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Command line interlude

August 27, 2010January 5, 2012

I was just going through my feeds, which I read in the OS X Terminal with Canto, and I thought it was interesting just how much time I spend in the terminal, and how I seem to rely more and more on the command line for speed and efficiency. As a schooled designer with a […]

Posted in Babble, Productivity, vim

Cool tool: Opera Notes

April 13, 2010January 5, 2012

Something I didn’t pay much attention to until a few months ago is the Notes functionality built into Opera (desktop). I used to use Notational Velocity or SlipBox, which are both excellent. Since I spend about 80% of my computer time in Vim and Opera, and since Opera is my primary browser (and e-mail client), […]

Posted in browsers, Productivity, WebTagged browsers, notes, opera, snook

The importance of the 80/20 Principle

May 30, 2007January 5, 2012

20% of what you do today will be responsible for 80% of the day’s results. 20% of a company’s clients will be yield 80% of the company’s revenue. I can imagine that almost everyone is familiar with the 80/20 Principle, also known as the Pareto Principle. Pareto was an Italian economist who discovered an economic […]

Posted in Babble, Business, Creativity, Productivity

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