Archives for the 'Personal Productivity / GTD' Category
How to get the most out of spreeder.com [How to be an Original]
Spreeder.com is a very cool tool for speed reading text online. In this
article I’ll be discussing all the neat little features that are in the
tool, that make it rock!
The basicsWhen you first start spreeder, you get a basic input screen for
text.
There’s no limit to the number of words you can paste in there. I
tried up [...]
Why Backlogs Suck Big Time! [How to be an Original]
Backlogs, everybody knows them, everybody has them, everybody hates them. So why don’t we get rid of them? That’s because working on a backlog sucks too! Let’s face it, if you liked the work on the backlog in the first place, it probably wouldn’t be a backlog right? Right!
There are five kinds of backlogs that [...]
Does your mind need to shut up while speed reading? [How to be an Original]
One of the subjects that returns in speed reading literature and theories is subvocalizing. Subvocalization is the process in which you “say” the words you read in your mind, you’re in a sense reading to yourself “out loud” silently.
I recently discovered that subvocalizing is a matter of controversy in speed reading country. The general opinion [...]
Update on speedreading and some tools online [How to be an Original]
I have been learning speed reading techniques in the past week. The good news, my speed is up by 200% (to around 350 wpm). The bad news, my comprehension is down by 50% (from 94% to 52%). Not quite what I expected, as the effect evens out to almost zero. I don’t want my comprehension [...]
11 (not so imaginary) ways to burn your time [How to be an Original]
When it comes down to being more productive, we often try to find hacks to be even more efficient in doing tasks we have already classified as relevant. However there are a lot of activities that we undertake that are part of quadrant IV (Covey’s habit 3), that we may or may not be aware [...]
Improving speed reading skills [How to be an Original]
I read a lot as I like learning a lot. A great deal of the resources for learning are text-based (written) resources, much like this blog is a text-based resource as well. And as I have been caught by the productivity virus for a while now, and feel this is an area that needs improving: [...]
Battle your inbox: 11 habits to an empty inbox [How to be an Original]
The inbox GRRR! I used to hate my inbox. For me, it was the culmination of not being in control of my work. I had read and unread messages, marked and unmarked, high priority and higher priority, direct, cc’s and bcc’s and usually several scrollpages full of them! The harder I tried to manage the [...]
Tying it together: the why, what and how questions [How to be an Original]
I’ve been thinking about the correlation of the topics I’ve been blogging about. They reflect what I’m thinking about, what I’m reading about, what I’m working on, what I want to achieve and so on. They cover a wide variety of topics, not so much on a horizontal scale, but more so on a vertical [...]