sidsavara
Joined 18 years ago
Joined 18 years ago
I like it because it's free, and I can even sync it with my iphone free - just have to pay $1.99 for the app
Nice clean interface, has a nice Google Chrome extensions, and for me it is intuitively how I order things - by date and importance. I just use "Project -> Task" to signify next actions within projects
http://sidsavara.com/personal-development/today-is-your-gold...
Since people enjoyed this video, here's the HN link - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112797
The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris - Really made me think about life and the work I do
Tribes by Seth Godin - Love this book.
The Dip by Seth Godin - read it before, reread it again this year
Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina - really had to struggle to get past the beginning, was fantastic once I did
Find Your Great Work by Michael Bungary Stanier - I liked this one a lot, motivational
The Power of Less by Leo Babauta - no surprises here, I enjoyed the book, it reads like you would expect it to. Some new insights that aren't on the blog
Superfreakonomics by Stephen Levitt and Dubner
Blink, The Tipping Point and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (I liked The Tipping Point the best out of those 3)
Free by...Chris Anderson (?) I forget. Very interesting.
Team Up by Pete Mockaitis - Great read about accountability groups, subset of a mastermind group IMO.
Collapse by Jared Diamond - Very interesting looks at patterns in civilizations. Some people I spoke to get bored after a few examples, it is a little repetitive but I enjoy the parallels
My old faves are of course Gettings Things Done, 7 Habits, Greatest Salesman in The World, and How to Win Friends and Influence People.
More details here: http://sidsavara.com/personal-development/best-personal-deve...
I regularly (and will be posting a bunch in the next couple weeks) post reviews of books I read here: http://sidsavara.com/product-reviews
Both apps sync with the web, and offer offline modes. This makes it easy to use no matter where I am. I used to use my blackberry and outlook, but really wanted web integration.
To expand, bananas may be relatively high sugar/energy compared to other natural foods (green vegetables), but they cannot compare with the super concentrated foods we have created such as Twinkies =)
http://sidsavara.com/product-reviews/review-of-rescuetime-fr...
Of course if you're using Unix, you can get the linux version (which I don't believe is officially supported).
Just knowing where I am spending my time makes me more productive and less likely to randomly web surf etc
Dopamine, rewards, pleasure center of the brain -> http://sidsavara.com/personal-development/personal-developme...
Willpower research -> http://sidsavara.com/personal-development/will-power-how-to-...
It is also cheap enough that I am not too concerned with it getting lost or broken
I get a legitimate 4-5 hours of battery life (tested - I fly Hawaii to Los Angeles)
Genius headline though. Caught my attention. sigh