The article attracts some good comments on people of supporting different side of the fence, with some real world examples: There are for and against open salaries – which one makes more sense to you? Since then, the drought has ended. Now we are able to hire equal employees at more reasonable salaries. So we are in a position where we have several employees who are, in effect, overpaid, due to market conditions....
Coming back from just a few days outside of your normal routine is tough. But once you’re measuring the time you’ve been out of things in weeks, it can seem absolutely impossible to get back into gear. I think it may even be worse if you used to have a system like GTD in place. I know that I’ve looked at a month’s worth of mail and paperwork before and wondered how the heck I was going to get all of that processed into tasks I could actually get my head around, especially since now that I was back on the job the boss expected me to get some ‘real’ work done....
It is interesting to see couple of comparisons around the blogosphere with Steve Jobs and other guest speakers’ presentation style in the keynote. To highlight one, Presentation Zen has a great analysis on the presentation and a summary on bloggers’ comments. To summarize his summary, not many people like Stan Sigman’s (CEO of Cingular) speech. In particular, Sigman uses 3×5″ index cards, and awkwardly reading and presenting from it. Did Jobs use any notes?...
In order to determine if you are in a healthy relationship, it is important to gauge that by today’s standards, not by the metrics of old relationship benchmarks. Here are 5 ways to know if you are in a healthy intimate relationship, and what to do if you’re not. 1. You fight well The old way to measure a healthy relationship is that you don’t fight. A couple who got along and were five times more affectionate than they were combative were seen as having something healthy....
But both processes are important, the process of growing, advancing, experiment, complicating your system, and the process of cutting it back, simplifying it, minimalizing it. Experimentation and exploration is when you discover which systems, hacks, tips and tricks work for you. Then, the process of elimination retains what did work and clears out the clutter you picked up along the way. One way we can continue to experiment with this ‘productivity’ thing while minimizing the amount of decluttering that needs to occur later on....
From Jessie, we move to an article on Disambiguity called The Six Species of Information Architect. This is a well-considered piece discussing the various roles and types of designers out there, from graphic and visual types, to producer/project manager types, to the reformed developer techie types, to a few more. Funny, because when I go back to count, there are seven types listed. Six Design Lessons from the Apple Store – [Adaptive Path] Six Species of Information Architect – [Disambiguity via xBlog]
What is your sleeping position, and do you think the result reflect to your personality? Sleep position gives personality clue – [BBC News]
Here are ten small things wonderful people do to build deeper relationships: 1. They (Genuinely) Care They care for what you care about as if it’s their own. There is a difference between genuinely caring and “pretending to care” and they clearly are in the former camp. When they converse with you, they tend to drop their agenda and focus on yours. 2. They Remember I am not talking about birthdays and anniversaries....
It’s 9:50 AM. Work starts in 10 minutes; I am punctual, awake, and ready for the day. Awesome. Blink. 1:00 PM. Wait, what?! I shut my eyes tightly and opened them again. There is nothing wrong with the watch. But I realized that in the three hours that just passed, I barely finished one article – which was supposed to be done in an hour. Sounds familiar? As you rush to finish what was supposed to be completed in the morning after lunch, you realize you can either: Stuck between a rock and a hard place – talk about making a difficult decision!...
After the installation, couple of new areas added to my Gmail interface. Here are couple of screenshots of the interface: Added a quick action bar to add contexts and statuses. A new GTD section will be added in label area. There will be a new action area for each “task”. Initially, I need to figure out a bit on how to use it. To get started, I have to add couple of special labels for contexts and statuses, and also add two extra filters to label the special “emails” correctly....
All you need to do is drag those link into your favorites or bookmark menu. Go to his site and get those. Bookmarklets Every Blogger Should Have – [Micro Persuasion]
Sometimes the smallest things take the most room in your heart.
Often, people thought I was anti-social or lacking presentation skills. Some of my friends even had the first impression that I hated them when we first met. Just because I didn’t talk (and with my RBF), they assumed I didn’t want to befriend them. Or there were times in conversations, I didn’t engage in them and people thought I was silently judging all of them, but in fact, I was thinking and absorbing what everyone had to say....
People let their time go by them, waiting for the perfect moment. The truth is that it will never come unless you create it on your own. Handy or not, new to DIY or a real pro, you should stop waiting. Roll up your sleeves and take things into your own two hands. The projects I have listed below mostly require your time and effort – but in the end, you’ll know that you crafted it all by yourself and you will enjoy every magical inch of your victory....
I moonlight as a stage manager for local theatre productions in my town, and most recently I oversaw the production of the “47th Annual Madfest”, a juggling variety show. Acts come in from all over the world to the festival, and in the space of 5 hours in an afternoon it is my job to turn them into an evening’s worth of entertainment for the sold-out 1300 seat theatre. This presents unusual challenges particular to this event: there is no real rehearsal, and often acts are being added or cut from the lineup right up until showtime....
If you can change your mindset and start looking at goals as solutions, science has shown that you can develop more creative ideas. In the 1980s, business professors at Stanford University started teaching a relatively new business concept called Design Thinking. Design Thinking in business is intended to help businesses research and develop new products for customers based on their needs. Design Thinking is based on five steps. They are:...
With concerted effort, people saved a stranded orca The five-to-six ton orca was caught on a rocky shoreline in low tide. The orca called out for help and a passerby heard it, discovered the stranded animal, and phoned volunteer rescue groups who help in these types of situations. Members of The Guardians from Hartley Bay and Whale Point spent the day keeping the orca wet and cool. It was covered in thin sheets to shield its delicate skin from the sun and was regularly bathed with water from a hose attached to a tank until the tide returned more than eight hours later....
Unbeknownst to me, she was definitely on to something. What my teacher understood and was able to tap into was the therapeutic effects of creating art. Today, Art therapy is actually a thing. Research shows that there are legitimate benefits of art therapy even if you are absolutely horrible at all things creative and crafty. In a clinical setting, art therapist use this medium to help people resolve conflicts, improve interpersonal skills, manage problematic behaviors, reduce negative stress, and achieve personal insight....
Sarcasm gets a bad rap and not without just cause. Too much sarcasm can lead to contempt, hurt and the inability to get anyone to take you seriously. Yet, sarcasm is not all bad. In fact, there is some evidence that from greater sarcasm comes greater creativity. According to recent research, people who use sarcasm tend to be more creative. Those who have sarcasm directed at them are also more creative by extension....
Adult acne can be linked to issues with hormonal imbalance. In this case, the acne is actually a symptom of a much bigger problem. However, once you identify that a hormone imbalance exists, treating it, and getting rid of the acne becomes easier. How does hormones lead to acne? Hormones influence acne in women through the activation of the oil gland in the skin. These oils are produced to wash out dead skin cells and remove excess bacteria from the pores....
