Eiffel Over

Tag: getting things done

  • More lanes = more cars. More apps = more things to do?

    More lanes = more cars. More apps = more things to do?

    Deleting apps and leaving your phone at home could be analogous to dismantling urban highways.

    I read earlier this week about the research that established a direct link between building more roads and the level of traffic in a system. The researches established a directly proportional link. Increase road capacity by 10% and traffic increases by 10%. The causal link is that when you increase road capacity, you make it easier for more people to make more journeys. And so more people drive until the new road reaches capacity. At which point the traffic stops growing until new roads are built.

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  • Apply the OOOOOO

    In my second post on building creative surplus – the time and energy we need to invest in creative thinking – I describe the OOOOOO, an approach for overcoming organisational overwhelm and takes away our creative time,

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  • Choose the productivity tool for the job you want not the one you have

    Choose the productivity tool for the job you want not the one you have

    The tools you use define your work. They lock in choices about what you turn your attention to, what you can do and what you can’t. Before you choose a new productivity tool, define what they work is that you do and don’t want to do, then find the tool for the job.

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