Busy-Bites
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Busy-Bite: Focus on Doing What is Right
‘That’s What Makes Bill [Gates] Very, Very Dangerous’ The Busy-Bite: The focus is on doing what is right, not being right. Changing your mind after being presented with new information […]
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Even our Jokes are Terrifying Windows into the Dark Side of Work
In the second episode of The Busyness Paradox, we tried our hand at satire with a fake ad for a preposterously invasive employee-tracking software service called “HR Tracker.” Seemed preposterous […]
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Busy-Bite: Jeff Bezos’s Final Letter to Shareholders as CEO
If you want to be successful in business (in life, actually), you have to create more than you consume. Your goal should be to create value for everyone you interact […]
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Is Busyness Old News?
Paul and I were holding our weekly meeting regarding the business side of The Busyness Paradox. Believe it or not, we are not just winging this whole thing, unless that’s […]
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The Thing About Email
Today we’re releasing Part 2 of The Email Paradox: Inefficient Efficiency, which continues our discussion of email overload and it’s impact on productivity and personal well-being. A third episode on […]
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Niksen: The value of doing nothing.
by Frank Butler This idea of nothing is derived from the Dutch. The general idea is that you take some time out of your day to intentionally do … nothing. […]
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How I Learned to Love the Lockdown
By Paul Harvey Covid has, obviously, been bad. Nothing that we’ve gained has been worth even one of the lives lost to the disease that’s kept most of us in […]
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Google’s Search Results Have Gotten Worse: My Take
Frank and I don’t do these posts on any sort of schedule (clearly…), we just wait for inspiration to strike. Sometimes it strikes in sort of tangential ways, like when […]
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The need for office space
by Frank Butler The WSJ posted an article about startups not needing office space, especially early on. Certainly has a significant impact on the cash flow and equity needs when […]
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The Problem with Management by Numbers
By Paul Harvey If you aspire to be an effective manager, the Busyness Paradox has good news! It appears that literally anyone can achieve this goal by following six simple […]
