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10 Tips for Keeping a Clean Desk

marcus — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:28:52 +0000

There’s something great about having a clean desk. It makes people feel more comfortable when they’re around you in the office and it makes working easier with fewer distractions. How to do it? LifeClever has 10 tips. As usual, here are the titles, visit LifeClever for the full monty:

Use a system to manage paper
Banish Post-it notes
Trash those printouts
Keep blank file folders and a label maker at your desk
Ritualize your reviews
Throw away pens
Say no to schwag
Take your books home
Eat away from your desk
Limit photo frames on your desk

Just for the record, my desk has a computer, phone, pen container, 1 small stack of paper and a can of mixed nuts.

Top Five Marketing Mistakes for Entrepreneurs

marcus — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:44:49 +0000

WorkHappy (an excellent entrepreneur blog) has this exclusive from Seth Godin to promote his new book Small is the New Big. Here are the summaries. For the full list, see WorkHappy.

Expecting gratitude in exchange for having done something that was hard.
Spending money as a substitute for doing something great.
Not realizing that it’s your company, and your marketing better be as good as everything else.
Listening to other people. If they’re so smart, why aren’t they running your company?
Failure to measure.

7 Habits For Junior Employees

marcus — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:36:45 +0000

The actual list calls this a list for junior designers, however I’d argue that most of these suggestions are useful for anyone starting a new career. Here are they are:

Click any of them to go to LifeClever and read the full post.

10 tips on how to read any book in 7 days (or less)

marcus — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:40:59 +0000

Eric Allam has a great list with a 10 ways to read a book in a week. I won’t quote his list here, but I’ll add my suggestion for a number 11 (which is also in the comments on his blog):

I’d also add listening to audiobooks to this list. I’ve found that if I add audiobooks to my normal reading I listen to at least two additional books every month (usually 3 or 4). I listen to them while mowing the lawn, driving to work, on lunch breaks when I take it alone, while washing dishes, cleaning up, excercising etc. etc. I use Audible.com and an iPod Nano. It’s not always an ideal substitute for a “real” book, but for many books it’s just as good (if not better) to hear rather than read.

Check it out here.

Om Malik’s Top Ten Mac Apps

marcus — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:39:10 +0000

Om Malik lists his top ten Mac apps. Sometime soon we’ll do ours.

Oxymorons

marcus — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:35:30 +0000

The “largest list of oxymorons” ever compiled. The first five are:

5. Dodge Ram
4. Work Party
3. Jumbo Shrimp
2. Healthy Tan
1. Microsoft Works

Ten Best Designed Blogs

marcus — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:27:04 +0000

The ten best designed blogs according to Elliot Back. Definitely some nice looking sites in there. It’s interesting that four of the ten have 3 columns in their layout and two have only one column, making the two column layout a minority.

100 Most Powerful Game Developers

marcus — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:19:23 +0000

The 100 most powerful game developers based on games sold in the United Kingdom 2005. Check out the full article.

List of Rails Resources

marcus — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:16:42 +0000

Here are a bunch of resources to help you learn Ruby on Rails.