Want to have better conversations? ClickUp have recently released ClickUp Chat so you can keep projects and chat in one place. Click here to check it out How Ancient Wisdom Can Transform Modern Conversations A few years ago, a colleague of mine lost control of his temper and punched another. It was like a scene from The Office (the UK one of course). The punch was pretty crap but the biggest damage was to relationships and trust across the team. That thought came back to me recently while I...
24 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader 👋 Let's say someone shares an article with you or you find something with a headline that really grabs you. You want to read it now but you’re busy trying to run a business here! You don’t have time so you save it to your read-it-later app. And never look at it again… Here’s why read-it-later apps didn’t work for me and the cost-free solution I’ve found instead. Omnivore’s Shutdown If you haven’t heard, Omnivore recently shut down. It was a lot of peoples favourite read-it-later...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader 👋 New: Listen to this email I’m at my day job building out a ClickUp dashboard to try and make sense of all the tasks, deadlines, team progress. And then I stumble upon this card, and it’s called the Who’s Behind card. This card shows “Inbox unread notifications” and “Total overdue tasks” for each user in the workspace. When I went and had a look at it and actually saw the data, it was kind of shocking. Out of the 18 people in the workspace in my day job, 6 of them (an entire...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader 👋 Hope you're having an amazing Sunday! New! Listen to this newsletter here: https://voicenotes.com/s/rGXcUq Switching apps is making you less productive. Every few months there's a shiny new app and it promises to make your life easier. You get excited, you sign up, you start using it. But then another app comes along. It catches your eye, so you switch again ♾️ And this cycle keeps on repeating, and each switch feels like progress, but in reality it's just, it's slowing you down....
4 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader 👋 Hope you're having an amazing Sunday! I’m lucky to live close enough to London that I can get there and back again in an afternoon. My wife has wanted to visit the Tate Modern in the city for a long time. What better time to go than for her birthday? From the outside, the Tate Modern is an ugly block of a building. But when you’re inside, you appreciate the space straight away. The 30 degree heat was left behind as we walked through the entrance hall. How often do you look back at...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader 👋 Thanks for joining me on this productivity newsletter venture. Hope you're having an amazing Sunday! This email is also a post on X. Let's connect on there if we haven't already. The lady behind the till asked if I'd fallen into a cactus 🌵 I don’t take much care of my garden and you’ll quite often find the grass up to your knees. But there aren’t any cactuses growing there. It’s football season in the UK. My neighbour had kicked their ball over my fence and it rolled behind my...
6 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader 👋 Hope you're having an amazing Sunday! I'm trying harder to find my "voice" with this newsletter. Part of that is writing more in the style of how I chat to people on 𝕏. The other part is including a handwritten version of this newsletter. If you'd like to download the handwritten PDF with some extra notes, you can get it here: AI SOPs.pdf Now, onto the newsletter! How I’m using AI to write SOPs You’re tasked with upgrading servers at work, but you’re no expert. You dive in...
7 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader 👋 Thanks for joining me on this productivity newsletter venture. Hope you're having an amazing Sunday! It started like any other typical day. A late start, fussy toddler, the dog barking the house down, and my daily stand-up meeting going on in the background. And just when you think you’re on top of it all and about to leave the house to go to nursery, the dog knocks a full glass of water on to the floor. The importance of routine I need one. I’m late to nearly everything if it’s...
7 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader đź‘‹ Thanks for joining me on this productivity newsletter venture. Hope you're having an amazing Sunday! If you've been subscribed to this newsletter for a while, you've probably seen me talk about calendar apps. You're spoilt for choice with calendar apps on the Mac and iPhone. But what about Windows? Maybe even Linux if you're extra nerdy? There are apps out there but they're always ugly and clunky. It's 2024, I want beautiful and seamless apps! And I think I've finally found one....
8 months ago • 2 min read