Saturday, January 02, 2010

Productivity Notes

As I sit here procrastinating on a Saturday night at the beginning of a new year, I figure it'd be appropriate to dump the past links on productivity, psychology and inspiration I've read and found interesting in the last few months:

Most of us have a finite supply of willpower (eurekalert.org)
Lifehacker Readers' Favorite Pens (lifehacker.com)
Jonah Lehrer: What you do affects others in your social network (scienceblogs.com/cortex)
Jonah Lehrer: How low blood suger affects decision making (scienceblogs.com/cortex)
The relationship between wealth and fat: both cause and effect (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
The Einstein Principle: Accomplish More By Doing Less (calnewport.com)
Listening to Your Pulse (scienceblogs.com/cortex)
Working After Retirement Boosts Health? (futurepundit.com)
The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (pmarca-archive.posterous.com)
Learn any language in 3 months (fourhourworkweek.com)
The Personality Paradox (scienceblogs.com/cortex)
Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart (newscientist.com)
80 Min Exercise Per Week Prevents Visceral Weight Gain (futurepundit.com)
Does being sad, or complaining, make you smarter? (marginalrevolution.com)
Jonah Lehrer: Sleep (scienceblogs.com/cortex)
Want to think logically? Trust your emotions (psychologytoday.com)
Rejection massively reduces IQ (newscientist.com)
How to Follow Through: The Emerging Science of Self-Control (rolfnelson.com)
The Organization Myth (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Avoiding Confirmation Bias (wsj.com)
Depression as deadly as smoking, but anxiety may be good for you (eurekalert.org)
Fixed-Schedule Productivity: How I Accomplish a Large Amount of Work in a Small Number of Work Hours (calnewport.com)
Spinning wheels and recovering from burnout (inhumanable.com)
Loneliness is transmittable, researchers say (washingtonpost.com)
How to achieve greater productivity of teams (news.ycombinator.com)
Eight Tips to Know If You're Being Boring (psychologytoday.com)
Dogs Better than Human Walking Companions (futurepundit.com)
Be Lucky - it's an easy skill to learn (telegraph.co.uk)
Willpower (scienceblogs.com/cortex)
Sex and shopping - it's a guy thing (newscientist.com)

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