No man’s land

Tijs Vrolix made an inspiring presentation for Zoocamp Antwerp 2009.
He talked about singletasking, the next generation multitasking “lifehack” (longer lasting, better formula).
I guess we all know this … but most of us first need to see it on screen before acting upon!

You can watch his presentation on Slideshow or click the slide below.
(the next slide fits my attitude 200%, pointing out both my biggest energy drain and biggest motivator)

For business or pleasure, more than ever people tend to live their live on the go. Whether you are a mobile warrior or you don’t like to be in the same place for long, the world is your playground. Using notebooks, PDA’s and mobile phones it has become easy to live your life and run your business almost everywhere.

For those of you who need to print documents while being mobile, this can be rather difficult. Getting your notebook connected to a local network often comes with security regulations that keep you from printing that financial report. Even when you get yourself connected to a network, connecting the printer and printing the document can be a hard task. You could off course carry your own printer with you … but why should you?

The Xerox Mobile Express Driver is ideal for people who travel or work in multiple locations. It largely eliminates the need to download individual printer drivers for each product to which you print. Instead, download a single universal printer driver to your PC and print to virtually any PostScript device on your network, even to those made by other manufacturers.

You can find more details and download the Mobile Express Driver on the Xerox website

As a long-time personal fan of David Allen’s GTD method, I have to say Merlin Mann does a great job with promoting GTD at 43Folders.com. It’s a blog I follow for some years now and for those of you who don’t know it yet, check it out!

Terminologies like “personal productivity”, “time management” and “life hacking” sound very sexy these days. Time is a valuable recourse for all of us, you can only waste it once since every minute in your life is irreplaceable.

One of Merlin Mann’s biggest resources is the “Inbox Zero” project. Using GTD and other techniques, Merlin gives you a massive amount of tips on how to keep up with your mailbox. If you happen to get around 5 messages in your mailbox per day, feel lucky. Most people get more, much more.

Whether it is right now or be it the next time you have 58 free minutes in your life, the next presentation is for you. If you can’t find the time but suffer with your e-mails daily, think of it as the best investment you can make in 2008. Read more

Ever wondered how others made a screenshot of their iPhone screen? I found the answer trough a post on 43folders:

Click the Home button and the top (Power) button at the same time to capture a PNG of the current screen to the Photo Viewer (grabbable later via iPhoto)

Merlin Mann himself found the tip trough a Twitter post of Jason Snell.

Freelance Community FreelanceSwitch has a nice article about how to optimize your networking energy. The article itself was written by Jonathan Fields, who’s weblog can be found here.

… either be transparent about your motives or move on. Nobody likes to be used.

Het boek “The 4-Hour Workweek” van Tim Ferriss is een absolute aanrader, en vanaf nu ook beschikbaar in het Nederlands volgens zijn weblog.