Deliberate practice: a practical guide to practicing knowledge work How do you do deliberate practice, in practice? And for knowledge work? This post looks at the tangential skills required are, and how to apply them.
Deliberate practice: applying the abstract theory to careers On our recent trip to Morocco my Kindle tragically broke. It was a Kindle Keyboard 3G, and I’d had it since 2011. It featured a full sized keyboard and a 3G connection anywhere in the world, free! Unsurprisingly those features rarely came in useful, but it served me well. Sadly when I put the Kindle down […]
Getting things done in the long run: think harder and further ahead I found Sam Altman’s post How To Be Successful very interesting. Sam is President of Y Combinator, a startup incubator which has funded the likes of Dropbox and Airbnb, and thus spends his time talking to extremely driven – and in some cases – extremely successful people. This gives him a unique situation from which to […]
Deep work in practice for remote teams Nearly two years ago I wrote how I was doing Deep Work in practice as a remote worker. The post discussed the “Deep Work” idea that you should focus hard, on hard things, for a long time in order to yield the best results. The idea comes from Cal Newport, a Computer Science Professor, and […]
Asking the right questions for accelerated productivity, clarity and growth I’ve been self-employed full time for the last three months now (minus a bit of time in Japan and I’m starting to appreciate the importance of asking the right questions in life and in business – but mainly in business. “Asking the right questions” is a key theme in any business book. It’s a genre one […]
Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction “One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is the task of relearning how to concentrate. The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost impossible.” – Alain de Botton
Five minute journal: how could today have been even better? Reviewing fifty days of using the five minute journal for better wellbeing and productivity. Does it work? Is it nonsense?
Successfully managing freelance work through college (how to balance study, work and social) Freelance work is one of the best jobs for college students. You get to pick your own schedule and work from home. You can pick up part time work and fit around your schedule. I spent my first year of college (or University, as I called it), thinking it wasn’t really possible to manage freelance […]
