Bottles and airplanes

3 things to learn and do about emotions at work (and at personal productivity also) — There is this new trend in leadership and management that finally talks about emotions at work. You may have heard that a good leader or executive is the one who can overcome stress, anger, and difficult social interactions in the office. The emotional resilient leader can be productive in the…

After the experience, the sharing — You have the right age to be wise. Or you think you know enough on a topic to share your wisdom about it. Perhaps, at the end of a big project, long relationship, school years, long trip, you want to keep your deepest learnings in place. Maybe, you want to…

Can you hear the music? Can you hear the muses? — The sound of paper Writing by hand on paper is the more subtle sound of writing. I love the soft sound of the pen scratching the page in my notebook as well as the sound of the cap of the pen when opening it; or the snap when pushing in, if it’s a click…

Language makes the difference — To-do lists are one of the most common power and popular uses for writing, particularly for not-taking. There are different methods, systems, apps, services… And what about levels of structure? From the simple to-do list on a post-it or a napkin, to very complex systems with hierarchies, folders, tags, colors…

I’m going to tell you something contra intuitive. You might have experienced the need to write a comment or reply to an article that had resonated to you in some way. Here on Medium, in a blog, or a social network. Maybe you liked the content a lot, you might…

How to lock in your most important and valuable time boxes — You may already know and even apply timeblocking to manage time, tasks, and projects. Some call it timeboxing. I like the last because it let me imaging I put time in a box. My most valuable time. Let me share to you an extra ingredient to make it better by…

You need more playspaces and fewer workspaces — If a productivity framework doesn’t tell you enough about unproductivity, take for granted that the framework is not going to work at the end of the day. Let’s be clear about this. You can’t be productive all the time. No way. In fact, you need to manage your unproductive time…

Not all holes are rabbit holes — It was a clear and warm day… I was expecting to have a productive day. I had with me my to-do list, my coffee, my computer, the Wi-Fi was working well, my last-generation-app-to-manage-anything was open on my screen… But it didn’t happen. The day ended and my to-do list was identical to yesterday. Wait. I had an…

Equations are boring — Equations “This is that” is the more basic statement we can do. It’s an equation. Naming and defining are forms of equations. A baby handles the old spoon and thinks, “This is a spoon”. No surprise there. Or not surprise about the spoon at least. Awe about the capacity to recognize…