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• Optimize your life #10 - When to stop planning and start acting

  I often tell folks that schools teach bad habits as well as good ones. For one thing, your typical college course habituates students into believing that everything consists of neatly packaged problems that they can be graded on. Is that how people are Read More... Posted Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:27 PM by rkuo | 12 Comments Filed under: Optimize your life

• Optimize your life #9 - Planning vs action

  Everybody has to get things done. That's just a fact of life. However, how you go about getting things done varies tremendously from person to person. You might say that every time we do something, it consists of two simple phases…planning Read More... Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:37 AM by rkuo | 0 Comments Filed under: Optimize your life

• Optimize your life #8 - Read faster

  Well, that's an interesting title for an article. While I'm at it, I'll advise you to eat less. And make more money too. Actually, odds are that if you are reading this blog post you probably read pretty quickly already. But there are some people who Read More... Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 1:34 AM by rkuo | 1 Comments Filed under: Optimize your life

• Optimize your life #7 - A practical guide to the perfect audio book system

  OK, in the previous article I wrote about why audio books are a great alternative to the radio. This time, I'm going to make some specific recommendations about how to get yourself started. 1. Get an MP3 Player First order of business...you need an MP3 Read More... Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:12 PM by rkuo | 1 Comments Filed under: Optimize your life

• Optimize your life #6 - The daily commute and audio books

  In my last article , I talked about what kind of tasks we can successfully combine together to save time. This article discusses one specific way to multitask that I find useful, which is listening to audio books while driving to work. Best use of time Read More... Posted Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:08 AM by rkuo | 3 Comments Filed under: Optimize your life

• Optimize your life #5 - Successful multitasking

  As I've mentioned before, it's difficult for us, as mere human beings, to maintain our effectiveness when we try to switch rapidly between multiple tasks. It's nothing to be ashamed of...it's just how the species is wired. We're not computers, after all. Read More... Posted Saturday, May 27, 2006 6:47 PM by rkuo | 2 Comments Filed under: Optimize your life

• Optimize your life #4 - how to manage e-mail (2/2)

  This post is the second post in a series on how to manage your e-mail. The first post is here . Tip #3 - Use a "Getting Things Done" workflow for managing e-mail. I'm a huge fan of the "Getting Things Done" system for managing commitments, and managing Read More... Posted Saturday, April 15, 2006 2:30 AM by rkuo | 27 Comments Filed under: Optimize your life

• Optimize your life #3 - how to manage e-mail effectively (1/2)

  A few months ago, I did a " Getting Things Done " presentation for the team here at SnapStream. As I've mentioned before, GTD is a system developed by David Allen for organizing and dealing with your tactical commitments. The presentation focused on two Read More... Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:13 PM by rkuo | 16 Comments Filed under: Optimize your life

• Optimize your life #2 - Go minimalist

  As I move on from the inaugural tip , I feel I should mention that I write these tips from the context of what is right for me. I do not claim to know you personally or know exactly what's right for you. Nevertheless, I have synthesized my opinions from Read More... Posted Sunday, March 26, 2006 3:23 AM by rkuo | 2 Comments Filed under: Optimize your life

• Optimize your life #1 - Work on your passions

  I figured that it might be interesting to clue people in on the little things I do to try and improve my life. I find myself constantly picking up on little things that other people don't do and I'm sure I can help a few people by posting what I've learned Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 2:05 AM by rkuo | 1 Comments Filed under: Optimize your life