Tag: Minute

It turns out that beating procrastination has everything to do with managing our feelings and little with managing our time. I used to think time-blocking tasks in google calendar was the missing piece to not procrastinate. But time management skills don’t address the core issue — tas...

You don’t lack time. You just waste most of it on useless busyness. Sooner or later, you’re going to have to accept this. An average user spends two and a half hours daily on social media in 2022. As of 2020, Netflix users watched an average of 3.2 hours of vide...

Choose the Right Topic — You have unique experience and industry expertise and this is why they have chosen your talk. But there’s no way you can cover your entire scope in 45 minutes. Choose one topic within your many possibilities — something not too broad, somethi...

Every new manager learns this rule: Meet with your direct reports, one-on-one, every week or so. Every new manager also soon encounters this truth: These meetings can often feel meandering or awkward, and are easy to skip when everyone gets busy. Similarly, outside of work, it’s easy to go ...

We’ve looked at Maine’s population distribution and density in previous posts, but how about New Hampshire and Vermont? First take a look at the following chart. In all three cases the biggest metropolitan area in each state has between 30% and 40% of the state’s population. Not...

Newark (13,000 people per square mile) and Paterson (19,000) both have dense populations although they are not among the top five in the state. Both cities substantially gained population between 2010 and 2020, growing at a rate faster than New Jersey as a whole. Were it not for New York, a mere ...

In retirement, I have more time for pastimes. I just played ten chess games. It took slightly more than an hour to play them all. It was five-minute chess online. When I hit the play button for a five-minute game, the computer matches me with someone of my skill level somewhere in the world. I...

What is the relevance of a walkable city as rents soar? At what point is it too much to pay for, to be able to walk wherever you need to go? I remember living so close to the downtown area when I first moved to this city that I could walk to the boutique grocery. I could choose from three small g...

Earlier this year, American right-wing media circulated one of the most random conspiracies of recent memory: the 15-minute city. As someone in a field adjacent to urban planning, I’ve known of the concept of 15-minute cities for a while. The phrase was first coined by urbanist Carlos ...

What is the relevance of a walkable city as rents soar? At what point is it too much to pay for, to be able to walk wherever you need to go? I remember living so close to the downtown area when I first moved to this city that I could walk to the boutique grocery. I could choose from three small g...