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The holy grail of productivity usually involves getting to the bottom of things; your inbox should be empty. All your tasks completed. No more paperwork to file. All red badge alerts on your mobile gone. From Inbox Zero to most task management applications, the ultimate goal is to get to empty and done: But who […]
In the Bimonthly Productivity Top 5, I look back the the most important productivity hacks I’ve implemented in the past two months. This one covers May and June of 2015. 1. Travel triad: Uber + Airbnb + Foursquare This might seem like an odd combination, especially in a productivity top 5. Let me explain. In […]
It’s that time of the year again: summer has officially started, so hopefully you’re one of the lucky ones who gets to enjoy a few weeks of vacation! But… I can already feel your dread for that inbox upon return. Hundreds if not thousands of emails to sift through. Despair not. With a little preparation, […]
When Michael Phelps woke up at 6:30 am on August 13th of 2008, he wasn’t in his own home. In fact, he was far from it, as he was rising to a new day in the Olympic Village in Beijing. Yet everything he did from the moment his alarm clock went off, followed an exact […]
In August of 2014, as I was walking from my home in Beijing to the gym, I can clearly remember a thought firing off in my head. My creative thinking was in overdrive and several dots connected to form the basis for a software tool called SANE. It could have stopped right there; an idea in my head, forgotten […]
