The Evolving Worker

Do you have a hard time waking up? After reading a couple of painful comments on a post entitled “how do you make sure you wake up?”, I realized that dawn simulators are not as widespread as I thought they...

Do you use RSS or not ? And how ? I’d need to understand what is your use of RSS (including weither you know what RSS is or not!). Would you like to answer this 4 questions survey so I...

This post will tell you why I now use password managers and which tools I’ve settled with. I’m a strong believer in simplicity. Despite this, it took me quite a bunch of time before starting to use password managers. That...

Running out of hard-disk space can cause troubles ranging from minor slow down to irreversible data loss when an application hangs. In this article I present a couple of tools to cope with this situation and try to prevent it....

I wrote a while back about common use cases for mind-mapping. In this article I present a less common use: mind-maps can be used to create data used by database driven web applications or any other software. Two years ago,...

This article is a follow-up of Tina’s “How to delete email addiction” post. Addiction starts when “someone suffers from his/her behaviour, is willing to stop it, but cannot do so without help”. I believe this is an interesting definition of...

In this post I’ll outline some situations where mind mapping was useful to me – I hope it will serve you well. Before starting I must say that getting used to mind mapping brought me very positive things, sharpened both...

There are many collaborative tools available on the internet – including complicated ones. While discussing with friends the other day, I realised that some of the tools I use on a regular basis were unknown to them and that they...

Do you find yourself saying “John is not here today, we’ll have to wait for him to come back from his holidays because no one else knows how to do this” ? Do you happen to think “I did this...

In this post I’ll outline two techniques to track your feelings and what you have achieved at the end of the day. Feelings are often overlooked by most of us – sometimes because we have learned that listening to them...

Mind mapping is a technique I find very valuable to use on a daily basis at work for a variety of purposes. I first heard about it roughly one year and a half ago, through a friend of mine (thank...