The Korean Chronicles: Ibalsso
I’ve been in South Korea for the last few weeks, on a project for my job. Even though it’s been a business trip, and mostly consisting of work, I’ve had some good experiences/memories that I want to start sharing before they’re lost forever.
The first thing that pops into my mind is a couple of weekends ago, when I ventured out in pursuit of a haircut. Read the rest of this entry »
Squeeze Every Last Drop
I got a good laugh out of myself this morning. I sat at my computer to begin work on an iPhone game that I’m co-developing. I became in thought about how there’s not enough time in the day to do all of the things that I want to do. After about 5 minutes in my spaceship of daydreams, I landed back on earth to find myself reading random articles on the internet instead of performing the task that I had sat down to do.
Conundrum: How can I complain about the lack of time that I have when I waste so much of it? I’d bet that I spend about 5-10 minutes out of every hour similarly lost in thought or distracted in some other manner. During any period of work hours, that’s almost 20% of my productivity out of the window. Which brings me to the challenge that I presented to myself this morning, and now to you: strive to squeeze every last drop of time out of your work day. Time is too valuable of a commodity to waste. Here are a couple of suggestions on how to maximize your time.