#productivity
Iceland ran the world's largest trial of a shorter work week. The results will (not) shock you. Why aren't we doing this already?
From 2015 to 2019, Iceland ran the world's largest trial of a shorter working week. An analysis of the results was finally published this week, and surprise! Everyone was happier, healthier, and more productive. Please pretend to be surprised.
The report was jointly prepared by the Association for Sustainability and Democracy (Alda) in Iceland and UK think tank Autonomy, who note that Iceland's experiment could be used as a blueprint for future trials around the world.
This is far from the first time the benefits of a shorter work week have made themselves known. When Microsoft Japan trialed a four-day work week in 2019, productivity increased by almost 40 percent. New Zealand firm Perpetual Guardian permanently switched to a four-day work week in 2018 after their own trial saw productivity increase 20 percent. Companies around the world have tried shorter work weeks again and again, continually confirming the International Labour Organisation's 2018 report that shorter work hours typically produce happier, more productive workers.
See Iceland ran the world's largest trial of a shorter work week. The results will (not) shock you.
#4dayworkweek #work #iceland #productivity
Why aren't we doing this already?
# 9. Answer doubts
https://devtips.in/answer-doubts
#productivity #team-building #work #software #coding #programming
In what seems to be 2016's ongoing attempt to make my computing habits look like they did ten years ago, I just created a text file called todo.txt without really thinking about it.*
*Mind you, the fact that I frictionlessly created the file on my phone and synced it to the cloud are significant improvements over my past attempts to keep things simple.
Tabbed browsing as a band-aid over poor UI, and the Tabs Outliner Extension for Chrome*
I posted a long rant on a number of browser frustrations yesterday over at the dreddit, result of which is I may have found a solution to many frustrations (below). The rant: http://redd.it/256lxu
Among the topics explored:
There are emerging roles for the browser which likely should be split: a documents management and reading client, an applications platform, a commerce client, and (mostly addressed through existing tools) multimedia access. As is often the case (and has happened with browsers already), I suspect that the new paradigm may emerge not by evolution of existing tools but by the emergence of new ones.
Tabbed browsing is a crutch used to provide for state management which fails miserably due to the memory overhead of keeping tabs actively open in memory, as well as failing to provide sufficient context.
The joys of Readability (or similar site simplification tools). The very sorry state of Web styling: more often than not, site styling is a net detriment to readability and utility, not a benefit.
A slew of other feature requests.
From a related discussion on Hacker News I was pointed at something which, on an hours or so's use, looks like it may actually address numerous of my concerns: Chrome's Tab Outliner Extension
I'm still evaluating it, and it's not quite the solution I was looking for, but this could well be the most revolutionary change to browsing I've seen since tabs first appeared (Firefox's Vimperator being the other contestant).
#browser #extensions #productivity #dreddit #chrome #firefox #readability
"Creativity is not a Team Sport": Improvides interviews Prof Vincent Walsh on neuroscience of creativity
A 20-minute video interview on the topic of creativity: "Prof Vincent Walsh on neuroscience of creativity".
The title quote comes about 12 minutes in, discussing brainstorming and what a poor tool it is for creativity and coming up with solutions:
[There's] a very long and well-established literature in psychology that getting groups of people together is no way to come up with ideas. Creativity is not a team sport. What you're looking for is somebody's individual, intellectual trunk to make new connections and come up with something new....
Continued at the dreddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/21qgiv/creativity_is_not_a_team_sport_improvides/
#creativity #problemsolving #productivity #neuroscience #collapse
