Fooling myself to work

#1

Post by jirinovotny » Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

Re: Fooling myself to work

#2

Post by HedgeMage » Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 3:02 PM UTC

Linking once to something you use or something you made that you are proud of is awesome. Getting that spammy about it caused me not to finish the post.

Re: Fooling myself to work

#3

Post by jirinovotny » Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 3:08 PM UTC

HedgeMage wrote: post #2

Linking once to something you use or something you made that you are proud of is awesome. Getting that spammy about it caused me not to finish the post.

Thanks for the advice! I've removed the extra links. For some reason, it has never occurred to me.

Re: Fooling myself to work

#4

Post by mrleinad » Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 3:08 PM UTC

Can't fool myself. I'm too smart.

Re: Fooling myself to work

#5

Post by forensic » Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 3:12 PM UTC

I actually like your advice but it's such an obvious sales pitch for your software.

Your ulterior motives make me nauseous.

P.S. I would probably try your software if it wasn't stuck in windows land. Why not make a WebApp?

Re: Fooling myself to work

#6

Post by jirinovotny » Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 3:16 PM UTC

forensic wrote: post #5

I actually like your advice but it's such an obvious sales pitch for your software. Your ulterior motives make me nauseous. P.S. I would probably try your software if it wasn't stuck in windows land. Why not make a WebApp?

Thanks. If I didn't use it, I wouldn't mention it.

Well, Windows land is our niche. Once we get the online synchronization and a companion web-app (with support for mobile devices) going, we will have kinda unique product combo.

Re: Fooling myself to work

#7

Post by zdw » Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 4:06 PM UTC

forensic wrote: post #5

I actually like your advice but it's such an obvious sales pitch for your software. Your ulterior motives make me nauseous. P.S. I would probably try your software if it wasn't stuck in windows land. Why not make a WebApp?

Honestly, I think the list is quite good - It's not like any of the suggestions couldn't carry over into OmniFocus or Org-Mode, and most of them are of the "life hack" variety that aren't tech focused.

Re: Fooling myself to work

#8

Post by bitwize » Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 4:26 PM UTC

Pretend you are grinding for gold and experience?

Re: Fooling myself to work

#9

Post by jirinovotny » Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 4:34 PM UTC

bitwize wrote: post #8

Pretend you are grinding for gold and experience?

or rather stop pretending you are not (:

Re: Fooling myself to work

#10

Post by gohat » Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 4:43 PM UTC

This is fairly blatant self promotion. That said, these are really good ideas.

Decomposing a task into what needs to be done to do it is really effective.