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Chrome Omnibox and IFTTT Webhooks

If you use Chrome, Trello, or a huge assortment of other technology products, this an excellent method for quickly capturing a single value of information. This is accomplished by setting up a “custom search engine” through Chrome, and then using the...

My Chrome Setup (December 2017)

I spend the vast majority of my time in Chrome, and it’s one of my key pieces of software that I don’t notice much except when it’s not working. So after getting more questions and having been almost 3 years since I updated this, here’s my current Chrome setup: Pinned...

Decay Rate of Tasks

Imagine every task you had on your to do list, cost $5 per month. This would fundamentally change how you viewed them. Working on 10 tasks 10% each month would still mean you’re paying $5 per month for all of them for the whole time for 10 months until...

Dashboard’s for Meta Organization

Imagine you had a single folder with 10,000 documents, or 10,000 folders with a single file? How about 100 folders with 100 files, which is more preferable? And what if you had structure dictating some top level folders, and some lower level folders? Say categories,...

Comedic Friction

I’m sure you’ve experienced it, you’re in a meeting of some kind and trying to tackle an important topic, and someone cracks a joke. Regardless of the quality or appropriateness of the joke, a threat to the effectiveness of the meeting has been...

747 Time Management

If you were an airplane, what kind of airplane would you be? Most people live their life like a fighter jet, or even worse, a UFO. But in reality, the most highly productive people are like 747’s. Let me explain. Because time is really a subset of physics, this means...

Sleep Quality

Sleep is a critically important activity, one that we ideally spend one third of our life doing. And the quality of it determines the large majority of our life. So with that in mind, here are some of the most helpful things I’ve found for improving sleep...

Ecosystems

Defined by Dictionary.com as: “any system or network of interconnecting and interacting parts, as in a business” We all have ecosystems — aka large interconnected areas of our life — but we usually don’t break them down into their component systems. This means we lack...