The Isolator – For working in open concept work environments
❧ Eric Portelance
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1.16.2012
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New week, new episode of North America’s favourite podcast about shame, doubt, and regret. ;)
This is as close as you’ll get to New Year’s resolutions from us: Eric talks about how he came to write a self-critical personal manifesto for 2012, and Sean offers his theory of a “threshold of distasteful actions” as one of the roots of procrastination.
Next week, we dig into Eric’s manifesto.
We mention:
- Sean’s New Year’s Eve exercise for recognizing your accomplishments
- Episode 42, with Jon Crowley
- Episode 38: Valuing What You Do
- the Inbox Zero method
11.9.2011
7.14.2011
Boardrooms are functionally collaboration ghettos. Building a space that cuts off collaboration from the tools and trappings of the actual work, makes no sense to me. Put me in a room to think and generate ideas, but all the tools of creation and research and inspiration are locked away at a desk.
I wish I had written this. Great post from my pal Jon Crowley on an issue I have been trying to articulate for some time.
1.7.2011
On Resolutions: Stop Blaming the Pancake →
Merlin Mann on the futility of New Years resolutions. He even references one of my favourite Seinfeld bits.
I’ll go further and say that the repeated compulsion to resolve and resolve and resolve is actually a terrific marker that you’re not really ready to change anything in a grownup and sustainable way. You probably just want another magic wand.
Otherwise you’d already be doing the things you’ve resolved to do. You’d already be living those changes. And, you’d already be seeing actual improvements rather than repeatedly making lists of all the ways you hope your annual hajj to the self-improvement genie will fix you.
12.20.2010
Jason Fried — Why work doesn’t happen at work.
10.26.2010
Would you expect someone to get a good night’s sleep if they were interrupted all night? Then how can you expect someone to get a good day’s work if they are interrupted all day?
