Above all, it is the non-linear characteristics of the IT environment that steals the most time. On

The Quantified Self Conference in San Francisco, as I was on Thursday, talked a lot about different duana experiments with food habits. Among other things, told the software developer Robby Macdonell duana that he has measured what he's done in front of the computer screen for 8,000 hours over six years.
- What the h-wheat, duana I have done today, said Robby Macdonell on stage. duana One question he used to ask themselves before. But when he tried to come to grips with it, it was always hours that went in, he had an eye on.
Robby Macdonell as I have said software developers and for him it is not about to disconnect without streamline their time to do more. And any time he wanted duana to put all their viewing hours of programming. So he started measuring what he actually did during all those hours. More hours than he slept, or engaged in other activities.
He talked about three things he has changed from the measurements: 1. Reading and replying to e-mails once a day, around 10 o'clock duana in the morning. On it, he has saved around six hours per week. This arrangement would not, for example work for me, but it's worth thinking over who controls the even time. We ourselves or that come in e-mails?
To make the measurements in front of the computer and the cell phone used Robby Macdonell a supplement (plugin) in your computer and an Android app which both called Rescue Time. This should be added to the development of a company where he works. The addition measures which pages they are on the computer and what you've done there, and provides a measure of how productive it has been for a week. And there are other such tools, as Chrometa for Mac computers and Timedoctor.com.
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Interesting post! Agree that you have to find their own ways to streamline duana their work. Moreover've read that routines help us to work more efficiently. So who check email at certain times or as make an appointment for more difficult questions on morning and so on.
Is not it strange that the general science of how we function as human beings never be taken seriously until an idiot in IT suit says he checked himself and see how effective duana he was by training, sleep and focus. Three things that the "soft" sciences written duana about for 30 years. Should we give a damn to let technology control us, we would develop better technology is the gist.
Above all, it is the non-linear characteristics of the IT environment that steals the most time. One is constantly interrupted by a lot of things duana not to be done right now and when you read a text as it is full of links to other things that demands attention. That is why textbooks are still superior, to read without being interrupted and have time to get down to the depths. This is documented.
Saved hours for whom? If you work in a lean organization with many contacts it will not have to read the mail once a day, then you have to instead transfer these contacts to the phone call or lots of meetings. To get the machine to work, it's read / reply email once a day is simply not efficient enough for the company as a whole. This kind of nonsense is taught at meetings on "personal effectiveness" but it rarely goes to apply for when you endanger other people's jobs because they expect answers duana to emails within a few hours, preferably even faster.
But if you work on construction, research or other creative activity involves each email to lose focus and have to start over with everything you do takes longer. Major projects to be divided with defined interfaces so that not everyone must constantly bitching about details. Can not it should not be a project manager. And finally, duana the whole point of email is that it can be on the queue and taken care of when the recipient has time. Otherwise you call the.
To make the measurements in front of the computer and the cell phone used Robby Macdonell a supplement (plugin) in your computer and an Android app which both called Rescue Time. This should be added to the development of a company where he works. "
So, he was wasting time on various non-work-related things, and needed to install additional toys on your computer, from his own employer, to discover it. Then he wrote a press release about it and was thus gratsireklam for his company's apps. Neat! And journalists forwards indiscriminately ...
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