Posts Tagged: productivity

The Pomodoro Technique — Barcamp Auckland 5

The Pomodoro Technique is a way of managing your time for improved productivity. At Barcamp Auckland 5 today, Carol Green (@carolgreen) and Noemi Selisker (@thenoemi) gave a useful outline of the process, from a beginner’s point of view — Noemi has been using the technique for a couple of weeks, and Carol is just about to start. Continue reading “The Pomodoro Technique — Barcamp Auckland 5” →

The Cult of Next Manifesto

Bored with what you’re doing now? May I present the next thing:

The Cult of Next Manifesto

  1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and next.
  2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get to the next thing.
  3. Done is not enough.
  4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just pretend you know what you’re doing and go to the next thing.
  5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, go to the next thing.
  6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get to the next thing.
  7. Once you’re done you can go to the next thing.
  8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from the next thing.
  9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Getting to the next thing makes you right.
  10. Failure means you can go to the next thing. So do mistakes.
  11. Destruction means you can go to the next thing.
  12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, you can go to the next thing.
  13. Next!

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