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Every time a new research study around personal productivity and office culture appears, we dutifully post the "proof" that information overload, email distractions, and multitasking are keeping you...

Recently one of my acquaintance died of a heart attack. He was an independent IT consultant and worked more than 18 hours daily. Though, he did make a lot of money but died while he was still 32. This is not something which is new these days, the reasons and diagnosis of such an heart attack are beyond the scope of this post. However, what i do wish to write about in this post are some of the tips and tricks which i have learnt over the years working with time critical business sensitive Information.

Fighting Information Overload

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Running a web site that pumps out almost 20 posts a day about how to be more productive, we're already aware of the irony of technology that tries to fix the problems that technology presents. The...

Philipp Lenssen, who's normally blogging about Google products and developments, sent a single question to workers at some of the country's top tech firms on how they deal with all the email, feeds,...

Blogger Steve Rubel discusses his methods for mitigating the Attention Crash caused by modern information overload while remaining well-informed. In the midst of all the demands new technology and...

Technologist Alexander van Elsas says that the problems a lot of new services and web applications solve are specific to a certain kind of super-techie user. He writes: How many people do you know...

Blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick offers seven tips for making the most of your RSS reader, including a few unconventional ideas about feed volume. Kirkpatrick writes: I'm a big believer in subscribing...

Best-selling author Tim Ferriss offers digital minimalism tips to reduce the amount of time you spend in your email inbox. Investment bankers aren't known for their impulse control. Several global...