piphany. Eureka. Idea. How much is an idea worth? It is virtually worth nothing. Really. The great products we see today are brought forth by some kind of thinking process. We call them concepts. Or imagination. Dream. Before we see products, a thought process must take place. But how important is an idea? If we are to put a tag price to a very important idea, how valuable is that idea in dollar terms?

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Using No System To Organize Tasks And Ideas

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H aving the phrase “No System” and “Organize” both on the title of this post almost sounds a bit contradictory. But there are some benefits to that contradiction. I am a big fan of the GTD bandwagon. Make no mistake about it. I think that GTD will help you to be productive in many ways. You need a system to get things done. Plain and simple.

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