Tag: Busy

The Art of Looking Busy When You Have Nothing to Do at Work

You show up to work, settle in at your desk, open your email and…there’s nothing urgent demanding your attention. No new tasks or projects on your plate. Your calendar looks wide open. Uh oh. Now what? Cue the panic as you frantically scroll through old emails and tidy up...

Busy Is The New Stupid

Any idiot can be busy today. It actually takes more sophisticated and smart thinking to do less, than to be busy. Having spent many years as an entrepreneur building businesses that generate several hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit a year, I’ve found that being busy is the en...

The Art of Looking Busy When You Have Nothing to Do at Work

We’ve all been there before. You show up to work, settle in at your desk, open your email and…there’s nothing urgent demanding your attention. No new tasks or projects on your plate. Your calendar looks wide open. Uh oh. Now what? Cue the panic as you frantically...

The Art of Looking Busy When You Have Nothing to Do at Work

We’ve all been there before. You show up to work, settle in at your desk, open your email and…there’s nothing urgent demanding your attention. No new tasks or projects on your plate. Your calendar looks wide open. Uh oh. Now what? Cue the panic as you frantically...

From Busy to Productive

Improving workplace meetings is necessary, especially with the current remote work trend. Meetings are meant to share information, but Software Engineers’ abstract work makes it difficult. Often, discussions lead to no progress, and adding more people to the group doesn’t help. It’...

The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse

Climate change will cause agricultural failure and subsequent collapse of hyperfragile modern civilization, likely within 10–15 years. By 2050 total human population will likely be under 2 billion. Humans, along with most other animals, will go extinct before the end of this century. These imp...