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A good reminder as we search for productivity – beware of momentum killers. That hour you spend procrastinating on a big task by checking your email may cost you a few days before you can get back to working on the big task.

[ Aaron Swartz ] How Aaron Swarts Hires Programmers is a little different to the traditional multi-phase interview approach. Looks like it would do a better job of making a cohesive team, but may prove troubling for larger organisations as it doesn’t tick all the HR boxes.

[ gavin ] Anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript – turn the tables on an unwelcome call by following these instructions

An animation illustrating the worsening face of unemployment in the USA.

Read the essence of time management in one paragraph, and then get on with being productive.

[ craig ] Teenage boys have an approach to getting work done that can at best be described as pragmatic: at worst, though, it’s laziness and disorganisation. A few ideas on how the transition can be made to something better (simply staying alive for a few more years is often not enough).

We still need URLs now for navigating the web, but are URLs in danger of disappearing altogether?

Despite the “seven steps” title of the post, these thoughts on finding work/life balance are worth considering. Are you productive for your whole work day, or is the work culture making you spend a bunch of time at your desk for the sake of it? Perhaps you could have a job that has a better …

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[/karen/] These principles of staging helped me to understand how some of the visual language of screen and comic work to establish the relative dominance of characters. I’m not sure how it will be useful yet, but I’m glad to know about it!

Can Stories Increase the Value of Objects by 6,000 Percent? – ebay tests confirm this to be the case.