Monthly Archives: May 2006

Optimize your life #6 – The daily commute and audio books

In my last article, I talked about what kind of tasks we can successfully combine together to save time.  This article discusses one specific way to multitask that I find useful, which is listening to audio books while driving to … Continue reading

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Optimize your life #5 – Successful multitasking

As I’ve mentioned before, it’s difficult for us, as mere human beings, to maintain our effectiveness when we try to switch rapidly between multiple tasks.  It’s nothing to be ashamed of…it’s just how the species is wired.  We’re not computers, … Continue reading

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A short follow up to "Movies and the wisdom of crowds"

FYI, I’m working on the fifth installment of Optimize your life.  Look for that this week. The latest results for the Da Vinci Code show it handily beating expectations…estimates now show it tracking at 77 million, when estimates had been … Continue reading

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Movies, the wisdom of crowds, and successful products

I visit both Box Office Mojo and Box Office Guru pretty regularly to see what kind of business new movies are doing.  I’ve noticed something interesting about the movies that have been released over the past month that I thought … Continue reading

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