Interesting read: What Procrastination Looks Like

iDoneThis

February 25th, 2011

idonethis.com

Every day we’ll email you to ask, “What’d you get done today?”

Inch by inch, anything’s a cinch.

We’ll keep a calendar for you of what you got done. Look to your streak from yesterday to motivate you today.

The Colour Clock

February 25th, 2011

Represents time as a hexadecimal colour value. From our friends across the pond.

thecolourclock.co.uk

And here’s a whole discussion about how it could have been built in HTML5.

Office Clock

February 8th, 2011

Crazy cool clock to bring to meetings to show everybody how much time and money they are wasting (potentially) by being in that meeting.

I’d wager that meetings ARE necessary to get business done. Not all of them are critical. In my honest opinion, I feel like most of the ones I partake in are needed, and worth the time.

Mapping out your day

January 17th, 2011

Benjamin Franklin gives us this:

From this interesting post about time lapse videos.

At the end of every day

January 11th, 2011

Ask yourself three sets of questions:

  1. How did the day go? What success did I experience? What challenges did I endure?
  2. What did I learn today? About myself? About others? What do I plan to do — differently or the same — tomorrow?
  3. Who did I interact with? Anyone I need to update? Thank? Ask a question? Share feedback?

Source: The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of Your Day over at Harvard Business Review.

Four Creative Calendars

January 4th, 2011

Neat post: Four creative calendars… check it out.

Sweet visual 2011 calendar (via Kent):

Domino Clock

December 20th, 2010

The Domino Clock – I’d love to have one of these in the office.

Via Design.org

Puzzle Calendar

December 9th, 2010

This puzzle calendar from ThinkGeek is pretty cool!

Ran across this sweet info graphic from Cam Hoff over at Design.org Blog.

By the way, design.org is a great site for design resources.

A good blog post about scheduling time for creativity.

Workspaces

November 16th, 2010

Here’s a sweet blog post with photos from peoples work places. Then check out this photo of Steve Jobs’ home office.

Consequences

October 22nd, 2010

I love this little Someecard!

someecards.com - There are consequences to not doing your timesheets

Nooka Watches

October 20th, 2010

Just had lunch with Sunny Thaper and noticed he had a cool looking watch. Turns out it’s a Nooka watch. He has the one pictured below (only in white). They do some neat stuff with visualizations of time… as you can see in this picture. Each row represents 30 minutes of the day.

Knowing your customers budget

October 5th, 2010

An interesting blog post (and discussion) over at The Design Cubicle about finding out your customers budget.

Value of an Hour (Global Stats)

September 29th, 2010

Sweet infographic from Good Magazine showing the value of an hour worldwide.

95% effort and 5% talent

September 27th, 2010

Ultimately, my whole approach to what I do is 95% effort and 5% talent. I really see it as a sport. You probably won’t become a tennis player if you don’t stand on the court for six hours a day and whack balls over the net. And if you do that, you have to be incredibly untalented for it not to work. But I think it’s tempting to think as a creative professional, you sit there and you’re creative. So much of it is just doing it everyday for hours.

– Christoph Niemann: Short Deadlines Make You Think Straight

Pirates Tracking Time

September 20th, 2010

A humorous look at pirates tracking their time from Savage Chickens.

Link: How To Meet Deadlines

July 28th, 2010

Smashing Magazine has published an article titled Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines. It’s rather lengthy, but worth a read.