Silver Clipboard: Time Management Skills and Personal Productivity Tools

Paul Graham has written an article on the ways that he tries to disconnect himself from the modern forms of distraction:
TV is in decline now, but only because people have found even more addictive ways of wasting time…
I remember when computers were, for me at least, exclusively for work. I might occasionally dial up a [...]

Dilbert author, Scott Adams, has kicked off a very long discussion on his blog with a simple observation: there isn’t enough time to live a relaxing, health life. There’s a lot to read in the hundreds of comments from people talking about how they try to balance their life, their work and their health.
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The New Yorker ran a fascinating article on the medical profession and their use of checklists recently. Apparently, doctors don’t. Doctors who have to perform thousands of precise daily activities while under the burden of sleep deprivation and constant interruptions don’t feel the need to keep a basic checklist of activities.
Peter Pronovost has [...]

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert has on his blog the process he goes through to create the comic. Starting with his early rising time of 5AM, he walks us through a day of drawing the famous cubicle dweller.
[link to the Dilbert Workflow]
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Header photograph by Ol.v!er [H2vPk]

After linking to On My Desk earlier in the week, I thought I’d add my own workspace to the collection.

The focus of the desk is my MacBook. This sits atop a laptop stand which raises the screen to almost eye level, making it more comfortable to use. The strange-looking joystick is a 3M [...]