This article belongs to the telecommuting and geographical independence series. It doesn’t matter what your job is about, the routine is the same every day and it starts early in the morning: emails, news, events, requests and if you use a computer to work, the situation is even worse: Twitter, Facebook and other hundreds of sites that… Continue reading How to organize yourself, find time to work and be happy in the process
Category: Lifestyle
4 Tools to organize your life
Very few people manage to establish a fundamentalist separation between their work spaces and their homes. Normally our work follows us home; our shores chase us to work and they both follow us outside. How many times – for instance– have we arrived at the office only to find that the file we worked on… Continue reading 4 Tools to organize your life
When was the last time you did a backup?
Thou shalt back up frequently is one of my commandments. According to a recent study, only 28% of people perform a daily backup. And knowing my friends, that seems encouraging! There’re only two kinds of hard drives: the ones that have failed and the ones that are going to fail. A Google Study (who uses… Continue reading When was the last time you did a backup?
Fitness, diets and the January Panic
This Google Trends chart is very revealing. A lot of us set off to lose some weight after the holidays. Our interest in dieting decreases over the course of the year, reaching an absolute low in December. Come January, we panic again. How long until we have a human behavior model based on our Google… Continue reading Fitness, diets and the January Panic
4 Tools for Working Remotely
Or how to telecommute without disappearing This article belongs to the telecommuting and geographical independence series. If there’s an aspect of the digital revolution that I’m passionate about, is the possibility we have to be omnipresent through technology. Thanks to mobile computing and the drop in telecommunication costs, everyday there’re fewer reasons to work in an… Continue reading 4 Tools for Working Remotely