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Turn your outside, rear view mirrors out on your car to completely expose your blind spot. When done right, you should have a continuous field of vision by scanning your eyes from your inside, middle rear view mirror to the outside mirror, and then by turning your head very slightly while still scanning your eyes to catch the cars directly to your sides. It's disorienting at first because you can't see the sides of y…
I think State Farm sent me that tip once. It makes it very easy to set mirrors up when you're in a strange car. And you verify by making sure that objects leaving one mirror enter the next one.
I can definitely recommend the Dvorak layout. If you think Colemak will be even better then go for it!
Thank you! Well I'm sure the Dvorak layout is much better than the QWERTY layout, but from what I've read, Colemak makes it easier to use default shortcuts such as Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Z... I need to be on holiday to learn the new layout though.
I think now (2 years or so later) it's between 90-120 depending on how many typos I make.
You aren't really going to be super fast with dvorak but I do notice that my hands don't feel so tweaked.
1) a collection of autohotkey scripts (key remapping, fast toggling for show/hide hidden files, toggle selected text from upper/lowercase and a heap more) 2) sms reminders on google calendar (free!) 3) learning as many kb shortcuts to your software as you can 4) automatic filters and a well thought out label system in gmail 5) sumatra pdf viewer, or any really quick pdf program 6) electric blanket on a timer, makes g…
On #8 - Another option is to paint a full wall in your office with Dry Erase Paint (I used this, it works well: http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=128 )
Use a good social bookmarking service. I use Diigo, there are a few key things it does for me: - Keeps a copy of a page (if it goes off the web, i've still got it) - Lets you tag and keyword search all the content of my bookmarks (Useful when you have a few thousand built up over years) - Lets you highlight/annotate text on a page I actually don't really use the "social" aspects of social bookmarking at all.
Think about ways you can spend a few dollars to save yourself time. By driving to my subway stop and paying to park instead of walking, I save myself over 5 mins each way every day. That comes to over 3 hrs a month I get back--about 40 hrs a year. I get exercise elsewhere and it is a pretty ugly walk anyway, so I don't miss it at all.
I calculate my hourly rate after taxes to put a value on time saved when making such calculations.
Also, if saving 2% at Walmart means much waiting in line and dealing with a lot of junk that ends up having to be returned, shop at Target instead. Spending a little money to avoid suffering is often a better deal than spending a lot having a good time. It all matters.
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You can get to work some quicker way and run instead. Running is much more valuable than walking.
Well, you have to factor in changing out of your running clothes and showering if you're in a "professional" environment. Also I have bad knees that make even the mile I walked to the job I just quit a little difficult. I doubt they will ever heal enough that running is a good idea.
1) 9 - 10 hours sleep 2) reduce multitasking 3) eat like a bird 4) exercise 5) don't commute more than 20mins each way
Quoting an article from Time - "Studies show that people who sleep between 6.5 hr. and 7.5 hr. a night, as they report, live the longest. [...] Sleeping 8.5 hr. might really be a little worse than sleeping 5 hr."
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1812420,00.ht...
