Tag Archives: structure
Giving feedback: is the "sandwich" valuable, or trite and ineffective?
Conventional wisdom has it that you should sandwich negative feedback between two pieces of positive feedback. You can read about “the hamburger method” here. Shelle Rose Charvet points out that most people already know the method. Now, when they hear … Continue reading
Organizing an 80,000 word book: my current process and thoughts
An 80,000-book is very different to write than a 900-word podcast. It’s been a challenge to wrap my head around lots of specific tips and tie them together coherently. Here are the tools and my current conception of how I’m going to organize the book. Hope it works… Continue reading
What would make this book unique?
A friend asked a very good question: how will my book be different from the other productivity books on the market? My intent is to provide tips that cover a wide range of emotionally-powerful issues that have simple, behavioral solutions … Continue reading
Organization: by problem
Between the tweets, the comments here, and the e-mail I’ve received, I’m moving ahead organizing by problem. The working idea is: A chapter discussing and framing the problem/opportunity of productivity. A chapter introducing several high-level tools and concepts. Then several … Continue reading
How should the book be organized?
How should the book be organized? My goals: Casual browsers should be able to pick up and find something useful. Keep people reading. Be intriguing enough that Ellen, Oprah, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Larry King, the Today Show, etc. are … Continue reading
