Top 10 Productivity Secrets of Highly Successful People
Matt Rissel interviewed 100 highly successful people, trying to find the tools they used to make themselves successful. Only problem? There wasn’t any tool commonality.
However, there was a principle commonality. Here are the top 10 common principles that highly successful people share. They tend to …
- Have passion for what they do
- Surround themselves with excellent people
- Create an environment within which excellent people can succeed
- Maintain simplicity
- Know their motivation
- Create their secret sauce
- Make their decisions be great
- Balance their lives
- Execute on priorities
- Build their own system
Scoble interviewed Rissel on FastCompany.tv - take a look:
Shwap that Shmap
From the somewhat cool and gently gratifying department: I’m in the Shmap.
What is the Shmap, you ask?
Exploring a Schmap Guide is a uniquely interactive experience: maps and guide content are dynamically integrated, allowing intuitive, real-time access to reviews and photo slideshows for places of interest.
They’re available for iPhone and iPod touch, and they use photos that amateurs like myself have taken. Here are the two places my photos are being used:
Not so mobile me
I signed up for a 60-day trial of Apple’s new MobileMe service today only to find it is not currently compatible with OS X 10.4.11, more commonly known as “Tiger.”
The latest version of Mac OS X is 10.5.x, or “Leopard.” My home machine runs Leopard; my PowerBook still runs Tiger - and the preference pane that is supposed to be Mobile Me is still the old .Mac.
Which means, unfortunately, that all of Apple’s instructions regarding how to sync my iPhone and laptop are useless.
Hopefully an update will soon be forthcoming …
Educational technology on a budget
I love seeing what smart creative people can do …
Reverse productivity
If someone could please explain to me why this application is in the “Productivity” category of iPhone applications, I would really like to know.
The entire application consists of a “game” of holding a button on your iPhone (or iPod touch) for as long as possible. Unshockingly, “Hold On” is the name of the application, and also the entire instruction manual.
The “app” is by IMAK Creations, and I can only assume it was their first attempt.
Funny!
At the very least, they’ve got people talking and linking, and that can’t be bad.
iPhone is myPhone
No time to publish much right now, except that yes, I finally have an iPhone. And yes, I’m pretty pumped about it.
It’s unnatural, a grown man being so excited by shiny plastic toys.
More later …
Gas prices driving distance education growth?
Are high gas prices driving faster adoption of distance education?
Distance education has already been growing rapidly over the last few years. But some are now seeing an even quicker uptake … and connecting that fact to higher gas prices. From a recent story in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
“It’s getting to the point of either gas or class,” says Robbie K. Melton, associate vice chancellor for the Tennessee Board of Regents, where this summer the number of students taking online courses spiked 29 percent, in part because of the high cost of buying gas to drive to campus.
Oil prices have doubled in just one year, and the price at the pump is expected to double again by 2010. With inflation like that, a 60 kilometre round trip that resulted in a daily gas bill of $10 a year ago is $20 today, and could be $40 in a few years. That’s going to drive a lot of behavior change - even among those who’d prefer in-person education.
“I would prefer to actually go to school and be there to do it,” says Ms. LaBadie, a single mother working toward a degree in medical administration. “But it’s hard enough paying tuition, much less the price of gas.”
Fortunately, this is happening at a time when the options and quality available for educators and corporations to provide e-learning have never been so good. Cheap, simple, and quick options such as Moodle are available and free to all, and there are other good open-source as well as proprietary solutions.
Increased use of distance education will likely drive increased investment as well, which is great for learners. Institutions usually don’t see it, but the majority of the costs associated with e-learning are not technology provisioning costs, they’re instructional resource development costs.
And that’s good news for educators as well.
Canadian cell $$$ petition & the iPhone
Given the astronomical iPhone plans that Rogers is foisting on Canadian consumers, it’s a good time to support David McGuinty’s cell phone costs petition.
(McGuinty is a Liberal member of parliament.)
Here’s the petition:
I’ve signed. 15 people have signed in the last 10 minutes while I’ve been putting this post together.
How about you?
[ update from ruinediphone.com ]
On Wednesday July 9, at 3:00 pm EDT David McGuinty, MP, will be making an official video statement on ruinediphone.com. Please check back then.
Interesting!
Hijacking traffic: Read-Write Web
Posting a link that does not go to where a reasonable web surfer thinks it will go is annoying, tacky, and perhaps even dishonest.
Here’s what I’m talking about - a recent story at ReadWriteWeb:
In fact, in the first paragraph, there are no less than 7 links - and no less than 7 of them are to ReadWriteWeb itself. This is a childish attempt at boosting traffic and gaming Google, and it’s below the stature of a site like ReadWriteWeb.
I left a comment … we’ll see if it stays live.
Please fix:
When you have a name linked, a visitor’s assumption is that the link is to the site associated with that name. Example: Reddit, in the first paragraph.
When you instead hijack that expectation and take users to your own website’s tag page for Reddit, you’re losing credibility and goodwill in order to eek out one more pageview from your readers.
Uncool, unprofessional, and in the long-run, unprofitable.
Mark of the beast
US citizens should be worried about this:
Hidden deep in the Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision inserted by Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses.The provision, which was added by the bill’s managers without debate two weeks ago, would require the nation’s payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government.
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