Bewildering and Discombobulating
This is the first of a series of pieces based on Mary Meeker’s recent deck about AI. The first is an overview of the technology and its current impact.
Productivity
Dealing with email embarrassment
I assumed that by now we’d be using something better than email. (Remember Google Wave? No, I don’t either.) But we aren’t. So it’s probably time for me to make a confession: I’m still struggling to find the perfect email app. After a recent spate of embarrassing moments when important emails just passed me by, I … Read more
How to Add Half a Year to Your Life
By Jeremy Wagstaff At the risk of boring you all to death this week I’d like to talk about folders. Yes, I know it’s not the most exciting subject in the world, but I’ve seen too many people make a mess of this that I reckon reading this article should save you on average about … Read more
Computers: Right Back Where We Started
A lot of my time is spent writing for and talking to people for whom the computer remains a scary beast that is best kept at arm’s length, or, better, in a closet. I feel for these people because I’m not naturally a techie myself. I failed science and math in school and almost certainly … Read more
Inside the Pocket of a Productivity Porn Star
Merlin Mann does a great blog on personal productivity at 43 Folders. After foodies watching and reading about food without actually cooking anything (food porn) and travel shows about places you’d never actually go or activities you’d never actually do (travel porn) this is productivity porn: an obsession with the detritus, in this case the … Read more