Work Less and Do More

What kind of conflicts / compatibilities have you had with roommates? For example, the old stereotype is that one roommate leaves dirty dishes in the sink and it drives the other roommate crazy. What’s your pet peeve / experience / story about roommate situations?

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In my recent episode How to be Prepared to Give Your Opinion, I gave Bernice her voice, and Melvin as well. This was partially motivated by watching too many episodes of Family Guy and being awestruck that Seth MacFarlane could be the voice behind so many of the characters. The fact that he has made [...]

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I use a special email service that lets me create a unique email address every time I sign up for a mailing list. I sign up for Amazon as “amazon@specialdomain.com.” Bill’s Bait Shop knows me as billsbaitshop@specialdomain.com. If one day, ads for body part enlargement powder starts arriving in my amazon@specialdomain.com mailbox, I know that [...]

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I’m coming out with the book, “The Get-it-Done Guy’s Nine Steps to Work Less and Do More” in August 2010. I’d like to build a business around the book that’s sufficient to support me. My theory is that step one is building an audience. I want to build my audience as large as possible between [...]

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I’m writing a passage in my book about the power of having a large network. The more supporters you have, the more your network can support you without being a burden on any one member of your community.
Do you have any examples of how your network has helped you? As usual, your response constitutes approval [...]

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I’m working on the book’s “de-stressing” chapter. I’m not happy with the current draft and want to reorganize it. I’m brainstorming about different causes of stress and how that might drive the chapter.
What are your major causes of stress? Mine are deadlines, broken software or hardware, bad customer service reps, and low blood sugar.
How about [...]

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The reality of my current book draft is that I need to cut a lot. Thanks to my not understanding the difference between pages in Word and printed pages, my last manuscript was about twice the length the book needs to be.
The organizing principle for the book is my tag line: Work Less and Do [...]

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I’m working on my book chapter about multi-tasking. There are studies out there that show multitasking severely degrades performance. From what I can tell, however, they’re talking about trying to do two things at exactly the same time. For example, talking on the phone and typing an email.
The kind of multitasking I find particularly pernicious [...]

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As you know if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, I own both a Mac and a PC. I’ve been a PC user since MS-DOS-only machines. Two years ago I switched to a Mac after having to do three complete disk wipes + reinstalls on my Windows machines (two desktops and a laptop) in [...]

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I’m reading an article on how Henry Paulson had talks with Goldman Sachs when he was designing the financial bailout. Of course he claims there was no favoritism or influence. Politicians also claim they’re not too influenced by lobbyists. And a few years ago, Cokie Roberts generated some heat when it turns out she was [...]

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