I want to describe calm productivity. And I want to contrast the results of attention management to the results of efforts to do time management. I’m...Continue reading
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If you want to be more effective in your work and in your life, and you’d like to have more confidence that you’re meeting your intentions, this is where it begins.
Welcome to Do Busy Right, helping you organize your information and manage your attention so that they work for you, not against you.
We educate you and encourage you by discussing ways to be more effective, not more exhausted.
Let’s Do Busy Right.
Over-allocated Attention and the Associated Stress – DBR 077
Our attention is over-allocated by a nexus of events. This episode is what to do about that. I’m gonna acknowledge something that I’m not a big...Continue reading
Yes! You CAN Be Happy At Work – DBR 076
The happiness at work episode. Yay. I’m happy to be at work. Last time we talked about pessimism versus optimism. A closely related subject is happiness...Continue reading
Pessimism Cloaked as Realism Considered Harmful – DBR 075
This one’s about optimism and pessimism, and what that has to do with productivity. I and the whole thing is a productivity concern for me....Continue reading
DBR 074: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going – History of Knowledge Work Productivity
I want to talk about the history of knowledge work productivity. And it's going to involve a lot of different names. It's going to involve...Continue reading
DBR 073: Fable: Productivity Rain Dances – Watch Out
I started out talking about the lies of productivity, but I’m going to change to fables because it’s just things we collectively believe without much...Continue reading
DBR 072: The Modern Productivity Paradox, What Should Knowledge Workers Do?
DBR 072: The Modern Productivity Paradox, What Should Knowledge Workers Do?
What Is the Impact of the “Attention Crisis” – DBR 071
There’s an article in The New Yorker “What If The Attention Crisis Is All A Distraction” by Daniel Immerwahr. I think the attention problem (if...Continue reading
The Wrong Mindset May Be Causing Bad Results – DBR 070
It’s time to update on philosophy of work; I’ve got some more info for you. A lot of this is going to be review, but...Continue reading
Why you need commonplace books and how to create them – DBR 069
One of the primary uses of information is to help us learn. When we are explicitly learning, we work to collect information. It works the...Continue reading