work hacks - productivity hacks to optimize your time & maximize results
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Why Hack Work?With our busy schedules, constant interruptions and short deadlines, we need all the tips and tricks to allow us to focus on the activities that maximizes the most and best output possible.
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Remember 80/20 RulePareto’s Principle states that roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes or 80% of the value will come from 20% of the effort. We need to leverage this heuristic into our routines.
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Working HacksProductivity hacks encompasses many different areas.
Tools
Automation
Resourcing
Heuristic
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IMAGES OVER TEXT
Humans can take in visual information faster than textual information.Findings show that the human brain can interpret images that the eye sees in just 13 milliseconds
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VIDEO STORYBOARDING
Taking a video is much richer than a single image with a series of images that work as a storyboard.
Findings show that the human brain can interpret images that the eye sees in just 13 milliseconds
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Don’t reinvent the wheel. Utilize existing libraries, frameworks and templates to get started quickly on prototyping a product or service.
USING FRAMEWORKS
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Search and remix the best pieces of images, photos, graphics, code snippets and content for developing concepts, models and planning materials.
CUT & PASTE - REMIX
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DRAFT OUTLINES
When writing internal or external documentation, start with outlines versus paragraphs. Outlines provide a quick step-by-step roadmap that is easier to read than long format content.
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Avoid repetitive tasks by using automation applications, tools or scripts that can run continuously. This will shave off time doing routine tasks manually.
ENLIST THE ROBOTS
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Allot time to run your high priority tasks on a set time limit with no interruptions instead of allowing yourself to devote long hours on one problem with periodic interruptions.
FOCUSED SPRINTS
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When you cannot rely on automation to do batch jobs and routine tasks need a human intervention, you can enlist the crowd workforce (e.g. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) to help you with those assignments. This allows you to invest your time on high value targets.
REINFORCEMENTS
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Using sticky notes creatively to build adaptable diagrams, flow charts and maps to help you plan your projects. It is often faster to move a note physically than opening a software diagramming app.
USE STICKIES
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With the digital world full of communication channels and apps, we forget about the human space. Email and messaging doesn’t always lead to clearer answers. Personal face time often lead to understanding and quality answers.
FACE TIME
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1. Pictures & Images 2. Video 3. Frameworks 4. Cut and Paste, Remix 5. Focused Work Sprints 6. Use Outlines 7. Automate 8. Crowdsource 9. Stickies
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