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Serious information used to be relayed in words, graphs and charts - pictures were just pretty window dressing. That's all changing, says David McCandless.

Have you ever started a day with some great ideas of everything you want to accomplish, but suddenly it is 6pm and you have nothing to show for your day? While it is probably impossible to keep this from ever happening, we can minimize it by doing something very simple: Do something important first...

Like many of you, email and social network messages have threatened to overwhelm me in recent years. Over time, I’ve developed a workflow and schedule that helps to keep me a bit saner. This workflow involves a number of tools and methods...

As developers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More APIs, more documentation, more patterns, more layers of abstraction. Now Twitter and Facebook compete with Email and Texts ...

Learn extremely detailed tactics from Cal Newport, an MIT post-doc, on how he's written 3 books, a blog with over 50,000 readers/month, a half-dozen peer reviewed papers -- and still stops working at 5:30pm every day.

If you're like most people, email is where much of your work lands in your personal and professional life. What used to happen in a face-to-face ...

Insight and resources to help people cope with Information Overload and Email Overload, from Nathan Zeldes

A review of three systems that claim to help users get organized and increase their productivity including Getting Things Done, The Pomodoro Technique and FranklinCovey's Focus.

I deal with a huge amount of e-mail every day…usually 300-400 messages. A lot of those are spam, and many of them are not messages that require my personal attention, but I still manage to get my inbox to zero about once a week.

According to our latest research Information Overload costs the U.S. economy a minimum of $900 billion per year in lowered employee productivity and reduced innovation. Despite its heft, this is a fairly ...

Considering how useful – revolutionary, even – email is as a communication tool, it can also be an incredible drain on productivity. If you’re

A friend in a US Hi-tech company once commented to me that all this business communication that is manifesting itself as email overload is nothing new: we also had this in the days before email, even if it used paper instead of computer screens.

The massive wave of information available today on the Internet is overwhelming and it's killing productivity. Now that wave is extending into real-time communications. The MHM blog will track and filter ...