A journalist/blogger, Topher, is undergoing sever Tech withdrawal by not using his smartphone for (gasp) an entire week.
Follow jos journey back to the land of the techno-dinosaurs by reading his first account:
Tech-Torture with Topher: Bye-Bye Smartphone, and follow his adventures on
Twitter.
(I’ll break the suspense by revealing that he’ll still be checking email the […]

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I wrote another article for the Stepcase LifeHack website with the above title.
I also called it: Putting the “P” in PDA Productivity, and it’s based on my
encounter with a guy using the urinal at Laguardia while using his Blackberry.

 
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So far in this series, I have addressed the idea that Outlook could be improved by re-building it around the fundamental practices of time management.  The fundamental, Emptying, is the most important one for many users, and it also could be improved in Outlook if it were redesigned.
In this particular fundamental, a user goes through […]

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In my prior post I brought up the notion that Outlook was designed to solve user’s problems with email, rather than the bigger problem they have with time demands.
I also mentioned that the company that understands this shift would be able to produce radically different software.  Not just different, but better.  It would help users […]

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A program that is built for time management purposes would assist a user in executing the fundamentals, but also allow him/her the freedom to use its features to support their particular time management system.
Ideally, a user should be presented with as clean an interface as possible, with unnecessary features hidden away from view, so that […]

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As I mentioned in prior posts, it’s quite important for a user of the 2Time approach to appreciate the goal of getting into the Flow state as often as possible.
This requires a minimum of interruptions, and luckily for us, there are some companies that are thinking about ways to manage email so that only the […]

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I often complain that there is too-little research into time management techniques, and that academics have failed to give humankind a workable set of principles, definitions and rules of thumb to work with in this area.The result is software that simply misses the mark.A recent article in BusinessWeek entitled 
High-Tech Time Management Tools seems to promise something […]

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In prior posts on the blog, I have made the point that Microsoft Outlook’s design is one that is not meant for time management purposes, but instead appears to have been made by engineers who simply added feature after feature after feature.
Recently, a reader of the blog posted the following request in a comment in […]

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I wrote a post as a guest-writer the Stepcase LifeHack website entitled “
Blackberry Slavery” that was published today.In the article, I describe how PDA’s armed with real-time email are allowing companies to take advantage of employees’ fears of losing their jobs.All this, while HR department move much too move slowly to  protect employee down-time, and […]

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I just read an interesting article from the New York Times exploring the reasons why free-throw shooting in basketball has not improved over the years.
Apparently,
the success-rate of free-throws in the NBA and college basketball has remained unchanged at approximately 69% since the mid 1960’s.  The authors of the piece make the case that not […]

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