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My Single Most Powerful Productivity Trick

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You could circle the world at least dozen times just by stringing together all the words that have been written about productivity. In particular, managing information overload in a social and new media era is a topic that never ceases to draw the masses. There isn’t a day that passes Read more »

Calling for the Death of Consumption Guilt

How often do you lament the fact that you can’t get through all of the stuff in your reader? I know I’ve done it. Do you feel guilty when you unsubscribe something or unfriend someone in your network? Why? Consumption of content is not a democracy. Giving of attention is Read more »

The Reaction Compulsion

One side effect of the information firehose that is the web is that we consume content at lighting speed. We digest very little of it. Akin to wolfing down a bag of donuts because it’s your diet cheat day without tasting even one of them, we’ve gone into hyperdrive with Read more »

Are We Really Just “Students”?

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When I was in corporate America, I didn’t take on a new skill – say, direct mail fundraising – and say I was a “student” of fundraising. I was learning, but I was a professional. I was a professional honing a new skill, which – if we’re doing it right Read more »