Month: June 2006

Black belt Productivity

I just stumbled upon an amazing blog called black belt productivity. Simple amazing. This is all about being productive, and getting your system together. The two authors (Jason and Micheal) do a very impressive job of both giving a lot of info, and yet havng a very nice and clean design to their website.

Besides a lot of things, something work checking out is their very thorough primer of the Getting Things Done (GTD) book by David Allen.

Please do go and visit the site and get impressed yourself.

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Do you need 8 hours of sleep ?

Relentless productivity (found through lifehack.org) has a pretty good article, on whether you need 8 hours of sleep. He gives a couple of references to show that, the must-sleep-8-hours is a fallacy. He says that each person has their own sleep requirement. There is also a nice way to experiment and determine your sleep requirement. Try it out yourself.

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Get back your machine (from Windoze)…

If you are stuck with Windows on your company machine (or laptop), and want to recapture your machine from the clutches of Microsoft, Cygwin is the deal. Cygwin is a small unix core that works as an app with windows, and gives access to most Unix programs that you would need – a good shell (with tab completion), midnight commander, and even a minimal desktop manager like Window Maker.

Check out a detailed feature-listing here from the one and only lifehacker.com here.

Download cygwin from here.