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Vice Pres. JD Vance wanted to meet the Pope, but Pope Francis wisely decided that a meeting with Vance would be a waste of time. After apparently concluding that Vance is not a decent human being and is not open to reason, the Pope decided to do something more productive, and almost anything would be more productive than meeting with JD Vance.
#religion #TimeManagement #politics

My life is a constant tension between

a. Wanting to be All The Prepared, meet All The #Deadlines, make Everyone Happy, Time All The Management

b. Wanting to # live my life, not #grind it away; to #create, #explore, #love my loved ones; to minimize the % of my life involving #email; to not beat my head against things I don't enjoy

Thus, my life looks like a rolling disaster, sometimes, to some kinds of people.

📝 Manually naming work packages can lead to inconsistencies and errors.

With one of our next releases, OpenProject will allow you to #automatically generate work package subjects — ensuring accuracy and saving time. 🤩

Using customizable patterns, subjects will be generated based on key attributes you define as an admin.

Learn how this feature helps keep teams organized and workflows aligned:
👉openproject.org/blog/automatic

Marcin ‘mbork’ Borkowski about his version of #pomodoro which he calls #tomato: mbork.pl/2025-02-01_ketchup.el

Well, it sounds to me that the pomodoro method is not working for him for the same reasons it was not working for me - although I only tried for a brief period of time.

Marcin found some interesting variant. I would have declared this method non-functional for me instead. 😈

mbork.plMarcin Borkowski: 2025-02-01 ketchup.el

The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit: 25 Productivity Tools for Adults with ADHD and Chronically Busy People by Risa Williams, 2022

Written by a clinical therapist and author of The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit, this book focuses on practical methods and strategies, including creative worksheets and easy to use techniques, to help you find your motivation, achieve your goals and feel less stressed about organizing your time.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#TimeManagement

I'm so tired of working with people that just take on more and more stuff in their lives than they're really capable of doing in a quality way and just run themselves ragged, and thus do a mediocre job of pretty much all of it, watching them hanging on the edge of a cliff all the time and having zero time for actually collaborating in a meaningful way.

Sadly I think this is at least partly because a lot of people are driven to this kind of desperate flailing by the necessities of a precarious life under modern neoliberal capitalism. But a big part is also just I think some kind of psychological feature of people's minds these days, perhaps related to the loss of attention and focus due to screens and social media and shit. Flitting from one thing to another, never having the courage (or self-awareness) to admit there are limits and say no to any of it, hence biting off way more than they can chew.

It's just sad.

Productivity insight for today:

If 40% of your working day is taken up with meetings, you can't do as many todo items as you can on a day you have no meetings.

Bonus insight:

It's likely that you'll have more todo items by the end of each meeting, meaning that your total todo item count will increase, and this is not some kind of personality flaw or indication of laziness.

Managing project data manually is frustrating and time-consuming? You need a way to stay organized without extra effort! 💡 This is where #macros are a game-changer.

If you're an OpenProject user and don’t use macros yet, no worries – they’re easy to use once you get the hang of them. 🤓 And so helpful!

📖 Read our blog to learn how macros in OpenProject can save you time and nerves: openproject.org/blog/how-to-us