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Finch app helps some heel-draggers get dreaded tasks done

The rock: It can’t possibly matter if I do [annoying task] today. Aren’t we temporary? Brief ripples on the river of time? Why bother? The hard place: I feel bad about myself when I fail to do simple, if dreaded tasks. There is a path between these two, and an app called Finch helps me find it.

Mistaking projects for tasks causes drudgery

When projects appear as straightforward and simple as doing laundry, it’s easy to mistake them for tasks. But doing so makes any project harder and less fun to do. If that seems untrue or trivial to you, you might be assigning projects, but not executing them. Someone’s feeling drudgery, it’s just not you.

MonitorPi: How to use a Raspberry Pi to monitor hardware

Monitoring your hardware with the Raspberry Pi and a temperature sensor is more straightforward than you might think. This guide shows you how to leverage open-source tools and technologies to create a simple, cost-effective solution to monitor the environment in any server closet.

To work sustainably, think differently*

You’re a knowledge worker. You’re burned out. You want to find a way of working that’s more sustainable, a way that feels better, but you don’t know how because of reporting, because of the time clock, because of micromanaging bosses. From limitations come innovation. Time to get creative.

The folly of pursuing productivity

Here in the U.S., productivity is a national obsession. And as far as I’m concerned, it’s enough already. No more optimizing. No more maximizing. What do most of us average folks have to show for it, after all? Other than serious cases of burnout, I mean. I propose instead: sustainability.

How to cultivate the self-discipline necessary to succeed at working from home

If you have a harder time getting things done at home than you do in an office because you feel less accountable working from home, this post is for you. Short version: accountability has nothing to do with where you get your work done, and it’s more discipline—not more accountability—that can help.

Working remotely shouldn't mean more meetings

It’s easy to become dependent on real-time conversations in a colocated office. But when you transition to remote, if you don’t deliberately choose and continuously practice asynchronous working, an excess of meetings is the result, along with the ding to productivity that excess engenders.

Why and how to sync a KeePass database to the cloud

Are you using a password manager? Do it; it’ll make your life easier and your passwords more secure. We recommend KeePass—it’s free and open source. And by syncing your KeePass database with the cloud service of your choice, you’ll have no excuse for not regularly updating your passwords.

Remote work got you feeling isolated? Here’s what to do about it.

There’s a default way of thinking about the isolation and sense of disconnection that is a common byproduct of working remotely: It’s a problem, and only socializing can solve it. But look—what if there are benefits to the isolation? And what if there’s a better way to connect with your coworkers?

If you want to be productive, take good care of yourself.

In a productivity-obsessed environment (hi, USA), it’s easy—it’s even applauded by the rank and file of hustle culture—to put your own self-care dead last. But if gold standard productivity is your goal, you’d do better to give yourself your best, not your leftovers. Reader, heed my cautionary tale.

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