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Productivity guru David Allen—he of the popular Getting Things Done productivity system—writes on the New York Times about how technology overwhelms and damages our productivity. His solution: A five-step approach to prioritizing your focus.
As Allen lays it out, technology helps us accomplish previously huge tasks in less time, but that also means workers are responsible for an increasing list of tasks and responsibilities, and the result is an often overwhelmed workforce. Allen's five-step solution will look familiar to those conversant with GTD, which many of you are. The quick version looks a little like this:
Grab a notebook and dump every task begging for your attention into said notebook.Expand on the outcome you want from each item. Allen's previously mentioned two-minute rule applies here—if you can cross any of these tasks off your list in two minutes, you should do it now.Set up reminders for everything left in your list.Review and update your tasks weekly. (Allen suggests two hours every week.)Having captured your tasks thusly, "deploy your attention and resources appropriately".
That last bit may read a little like "Step 5: ? Step 6: Profit!", but Allen's basic idea is that the biggest obstacle to managing your time and resources is simply a matter of not having a solid grasp of everything you're responsible for, and that having captured and organized all of those tasks, you'll be able to make better decisions about how you spend your time.
Check out the full post for more details, and if you're a die-hard GTDer, let's hear how Allen's system works for you (particularly regarding focusing your resources) in the comments. Photo by ostill.
When Office Technology Overwhelms, Get Organized | NYT
Fixing young America may seem like no easy task. Unemployment looms over the heads of recent graduates, and for those preparing to graduate, opportunity seems elusive. #FixYoungAmerica is a campaign that got its start by Young Entrepreneur Council. Their mission? To provide a solution to the question of How to overcome the epidemics of youth unemployment and underemployment and #FixYoungAmerica?
Their take on the campaign? “If we genuinely want Millennials — and future generations — to survive and thrive in the new economy, then we need real solutions, and we need them now. Help me #FixYoungAmerica”
Recommended below are some resources that can benefit young and motivated entrepreneurs achieve goals, or even life-long dreams:
Kickstarter, the online crowdfunding startup is reported to distribute an estimated $150 Million to promote Kickstarter projects, just this year alone. According to Wire Inc. and Talking Points Memo, that’s $4 million more than the fiscal budget for the National Endowment of the Arts, which is an independent federal agency that supports the arts and artists it associates with. One of Kickstarter’s most important assets is that unlike the NEA, the way they choose eligible candidates is through their an application on their site. Applying through Kickstarter is much less a daunting task for timid artists and entrepreneurs, because they recognize talent and motivated young people trying to make a business move that may one day make the world a better place.
Crowdsourcing isn’t a completely new trend in society, but Kickstarter spins it to allow everybody an equal chance at getting their next startup idea funded by the generosity of strangers that fully support their idea.
Zach Sims, founder of Codecademy had an idea that would flip the cost of knowledge from years worth of student debt by providing free coding to anyone with an Internet connection. As simple as the tag line of the site is, “Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It’s interactive, fun, and you can do it with friends”, it summarizes the exact point of what Codecademy is trying to achieve — beating the digital divide.
As technology continues to grow on it’s rapidly moving path, there is a lot of concern that a “digital divide” will split society amongst those that understand how to interact with the technology, and the other side of the divide may be left in the dust. Learning how to code not only helps the mind to develop good habits, but can also help minimize technology’s seemingly cruel learning curve, which is why Codecademy is a brilliant resource for entrepreneurs young and old.
MassChallenge is a company lead by CEO John Hawthorne, who pledges to “catalyze a startup renaissance.” If you happen to be an early-stage entrepreneur looking for that golden opportunity – the accelerate program has your back. With an annual startup competition, MassChallenge puts your teams to work by providing a 3 month accelerator program that includes world class mentorship, access to funding, and a free office space to cook up your incubated ideas. To find out more about this program, simply go here.
Author of The Education of Millionares Michael Ellsberg has a different approach to education. Rather than using a degree or MBA as a credibility marker, social media assets like the number of Twitter followers, LinkedIn connections, or your blog or startup’s Page Rank are factors that lend to one’s credibility in this day and age. A modern version of credibility now comes in the form of social networking, and the ability to engage with influential community leaders.
Hack College friends The Youth Entrepreneurship Act has a strong interest when it comes to getting young entrepreneurs the help and assistance they need in order to overcome this tough economy. With the Youth Entrepreneurship Act, student loans are forgiven or deferred for young entrepreneurs which would forgive or defer student loans for young entrepreneurs using the Income Based Repayment System.
If you’d like to donate to #FixYoungAmerica’s $30,000 goal, you can do so through their IndieGoGo page.
Greg is the Outreach Editor of Hack College, and was formerly a Social Media Strategist at AOL, and consultant for College Humor.
Websites that you have opened in tabs in your favorite browser use system resources as long as they are open. Some may even be active in the background. Facebook for instance displays the number of notifications in the title tab, and some other sites might play music or a video in the background. This all sums up, and if you have a lot of tabs open, you may feel the strain especially on slower systems.
TabMemFree for Chrome does what BarTab did for the Firefox web browser. It automatically puts websites that have not been active for a specific amount of time in sleep mode. This mode unloads the website from memory to free up system resources.
The extension does this by forwarding the tab to an empty page. This happens in the same tab of course, and is indicated to the user by a title change only. Websites can be reactivated with a click on the tab. This basically loads the website anew in the tab. The downside here is that it may take longer for the website to be displayed, as it needs to be loaded and rendered again in the browser.
Tabs that have been put in sleep mode this way stay in the mode even if the browser is closed and opened again. This can have a positive effect on the Chrome browser’s start-up time as less websites need to be loaded.
The extension is currently marked as beta, which means that it may be unstable on some systems. The developer notes that users may experience issues with the extension, like losing form data on tabs that go into sleep mode or music or video playback being interrupted when it is coming from a tab in the background. (via Addictive Tips)
TabMemFree currently offers no whitelisting of websites or tabs that you do not want to unload after some time of inactivity. It is likely that the feature gets added in a future version of the extension.
