As Ridiculously Efficient readers know, each quarter I choose one area of my work or personal life to reinvent. For Q2 2018, my Destroy to Create experiment will test whether pre-prepared meal delivery services can streamline the time and effort Mike and I put into grocery shopping and meal preparation....
I regularly conduct what I like to call “Destroy to Create” experiments, where I take a routine, habit or workflow and switch it up to see if I can make it better, faster, easier and/or cheaper. In Q4 2017, I wanted to see if I could replace a laptop...
Have you ever returned from travel, family time or group events feeling drained? As an introvert, I sure have. And this summer has been a doozy. In the last three weeks, I’ve slept for 12+ hours the day after coming home from a conference. Rescheduled an entire workday’s...
Every three months, I follow a process I call Destroy to Create: I select a regular practice, routine, habit -- something at which I’m already proficient and efficient in -- and reengineer it from first principles. Last quarter, I experimented with waking up at 5 a.m. and spending...
I’m in another one of my Destroy to Create experiments, and this one’s about switching my email client from Mailplane 3 to Airmail 3 -- and getting back down to a true Inbox Zero. I’ve been using Mailplane 3 for over a year, and it’s plenty...
