Stephen Wolfram on Personal Analytics
The creator of the Wolfram Alpha search engine explains why he thinks your life should be measured, analyzed, and improved Continue reading
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No Money In Email Clients
It seems there is no money in the email client space.
Some of the finest minds at Mozilla were unable to make Thunderbird financially self-supporting, having tried several methods, and now an Indigogo campaign to raise $100K for the Geary email client, with support from Bytemark and CiviCRM and with publicity on TechCrunch, has not met its target (they reached just over half the total). I have no inside insight into what’s going on at Postbox, but their last major release was in November 2011, most changes since then have been bug fixes, and most of their recent blog posts have been about price reductions or ways to get it cheaper. Continue reading
You Can’t Afford To Stop Using Mail
That’s why I’m building a better mail management called WeLoveMail. Because right now your mail hosting has blacklisted IP, you can’t effectively track your messages, you have 10 mail accounts and 10 interfaces, full inbox, …. We can fix all of that, and we can fix that now. Continue reading
The Beginner’s Guide to Quantified Self (Plus, a List of the Best Personal Data Tools Out There)
In other words, instead of relying on intuition or feelings, you use data. Your company’s growth rate, web traffic, conversions, and even the way users interact with your homepage are all measured and analyzed. If you aren’t measuring key metrics you won’t manage progress and you can’t make the best decisions. Continue reading
How the Productivity Myth is Killing Your Startup
Getting out of the productivity delusion is more powerful than any tool, methodology, rune or religion for getting more things done. It creates a pervasive approach of measurement and honesty. It yields more effective decision making. It results in clearer priorities and aligns work and resources with those priorities. It can be a true force multiplier on results as strategy, priorities and effort align with reality. My favorite effect is FOCUS. By cutting out the lies we tell ourselves about productivity, by prioritizing and planning and allocation better, we focus more on the things that actually matter. Continue reading
News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
News inhibits thinking. Thinking requires concentration. Concentration requires uninterrupted time. News pieces are specifically engineered to interrupt you. They are like viruses that steal attention for their own purposes. News makes us shallow thinkers. But it’s worse than that. News severely affects memory. There are two types of memory. Long-range memory’s capacity is nearly infinite, but working memory is limited to a certain amount of slippery data. The path from short-term to long-term memory is a choke-point in the brain, but anything you want to understand must pass through it. If this passageway is disrupted, nothing gets through. Because news disrupts concentration, it weakens comprehension. Online news has an even worse impact. In a 2001 study two scholars in Canada showed that comprehension declines as the number of hyperlinks in a document increases. Why? Because whenever a link appears, your brain has to at least make the choice not to click, which in itself is distracting. News is an intentional interruption system. Continue reading
Busyness is Not a Virtue
When you go on to other people, or to yourself, about being so busy, you’re often engaging in doublespeak. Let’s dig a little deeper to translate what you actually mean when you get in the habit of saying or acting like you’re too busy Continue reading
Mail Pilot Free yourself from the stress of email.
Yet, email is not going away, and the industry has no excuse for refusing to innovate. Users have been left to use a system that hasn’t seen real change in years. Sure, email clients have grown more features and newer designs, but throwing additional components and costumes on top of an impaired system has done more harm than good. Users are forced to use a complicated system of labels, folders, tags, and marking messages as unread to trick email clients to work how we want them to. Yesterday’s email no longer works in today’s world. Continue reading
Geary: a beautiful modern open-source email client
Yorba was founded to bring great software to the free desktop. That’s why we created Geary, a modern email client for the Linux desktop. We realized it was time for a fresh approach to email. Continue reading
Task.li
task.li turns emails into shared task lists for you.
How? As simple as it can get. Just add [email protected] as recipient. Continue reading