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Do you spend too much time juggling projects and tasks you’re unlikely to ever tackle? Maybe it’s because there’s stuff in there not worth doing? S ome people call it…
Checklists? You mean those lists I prepare each day that don't do anything to help my productivity? N o, it's not that kind of checklist I'm talking about. Are those…
For most of our life, we’ve heard, “Don’t be a snitch”. In most of the movies we’ve seen, the “snitchers’ don’t fare so well when their comrades discover their double-dealing.…
Everyone makes mistakes. That much we know for a fact, don’t we? S o, why do so many persist in their insistence that they did no wrong?Why are we are…
We’re good at saving paper, aren’t we? Too bad we’re lousy at finding them again right when we need them. E vernote is used by 300 million people to keep…