Yesterday, I wrote about the two-minute rule from David Allen. Today, I reflect on another tool I’ve found immeasurably helpful in the past week. I think of these as “action cues”—but first encountered them as “Gibsonian affordances” in the Daniel Levitin book The Organized Mind. (I would link to the Wikipedia page, but it’s a … Continue reading On creating action cues
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Modern life and the scope creep of shadow work
Each of us is doing the work of others and not getting paid for it. [Shadow work] is responsible for taking away a great deal of the leisure time we thought we would all have in the twenty-first century. Daniel Levitin Since I learned about shadow work, I have started seeing it everywhere. The above … Continue reading Modern life and the scope creep of shadow work
What if you choose not to look at our inboxes every five minutes?
Here are two quotes that have profoundly affected the way I think about my email: Your inbox is a to-do list written by someone else.Tom Chatwin One of [email's] overlooked disadvantages [is that] it is used for everything. Daniel Levitin I'm sure that my colleagues are a bit tired of hearing that first quote, which … Continue reading What if you choose not to look at our inboxes every five minutes?
Taylor Coe 