36 Secrets The Productivity Gurus Won’t Tell You (But Our Heretics Will)
May 21st, 2010
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What do brushing your teeth backwards and working on the worst day of your life have in common? They’re tips that you won’t get from the productivity gurus, but which can nevertheless work really well for you.
Ali Hale and Thursday Bram have started a new blog called Constructively Productive. One of their first entries is a huge collaborative list post consisting of 36 answers to the question: “What’s your biggest productivity tip that flies in the face of ‘conventional’ advice?” (Mine’s #22.)
Check out 36 Secrets the Productivity Gurus Won’t Tell You (But Our Heretics Will). It’s a good way to brighten your Friday while picking up some useful tips at the same time. One word of warning though: one size does not fit all (after all, that’s why they call them heretics).
May 21st, 2010 at 7:47 am
Yays! Thanks for the link — and for contributing to that one (I was sorry that our picture size meant your hat got cropped!)
It was a really fun post to organise and put together … and the quality and range of the responses was absolutely fantastic!
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:41 pm
@ Ali, yeah, unusual picture dimensions sometimes cause problems! Thanks for putting that post together, and I hope a lot of people get to see it.
February 13th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Hunter,
are you sure those 36 secrets will help me? I’d have problems remembering anything after the first 5-6 secrets. There is no way I’d remember the 36 so I’d stay productive, not that I needed to remember them.
That reminds me of the very successful book by David Allen, Getting Things Done. Although a good book, it was to much work to implement. I did get Todoodlelist, that was a cool read but again, I had to keep looking at the diagrams to remember what was what.