About The Blogger
Internet engineer, turned business exec and developing psychologist Benjamin Ellis is passionate about technology that solves human problems, and humans that solve technology problems. Benjamin blogs about productivity, communication and technology in the context of business.
Too Much Choice – Too Little Happiness
These Things Come in Threes
Three things in two days. First, I loose contact with my phone. Second, my MacBook Pro dies. Then, in a third and final twist, traffic on the blog increased by 2000% (yes, two thousand) and I get locked out of WordPress. Coincidence? Of course. I got a free lesson in [...]
A Time To…
I have been flattening the battery of my iPod listening to the title track from Stevie Wonder’s new album, A Time 2 Love. It is a wonderful song, featuring India.Arie, with potent lyrics about the things that we find time for, and the important things that we don’t. It started me thinking that making time [...]
10 Tips for better Powerpoint
As promised, here are 10 PowerPoint tips:
If you can put it on two slides, rather than one, then do.
Most people put far to much information on a single slide.
If you need notes, put them in the notes section.
That is what it is for. You can then print and use the notes. Don’t force [...]
Still not the death of (really bad) Powerpoint
On Seth’s blog, an interesting link to Pecha Kucha (Seth’s post here). Really Bad Powerpoint, which almost sounds like a phrase that should be trademarked, continues to take over the world. What can be done?
Seth’s Really Bad Powerpoint is a great starting point. I wish it had been a full book! I was just [...]
Moving Mac
A quiet week for me, I am enjoying some downtime. It is good to rest sometimes.
I have finally upgraded my Mac to a MacBrook Pro. The upgrade has given me a chance to clear out my machine and lock down on the apps that help and remove those that just take up space. My aim [...]
A WINning strategy for productivity
I can’t remember where I heard it, it was a long time ago, but someone talked to me about WINning – WIN – What’s Important right Now. Picking the most important thing to do right now, and focusing on it, 100%.
It is a little like Covey’s First Things First habit. The challenge, of course, is [...]
Did you mean to do that?
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
Peter F. Drucker
This is key to avoiding the ‘activity’ or the ‘productivity’ trap. I have met – in real life and virtually – many people who are focussed on getting more and more things done. They read books to [...]
