When you've made real commitments that add up to 100%+ of the time/mental energy you have available, how do you deal with it? I'm in that situation at the moment and find myself debating whether to concentrate on one thing, get it done (while other things fall by the...
overload
Here are articles on overload
Email Overload – Where the CEO of Xerox and I Disagree
As you probably know, I've launched my You Are Not Your Inbox, so I'm revisiting some of my old thoughts about Email Overload. Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article ("What's So Bad about Information Overload?") on information overload...
Is The Marketplace of Ideas Turning Into a Swamp?
We take it for granted that making things easier is always a good thing. I disagree. Sometimes it is, while sometimes it isn't. Today, I've been contemplating the case where maybe it's good to make things harder. Technology has made it so that anyone can produce music...
Investors Business Daily & Downtown Women
Wow! Today's a day full of media love. An article about my book and personal productivity is featured in Investors Business Daily. A guest blog post by me is featured in the Downtown Women's Club.
Are you overwhelmed?
There are two kinds of being overwhelmed. There's the chaos that comes from having no systems, so everything is an emergency. That's relatively easy to deal with. The more pernicious type of overwhelm happens when you actually commit to more than you can possibly do....
What do you drop and what do you keep?
I'm overloaded! Yes, it happens to me, too The problem happens when I take on a new project, here's a delay in the project (e.g. I'm waiting for someone to get me a document), and during that delay, I start something new. Once the delay is over, I now have two...
Does email overload help us? You need to understand the costs and benefits.
Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article on information overload I commented on last week. The writer suggests that information overload might be good. There might be some valuable information, and besides, young people can handle it just...
Will the Tragedy of the Commons doom social networking?
Is Social Networking a Tragedy of the Commons? I'm starting to think so. They're pretty cool. They let you share yourself and your life with your friends. You find out more about them, they find out more about you, you swap cool stuff. Life is good. And therein lies...
Email just sucks, doesn’t it?
Loved Nora Ephron's take on email today. You can find it at http://SteverRobbins.com/r/m1nog.
Focus days are heaven!
Too much to do? Use a focus day to take care of the big stuff.