Came across this BuzzFeed News article by Katie Notopoulos and it really resonated with me. The gist is to essentially treat email more like text messages. Respond quickly and succinctly whenever possible. The way she described her previous approach to email really resonated with me: What trips me up most…
Nilay Patel is the editor in chief at The Verge and recently faced a predicament that many tech-savvy children of less tech-savvy parents face: Getting them a new computer. In many ways, now is the best time in history to buy a new computer. Never before have such powerful machines…
I realize the irony of someone who let several months go by without updating his blog posting about time management. Let me defend myself by saying that, had I implemented this approach, I'm confident my posts would have been much more regular. “It’s been said there are two paradigms…
As we've discussed before, your mind can only handle so great of a cognitive load—people can only hold so many items in their working memory before they start to fall out. Active listening—that is, attending to the speaker and jotting down the things that catch your attention—lets…