productivity

Foo Camp 2010 Redux

Posted onJuly 13, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

Tim O’Reilly describes it better, but I’ll do my best: Foo Camp is an invite only free event at tech publishing mogul O’Reilly’s corporate headquarters. Being invited meant a great deal to me. My biggest source of inspiration has always come from people, and a new friendship with someone who has an infectious spirit and story to tell can give me fuel–literally–for years. I’ve tried to do my best to give back some of the inspiration I stole from the pool to others while stocking up on protein packed chunks for exciting new projects. Foo was the perfect venue for this. Definitely life changing! Read More …

Your iPhone app on your device

Posted onJune 10, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

This is from memory, so may contain a few jumps of logic, but I needed to write a quick tutorial for getting code on the iPhone for my Kliq cofounder and figured that it may be useful for the internet-at-large. Read More …

Consumption

Posted onMay 2, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

I recommend having a good mobile productivity setup, and having good tools for home, work and travel. Read More …

International Women's Day

Posted onMarch 8, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

Happy International Women’s Day 2010! I’ll be doing a longer post on Ada Lovelace Day March 24th (please consider pledging to make a post in your personal blog) but for now, here are some tasty links to bios and articles relating to gender issues, particularly women in the science and technology sector whom I admire. Read More …

Gmail workflow

Posted onFebruary 25, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

I met up with my incredibly talented friend Nada for lunch at Google Zürich today. You can read about how lovely the Google offices are elsewhere on the internet. Nada works on the Gmail team, and she’s the second hacker at Google working on Gmail to deem me a “power Gmail user.” Never fear, it’s Read More …

Posted onDecember 20, 2009AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

My personal productivity philosophy is a cross between Getting Things Done and the Cult of Done. I dig the simplicity of the latter, the emphasis on above all done, but some self-reflection and hierarchy of methodology can help reduce the delay between thought and action. My basic principles are: Record goals as soon as they Read More …