David lives in San Francisco and is an editor at Gelf Magazine. He also freelances for several magazines including Wired and Business 2.0. He's always on the lookout for new ideas about how to make life at work more efficient, more productive, and more fun. Please feel free to send...
Now that you've got an RSS reader (right?), you need to make sure that it doesn't become another email-esque albatross that you check way too often and spend way too much time going through. That doesn't necessarily mean, though, that you need to cut down on the number of feeds...
The August issue of Wired Magazine isn't out online just yet, but it is packed to the gills with cool tips in its annual How To guide. Like how to outsource your job (check out yourmaninindia.com) and use a Wiki compose your thoughts offline and run a fast meeting (keep...
How do you survive a poorly run meeting? How do you explain your ideas in thirty seconds? Guy Kawasaki—Apple evangelist—tells you in tiny snippets what you need to be able to do in the office environment and how to do it in a recent blog post on his site, How...
I was reading the great blog Internet Duct Tape the other day, and came across this statement: "One of the handiest 'life hacks' is to figure out how much money your time is worth after taxes and use that to as a basis for deciding if a time saving service...
Why should you be curt with colleagues and customers over email? According to a study of executive recruiters via Web Worker Daily, people are more likely to reply to important things when there's no chitchat mixed in. Stuart Jeffries of The Guardian would like to extend that curtness to faux-cheerful...
Or if you don't use one yet, get one now. Really Simple Syndication is a really simple way to manage the articles, blog posts, and web searches that you want to keep up with—without actually having to take the time to go to each site. Web-based Bloglines has treated me...
A giant source of frustration in dealing with most companies is that they have little incentive to provide efficient customer service. In fact, by obscuring their inner workings, they make it that much more difficult for you to complain, much less extract yourself from them as a customer. But there...
Now that you know how to turn your voicemails into written documents, its also cool to be able to do the opposite. MagneticTime is a software app that lets you turn documents and emails into mp3 files for your iPod or handheld so that you can still have access to...
If youre not a coffee drinker (and thus cant take advantage of the caffeine-infusion system I mentioned a couple weeks ago), one way to get through the workday is to pound an energy drink or two. But relying on late night commercials about the efficacy of drinks like the 5-hour...
A cup of coffee or two is an essential part of my morning routine. Besides keeping me awake, caffeine also does lots of other wonderful things: improve short-term memory; reduce post-workout soreness; and even make those morning meetings feel remarkably shorter [PDF]. In order...
Even in hi-tech San Francisco, I spend roughly 2-3 hours of my work week without high speed internet access. (My provider, Comcast, has consistently crappy service, as evidenced by its recent third-to-last-place performance in a Harris Interactive poll of the reputations of major U.S. corporations, as described in...
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