What is causing bee colony collapse disorder, and what can fungi do to help? What can most people do to take charge of their day and “hack” their brain to achieve peak performance?
The Bar Exam: Maximizing Time and Staying Sane
The bar exam is difficult, requires many hours of study, and heaps of information to memorize. Here are some tested methods to help you pass.
Microsoft To Do: Wunderlist Replacement?
Wunderlist will go away in favor of Microsoft To Do. Is To Do up to the task?
What You Need to Know About The Future of Remote Meetings: Virtual Reality and Video Chat in Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic presents novel problems for teams and businesses across the world to complete their work that, while social distancing and stay-at-home orders may have slowed, did not halt entirely as people still need essential services and their critical operations to continue. Social distancing and stay-at-home measures urged by the WHO, CDC, and Continue Reading
Best simple productivity applications for 2020
This article was originally published on February 24, 2017. Electronic to-do lists rock. Paper to-do lists as your main productivity platform are old-school and inefficient for recording thoughts and tasks leaving you to tackle what’s in front of you. While some people are looking for many bells and whistles with their productivity/to-do platform (if that Continue Reading
Best productivity applications 2019
If you want to be productive, you must be using some kind of productivity tool that backs up all of your tasks and allows you to keep your mind free to tackle whats in front of you. I’ve reviewed some of the top options to help you decide which to use.
Snake oil? I tried Onnit’s Alpha Brain. Here’s what happened
I was going into final exams this last fall and looking for something to amp up my studying to make up for all of the not studying. I had heard hundreds of ads for Alpha Brain from listening to the Joe Rogan Experience over the years and had some friend suggest it to me with Continue Reading
Sit, stand, or squat? Move over, standing desk
One researcher has touted the deep squat movement as “a toothbrush for our joints, ensuring they are all moving without any sticky or restricted areas.”
What is #YachtCocaineProstitutes and why is it trending on Twitter?
There’s never a dull day on Twitter, folks. Many woke up this morning to a surprising hashtag being attached to the name of one Californian GOP operative who’s been making headlines a lot over these past 2 years. Surprising though it isn’t, congressional representative Devin Nunes is suffering from a bout of the Streisand effect Continue Reading
Funniest Episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience
The Joe Rogan experience is probably my favorite podcast of all time, for a number of reasons. Aside from interesting guests researching cutting-edge issues, to politicians or athletes, the comedians are one of my favorite aspects of the Joe Rogan Experience. For those who do not listen to JRE, you might recognize Joe Rogan as Continue Reading
Steven Kotler resigns as Director of Research at Flow Genome Project
In an email to subscribers this morning, Steven Kotler, co-founder and Director of Research at the Flow Genome Project, resigned as the project’s director. In his email, Mr. Kotler assured readers that this change is a “cause for celebration” and that he will continue on his “same damn mission–decoding the neurobiology of flow.” Mr. Kotler Continue Reading
How to improve anything you do, faster
You track your steps taken in a day, distance running, followers on IG, to-do lists and calendar items, but you don’t track your time spent doing other things?
Reduce friction and ditch the vision board
Everyone has new habits they would like to integrate into their life. The problem is that adding new habits can be difficult. Learn to reduce friction.
Best complete time tracking applications
If you want to make progress on anything, you achieve it with selective, deliberate practice. A key to good deliberate practice is tracking your improvement, including the time spent on your activities, as well as other metrics you deem important. If you’re trying to become a faster reader, for instance, what better way is there to Continue Reading
TV Lawyers Who Were Masters of Their Craft
Part of the reason I went to law school was that of the inspiration from some of the finest legal minds I witnessed solving cases on television.
Trick to save hours of drafting time this year
Editing is just as important as getting the words on the page for the first time. Here’s what I have figured out over time.
How I Prepared For Law School Classes
I remember spending about an hour to read ten pages during my first semester of law school, on a good day, and was always wondering if there was a faster way to go about it. Today, I spend far less time reading for law school, as well as reading in general, but still manage to read each assigned case.
Making your home yoga practice habitual
Making yoga a daily habit can be challenging, but anyone can start with 10 minutes per day in a quiet area.
Scooters are the bee’s knees
Find a little “vacation” every day Have you seen these scooters yet? The two main competitors I’ve seen have been Bird and Lime. Riding is as easy as downloading their app on your phone and putting in your driver’s license and payment information. I first saw them in Santa Monica on vacation although didn’t have Continue Reading
Must-listen episodes of JRE (cont.)
One of my favorite podcasts is the Joe Rogan Experience. When Joe Rogan isn’t helping Elon Musk tank Tesla stock, the show is packed with interesting guests.
Price of unfair use: Oracle granted new trial on damages against Google
This article was originally written and published on jbtlonline.com by Ryan Ullman. What’s the license price of 11,000 lines of Javascript SE code? Google and the tech community are about to find out. The Federal Circuit on Tuesday reversed a jury verdict and denial of judgment as a matter of law in Oracle’s copyright infringement Continue Reading
Process to edit writing efficiently and effectively
Editing is a process. Spending as much time reviewing and editing as writing and rewriting is key to putting out good work. I can’t help you make your thoughts out any better, but I can pass some tips to help ensure you haven’t missed a comma or have accidentally a word when you self-edit. Writing Continue Reading
Responding to written discovery seeking social media
You know what the “E” in email stands for, right? “Evidence.” Just because someone has their online social media profiles and Tweets on “Private” so that their boss, LinkedIn contacts, and Aunt Becky can’t see embarrassing selfies and pictures of them at parties with cans of Bud Lite in their hand doesn’t mean that info is Continue Reading
Nine steps to a weekly review
What is a weekly review? A weekly review is so much more than simply “clarification” of your inbox items during a particular time of the week. It’s a chance for you to formulate short-term goals this week and plan your time to execute your long-term game-plan. Performing a weekly review is imperative to keeping productive Continue Reading
Bloom your coffee to the next level
If you know me you also know I love my coffee. I love coffee so much that I’m even willing to drink shitty coffee from yesterday that nobody else wanted. And it’s cold. But why drink acrid coffee when you can drink a cup that tastes really good? For the past couple years I have Continue Reading
Fix when iPhone is “Searching”
Note: This article is pretty much specifically for people who are experiencing the “Searching” issue on their iPhones. I’ve noticed a lot of people with this problem (especially when I’ve gone to stores on several occasions trying to get my phone fixed). I wish I had gotten this suggestion, as common sense as it is, Continue Reading
New desktop app remedies time-tracking troubles
Whenever I talk to people about tracking their time (I’m a riveting conversationalist) I overwhelmingly hear two common obstacles.
Push it and don’t feel guilty
Do not make yourself crazy trying to get necessarily everything done on your agenda. It’s okay to put off tasks for later. Things come up. Life will not stop while you send emails and go to meetings.
Stop Doing Now
Have you ever heard the advice: “If it takes less than two minutes, do it now.”? If we all followed this advice, how could we ever decide when to stop doing? I’ll teach you when to stop doing when to start adding items to your to-do list and then move on to whatever else you Continue Reading
Selective practice for hyper-productivity
Become more selective of which tasks you tackle and engage in deliberate practice. Do this by working intensely for short periods, seeking flow in your work. At the end of your work session, assess areas of improvement. Refine your technique for the next hyper-productive session.