Reading Time: 5 minutes Recently, there’s been a lot of buzz surrounding AI in the productivity realm. Writing apps, such as Craft, have added AI to their list of features. From within Craft, you can request the AI to create a summary or outline of your document, write an article based on your outline, or write about a topic. …
Reading Time: 4 minutes I don’t see much written in tech circles about introversion. I think that’s strange because it appears to me most tech nerds are introverts. 1. Are You an Introvert? There is a lot of misunderstanding about what introversion is. In our culture, extroversion is held up as the ideal personality. Many introverts grow up thinking …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many, if not most, of us who write experience self-doubt about whether our writing is any good, has any value, and what that says about us as individuals. Even well-published, professional writers suffer from the same feelings. Diana Gabaldon is the author of the award-winning, #1 NYT-bestselling Outlander series of novels. She has a scientific …
Reading Time: 5 minutes Surgery on my right shoulder (I’m right-handed) in late December motivated me to try using dictation more on my iPad and Mac. I have dabbled in using dictation but haven’t used it very consistently. During the past week and a half I’ve extensively used dictation to: • Write emails and messages. • Write notes on …
Reading Time: 5 minutes According to writer Todd Henry in Daily Creative, steady, deliberate progress is the key to creative success. It takes three things to get things done and bring about creative success: 1. Commit to steady, deliberate progress; 2. Do it every day, and; 3. Work even when you don’t feel like it. The key to creative …
Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s almost always a mistake for me to just sit down and start writing on a topic, or start working on a project without first thinking in detail about what I want to do and how I want to do it. I need to take time first to think things through. Mind mapping is the …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Most of us who identify as nerds are introverts, and that means we’re natural planners and organizers. We enjoy the process of thinking about things and organizing elaborate systems and plans for doing projects. However, sometimes we’re so into planning and preparing to do something that we never get anything done. We never act. “Motion …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Elon Musk and the Twitter meltdown have taught us a needed lesson. That lesson is that it’s extremely unwise to build our presence on a social media platform. It Was Always a Bad Idea In a recent blog post, Joe Moyer highlights a post by Brent Simmons, titled “After Twitter.” In his post, Simmons argues …
Reading Time: 6 minutes Garbage in, Garbage Out 2,000 years ago Marcus Aurelius wrote, “‘The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” Henry Todd, writing in the Daily Creative, tied this concept into the creative process: “There are few things that affect your creative process more than …
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Growing Popularity of Building a Second Brain “Building a Second Brain,” (BASB) is a Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system developed by Tiago Forte. Recently it’s been receiving lots of attention in the productivity and business world. Forte recently published a book by that title and has appeared on numerous tech and business podcasts to …