Archive for the Out Of The Box Category

Getting Rid of Ants

Posted on July 5, 2010 by

Since today is a holiday here in the U.S., I’m going to detour from the usual productivity article. Instead, I will tell you of something that happened recently. I love nature. I take a live-and-let-live approach to it, trying hard not to interfere with the critters that live around my [...]

Continue Reading

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Posted on May 31, 2010 by

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog. Since today is a holiday in the U.S., I’m going to skip the usual productivity post and let you in on something that really knocked my socks off. About a month ago, I started hearing about a book. People I respect were reading [...]

Continue Reading

What To Expect As A Consultant

Posted on April 16, 2010 by

Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog. I’ve spent most of my career as a software consultant. My job was to go into places and provide expert skills for the project at hand. The skills could range from design to requirements to process improvement to project management to programming. As [...]

Continue Reading

Simple Productivity (in seventeen syllables)

Posted on February 25, 2010 by

This is a guest post by Rich @Haiku-It! Haiku-It! – where less is more. Applying the limiting structure of haiku to modern life; keeping it short, simple, and to the point.If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.       Focus essential,eliminate distractions,realistic [...]

Continue Reading

Followup to Weather Applications

Posted on January 30, 2010 by

Some of you might have wondered at my last article, and my concern about the weather. It has proved to be very handy in the last 24 hours. You see, I live in an area of the United States that doesn’t get snow. Our major weather events are nor’easters and [...]

Continue Reading

Concerto Living

Posted on January 13, 2010 by

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. I’m a musician, both by training, and often by how I think. My life has a soundtrack, both of music and non-music, and there are a lot of things that I find in music that apply to everyday living. One of those things [...]

Continue Reading

Best Books I Read In 2009

Posted on January 7, 2010 by

Guess what? I don’t spend all of my free time reading productivity books. In fact, 2009 was a banner year for reading fiction. Usually I stick to the same sort of books every time. I like cozy mysteries, or the classics. But this year I branched out a bit, and [...]

Continue Reading

Sunday Rant: Does The Character of Authors Matter?

Posted on December 20, 2009 by

I’ve gotten involved in a discussion over at a group about productivity in response to a question about an author’s ethics. The person asking the question was planning on getting the book, but found a review that made him raise questions. I answered with a specific example of what I [...]

Continue Reading