Redefining Desktop Time

The Liberating Constraint

Let's begin with a thought experiment. Imagine you are placed under a single, artificial constraint: on any given day, you are only allowed to work at your primary desktop or laptop for four 15-minute windows. That's one total hour of "desk time," broken into …

You Don't Need Another App

At work, we live by systems. We operate within the structured worlds of CRMs, Asana backlogs and periodic reviews . We're systems-rich. We also strive to make our customers systems-rich.

But the moment we step out of the office, we become systems-poor. Our personal and creative …

This post is a journey of abstractions. These abstractions stand on the shoulders of a few command line utilities that combine well. If you are the kind of programmer who dwells in command line terminals for much of your waking hours, read on. Your productivity is about to get booster …