In a world more and more prone to manipulate images and text on screens, it’s sometimes difficult to find office supplies from another era. Unless you’re an architect, you can easily spend a good half hour looking around the office for a ruler. Mitchell Charity has a series of PDFs to print your own rulers. Either… Continue reading Don’t buy another ruler! Print it!
Lifestyle
Lifestyle articles by Daniel Pradilla about work, technology, and the practical side of everyday decisions.
The best Moleskine notebook
If you’re fan of taking notes on paper, you can’t go wrong with a Moleskine What makes this notebook better than the rest? Why not buy the cheapest one at the supermarket or at the nearest office supply store? Because taking notes is also an emotional experience, and this notebook, a classic since the beginning… Continue reading The best Moleskine notebook
How to organize yourself, find time to work and be happy in the process
This article belongs to the telecommuting and geographical independence series. It doesn’t matter what your job is about, the routine is the same every day and it starts early in the morning: emails, news, events, requests and if you use a computer to work, the situation is even worse: Twitter, Facebook and other hundreds of sites that… Continue reading How to organize yourself, find time to work and be happy in the process
4 Tools to organize your life
Very few people manage to establish a fundamentalist separation between their work spaces and their homes. Normally our work follows us home; our shores chase us to work and they both follow us outside. How many times – for instance– have we arrived at the office only to find that the file we worked on… Continue reading 4 Tools to organize your life
When was the last time you did a backup?
Thou shalt back up frequently is one of my commandments. According to a recent study, only 28% of people perform a daily backup. And knowing my friends, that seems encouraging! There’re only two kinds of hard drives: the ones that have failed and the ones that are going to fail. A Google Study (who uses… Continue reading When was the last time you did a backup?