Today’s TED Thursday features an awesomely eloquent and honest talk by Nigel Marsh on work-life balance. Most of the self-help / motivational / bullshit literature on work-life balance give you useless platitudes: “Go to the gym in the morning! Skip lunch so you can meet friends for dinner! Wear jeans to work! (Seriously, wtf) Sleep […]
The Big Picture had a great post yesterday on how to increase productivity by working like a sprinter. Several studies show that people are way more effective when they work in short bursts of 90 mins and take short breaks in between, as compared to forcing themselves to do tasks for long hours at a stretch.
Zen Habits has a great post today on creating a habit for fitness, but the advice can be applied to any resolution you’re making for the new year: “But resolutions never last. As you might already know, I’m not a fan of resolutions. Instead of creating a list of resolutions this year, create a new habit. Habits last,
Decided to start a regular series called Ted Thursdays, where I’ll share some of my favorite Ted.com videos every week. If you haven’t already checked out or heard of Ted, maybe you should stop watching porn and start doing something meaningful online. I -love- Ted.com. I use their app to watch videos on the long-ass bus/subway
An amendment to my previous post (thanks Sharon!) – just found out that DBS/POSB slashed their interest rates to a pathetic 0.05% for their regular savings accounts, and 0.2%-0.25% p.a for a MySavings account. To give you an idea about how painful that is, consider that $1,000 saved at a 0.05% interest rate, compounded monthly
It’s the day after Christmas and everyone’s trying to figure out their resolutions for 2012. Funny thing about resolutions – why the hell is it so damn HARD to stick to them? We all know they’re good for us, we all know they’re not physically impossible to do, yet time and time again we fail
Okay it might be a little late for this, but if you haven’t spent a bomb on your Christmas presents yet, read on. There’s a reason why the government wants most Singaporean companies to pay out their Annual Wage Supplement (AWS), more commonly known as the 13-month bonus, in December. SO YOU CAN PAY IT
So I’m a huge fan of productivity hacks – partly because I work in a Large Faceless Corporation and am subject to the usual administrative nightmares that face employees of Large Faceless Corporations (in case any of my colleagues are reading this, I actually like my job. Seriously, I do. But more on that later).
So I decided to start this blog like how I usually decide to do most things: on a lark. And I spent a good part of the past week trying to come up with an awesome title for it. I was still thinking about it and typing it down on my phone while getting my
