This entry is part of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy“The GoldenEye was a fictional electro-magnetic orbital weapon developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.” [GoldenEye (weapon) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom] bit.ly/36rz6sF You don’t like sex or video-games quite as much as you think you do.These activities are not that intrinsically…
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How Zombie Gunship Taught Me All I Need to Know To Make My Real Life Awesome (And So Can You!): Gamifying Real Life For Fun and Profit and (Almost) For Free Using the Awesome New Technique of Randomized Timeboxing
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 1 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy“In her study of slot machine gambling in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Schüll argues that Americans face too many choices…enough to give a sense of overload…To escape, gamblers flee to a machine zone where the goal is not to win but to be. Gambling…
OMG: A Public Service Announcement from Captain Obvious
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 2 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy Finally started using Siri to make entropy bombs and it is the bomb diggity. It is the bomb of all diggities. It is the giggedy of diggities. Especially when you need to keep your hands free, like when you’re doing this: [Amazon.co.jp: トイレ掃除:…
All I Ever Needed to Know in Life, I Learned from Cloud Storage
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 3 of 26 in the series Timeboxing TrilogyDropbox is lazy. In several ways. It has to be in order to get anything meaningful done. It avoids busywork like eye-contact with a panhandler. If it can avoid uploading a file, it will. If it can use LAN transfer instead of burdening the…
More Timeboxing Insights: Ramp Scaling and Polar Switching
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 4 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy“You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and…
Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 1: What Is Timeboxing, Why Does It Work, And Why Should You Care?
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 5 of 26 in the series Timeboxing TrilogyThis is the first post in a multi-part series on timeboxing. I’m expecting the series to run for about 3 parts, plus maybe 1 or 2 extra posts to answer any questions that come up along the way. This first article is just a…