Comments on: Productivity tip #3: Remove distracting stuff from your field of view.

By: Jon Jones

Jon Jones — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:59:13 +0000

That kicks ass. I’m gonna see if I can get the (other) fatties that work here to do it with me!

By: Chris Holden

Chris Holden — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:06:28 +0000

Here’s a little productivity tip:

One thing a few of us used to do back at Jaleco was hourly pushups. As in, every hour on the hour, do a quick set of push-ups. It’s a good way to keep the blood flowing, and help keep a regular schedule because you realize exactly when each hour has passed. We’d have guys join us that couldn’t do 5, but within week were hitting 20 no problem. So you’re keeping up with how much work you’ve done, and getting fit!

By: jonjones

jonjones — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:03:40 +0000

Rick, potato, potatoe ;)

Pete, I agree that it can be distracting. But what I do is set up Windows key keyboard shortcuts within Winamp so I never need to open it to control it:

Winkey + Z = Previous Track
Winkey + X = Play
Winkey + C = Pause
Winkey + V = Stop
Winkey + N = Next Track

Winamp is also always in a systray icon, never on my desktop, so I can use only two keys to invisibly and effortlessly control it. :)

By: Pete the athlete

Pete the athlete — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:29:48 +0000

I’ve noticed that even the ‘skip’ button of your cd-player/winamp/whatever you use to listen to music can be pretty distracting, when the current song sucks.

Might be the best, not to listen to music at all?

By: Rick Stirling

Rick Stirling — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:14:21 +0000

Naw man, they are not distractions, they are inspirations ;)