Design Adaptations

A couple weeks back FreelanceSwitch had an excellent article on how so many freelancers tend to disrespect their own time. It was an article I seriously needed to read, because I’m one of them. It’s often not by choice, however. Due to parental demands or household responsibilities which must be taken care of during “normal” [...]

If you’ve ever read the book Getting Things Done, you’re familiar with the concept behind it – empty your head of the things you need to do without taking a lot of time to do it, because that task itself should not be time consuming. The idea is to free your mind thereby increasing focus [...]

Several months back I was turned on to the idea of using a Moleskine notebook to enhance productivity. It became the perfect solution for me to jot down spur-of-the-moment thoughts and ideas, and now it goes with me everywhere. What I like best is the curved corners and elastic closure, the combination of which gives [...]

Why is it when inspiration hits, we’re often caught totally off guard? Why do some of the best ideas surface right before we drift off to sleep, when we’re too tired to get up and write them down? Or worse, in the car when we can’t write them down?
Capturing your ideas is often the most [...]

I’ve been really bad lately, putting off the public release of a couple projects I’ve had on the back burner (a Wordpress theme and an icon set). So I did a little reading to see what I could do to ward off my temptation to procrastinate. Here’s what I came up with. Maybe it will [...]