Stephan Miller

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Doing one thing at a time. It’s a nice concept and may seem easy, but I guess it depends on how you handle things. I know it works. I know the sense of accomplishment that comes with actually finishing [...]

It is good to live with someone you trust to tell you that you are being stupid. Of course, part of the deal is actually listening when that person says you are.
I am not good as hearing that I am wrong. I do not take it well. In fact, it usually is fuel for me [...]

I have been so wrapped up lately trying to replace desktop software with web apps that I haven’t looked into desktop feed readers for a long time. I used Firefox live marks until I realized that 700 feeds will slow down the browsing experience.
After that I went to Google Reader and have kept my [...]

I never can tell when an idea is going to occur to me. One time it’s while I’m driving to work. The next, while I am mowing the lawn. But I can almost guarantee it will happen when I least expect it.
So I just started expecting it all the time and carrying a notebook along [...]

Time is money. It may be something we all agree on, but what does it really mean.
Fixed costs are nice. One of my fixed costs is hosting. When I make $4000 in a month, my hosting is $125. If I triple that, it will still cost me the same and the ROI triples.
On the other [...]

Okay, I broke my rule about always have at least two services to compare when I decide to say something is the next best thing since sliced bread. Because I have to say, why didn’t someone think of this earlier.
I spent about a half an hour this Sunday training Vista to transcribe my voice. It [...]

Traveling Detail Light
When studying a new technology, I plunge in headfirst. I have read a lot of books and from experience, despite what I learned from books, I still had to have a picture of what I was trying to learn on my own.
Up to that point, I was basically following directions, hoping that the [...]

Habits are hard to break. Habits are hard to create. Any productivity book I have read that doesn’t state those two points clearly goes in one ear and out the other. I liked Zen to Done because it’s simplicity states that. Go ahead, give 450 rules and I might as well not start.
But even in [...]

 
Repeating Myself
Now let’s see if I can write this post without repeating myself. Or I will have to start calling my blog 101 ways to look at productivity. But I guess that’s the way it goes. If I looked at the concept of productivity I held a few months ago I would have to laugh. [...]

This weekend I got off my butt and went down a list of things I wanted to get done.

I built a list of blogs using the CommentLuv plugin over at my site Digital Product Review. I am just getting the final tweaks on the theme done and am ready to start getting a little more [...]