Everyday Systems #44: The Return of the General

For every labor saving device there seem to be at least two time consuming devices to soak up all that freed time again. As T.S. Eliot put it, we are "distracted by distraction from distraction." Week...

5 Okt 20069min

Reimagine yourself so that walking becomes the most important, the most exciting thing you could possibly be doing.

27 Sep 20068min

14 minutes is one minute less than the smallest unit of schedulistically significant time. No calendar has a finer granularity than 15 minutes. No one ever has a meeting that starts at 9:05 or 9:14. Y...

20 Sep 20068min

Take a sledgehammer and wrap an old sweater around it. This is your "shovelglove." Every week day morning, set a timer for 14 minutes. Use the shovelglove to perform shoveling, butter churning, wood c...

14 Sep 20069min