How supporting Indie and small publishers transforms the world

Being a publisher on a small scale, I know how hard it is to get attention on your work. Often we invest way more time in our work and words, than our audience gets to consume it. Starting small, means a lot of wasted efforts. By knowing this, I’ve made a commitment that I will [...]

How does it look when you write 5000+ words in one day…

The one and only measure of my productivity for the day is how much I wrote. And today I’ve breached that record. I’ve written around 5000 words today, and keep pushing that limit. Out of those 5000, 2k have been published and 1k schedule. I am exhausted pretty much. I’ve been out of the house [...]

Weekly Review – Impact of @1Password, Typography and @BrainCutlery Manifesto

In personal terms, some big things happened last week, I’ve bought my tickets for USA, and now it’s a flight waiting game. As I make my move, I believe it will have a dramatic impact on my work, my style and even topics that I write here. Health wise I felt dramatically better, so I’ve [...]

The RSS replacement

It’s been a while since the Google announced the murder of Reader. And for the past two months I was waiting for a replacement that would be worthy of my attention. But than I’ve reconsidered majorly how I started using RSS lately, and the same way as Podcasts, they were mostly read on iPhone. Downsizing, [...]

Slightly different publishing approach

Lately I’ve been reading a lot of blogs like Daring Fireball and Brooks Review, and often I’ve found myself having a desire to write short articles in bursts and just hit publish. For a long while, this simply was not possible on iOS. Also I’ve found Mars Edit bookmarklet quite useful in sharing thoughts and [...]

Impact of @1password on my @Evernote and @Lastpass usage

Keeping your information secure is important factor in our daily lives. For a long while I’ve kept a lot of my important private information hidden inside of Evernote. And never have I been confident in it, I knew it was not a safe solution, but I took the risk. As the time goes by, and [...]

Further down the “Fallacy of Systems thinking” Discussion

Times and times again, I’ve seen GTD enthusiast try to convince me that GTD is for “everyone” and that it is for normal people. My dear friend Brian Cutlery is on it again. He replied to my Systems thinking article and this time around I am replying to his response to it, that can be [...]

Weekly Review – Disconnecting from the internet and Biohacking

I was a bit under the weather the whole week, but I enjoyed a lot of quality content, especially in the book section. So here goes: What I wrote My usual two articles a week were quite related. My first was a semi-rant on “systems thinking”, where I explained why newbies shouldn’t implement systems as [...]

The very first step to becoming Alpha Efficient

Perhaps you started with tips and tricks on Lifehacker, or you’ve read a book or two about organizing yourself and improving your productivity. Or you are brand new to this. But you still don’t have a clear idea where to start your productivity journey. I was thinking hard about where to send of a person [...]

Fallacy of systems thinking and reversing the productivity game

The problem with productivity enthusiasts these days, is that they will pay more attention to the hacks and tricks, than doing the actual work. We’ve created this “work masturbation” environment, where doing it better is more important than doing it at all. The problem lies with the saturation of the marketers in the field. They [...]