Archive for April, 2008

You, Inc., or Reasons to Think of Yourself as a Company

photo credit: Lawl Many businesses have a number of advantages over individuals: strong brands, an expectation they’ll invest, a marketing department, market power and more. You can tap some of those advantages by thinking of yourself as a company: there’s you, and then there’s You, Inc. Why would you want to do this? I often [...]

Frugality and Ethical Living

photo credit: tricky ™ Two lifestyle choices I’m trying to pursue at present are frugality and ethical living. I want to live economically, retaining as much of my money as possible to make it work for me. I’m also trying to live more ethically, principally by reducing my impact on the environment (more on that [...]

Great so I’m an early riser, but my partner isn’t…

photo credit: JF Sebastian The strapline here at pantsonfaster.com is “productivity in the real world”. That’s because some of the productivity advice I see around the place is fine in theory, but not so easy in practice. In this post I’m going to take a simple example. I’ve read plenty of posts about why any [...]

Guest Post Published at PickTheBrain

photo credit: Extra Ketchup I’m excited to announce that major productivity blog PickTheBrain.com has published a guest post I wrote that I hope you’ll like: Productivity in a Hostile Environment Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts on their site.