by Gabriel Stein | Jan 30, 2018 | Personal, Personal Development, Productivity
Multitasking – a fancy word for trying to cook 5 courses at the same time; something is going to get burned. Everyone’s brain is proven to have a deceleration and acceleration time when switching between tasks. This is known as “switching”. The...
by Gabriel Stein | Nov 30, 2017 | Personal, Productivity, Software
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...
by Gabriel Stein | Apr 21, 2017 | Personal, Productivity
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...
by Gabriel Stein | Apr 12, 2017 | Productivity, Software
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,...
by Gabriel Stein | Apr 5, 2017 | Personal Development, Productivity
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...
by Gabriel Stein | Mar 31, 2017 | Personal Development, Productivity
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...
