E L S U A ・ A blog by Luis Suarez
A blog about working smarter, not necessarily harder, through social networking, digital technologies
Do you still remember the article "Is Multitasking Bad for the Brain?", that I put together a few weeks back over here in this blog? I am not sure whether you do or not, but I’m certainly having a blast myself at the moment moving away from multitasking on my day to day work after … Continue reading How to Avoid Multitasking – The Pomodoro Technique
Last week, if you would remember, I wrote a blog entry on the topic of ’The Perks of Freelance Work’ to describe some of the things I have enjoyed the most, so far, from being a freelancer over the course of last three years. While that post did not include an exhaustive list of … Continue reading The Downsides of Freelance Work
As I am getting closer to my third year anniversary as a freelancer, and since I also mentioned how every now and then I may write a blog entry here and there to share some additional insights on what it is like the life of an independent adviser (around Social Business and Digital Transformation, … Continue reading The Perks of Freelance Work
There have been a lot of people who, over the course of the last few months, have been asking me whatever happened to that initiative I started a while ago around ditching corporate email (Under the moniker “A World Without eMail“), since things seem to have been a bit quiet over here in this blog … Continue reading Life Without eMail – 5th Year Progress Report – The Community, The Movement
I have been working as a remote knowledge (Web) worker for the last 9 years in two different countries and four different business units in one single organisation and I guess that, at this point in time, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Specially, thanks, amongst several other reasons, to the flexibility and freedom … Continue reading 9 Ways To Increase Your Productivity While Working From Home
One of the biggest challenges we, knowledge (Web) workers, keep facing over the course of time, as we get more and more heavily involved with knowledge work being carried out through both traditional and emergent collaboration and knowledge sharing tools out there on the Social Web, is the fact that, now more than ever, we … Continue reading Staying Healthy – 11 Ergonomic Tips for Avoiding RSI
Nearly two weeks later, after my last blog post over here (See Three Wishes), here I am again putting together this next entry thinking that it may well be a good time now to change, somewhat, part of my own blogging style, once again, since it looks like it is taking me more and more time … Continue reading The Hybrid Experiment
In the past, and over the last few months, I have been blogging around the topic of multitasking quite a bit and I am starting to believe, more and more by the day, and rather firmly!, by the way, in our inability to multitask effectively, specially when having to deal with rather complex and tough tasks … Continue reading The Myth of Multitasking Revisited
If you have been a regular reader of this blog, you would know how, by now, and every so often, I get to talk and share further insights around one of my favourite Web sources for learning on a wide range of topics available out there at the moment. One that surely doesn’t leave people … Continue reading Why Work Doesn’t Happen at Work – A World Without Meetings?
How about if we get things going with another week at work by sharing along another one of those short video clips that permeates not only a wonderful dose of inspiration for us all, but also some rather thought-provoking gems throughout the entire 10 minutes that it lasts? That wouldn’t be too bad of a … Continue reading The Source of Creativity by John Cleese
