Tag: Focus

Daily Gleanings: Avoiding Distraction (25 July 2019)
Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller discuss how to avoid drifting along without accomplishing what you mean to. The discussion is directed most immediately at leaders. But as with many such things, there are direct lines of application in other contexts too (e.g., those of us who need to avoid drifting off course from completing…
25 June 2019
Daily Gleanings: Insights from Freedom (24 June 2019)
Freedom releases Insight for Chrome. According to Freedom, Insight is a simple plugin that shows you where you are spending your time in Chrome. … Insight tracks the time you spend on websites in Chrome, and provides a simple display so you can see where you’re spending your time. You can drill down into individual sites…
24 June 2019
Daily Gleanings (29 May 2019)
Freedom introduces Pause, a new Chrome extension that enforces a short pause before allowing you to open distracting websites. According to the extension’s description, When loading a distracting website, Pause creates a gentle interruption by displaying a calming green screen. After pausing for 5 seconds, you can then choose to continue to the site –…
29 May 2019
Daily Gleanings (22 May 2019)
Freedom discusses how to use their “block all except” whitelisting feature to block out distractions and interruptions. For more discussion of Freedom, see these prior posts. John Meade surveys ch. 4 of Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten’s How Old Is the Hebrew Bible? (YUP, 2018) and promises a follow-up post “attempting to engage the authors…
22 May 2019
Daily Gleanings (13 May 2019)
Craig Keener starts discussing some of the problems with David Hume’s criticism of the miraculous. Cal Newport expands on an earlier reflection about the downsides of email. See also “Daily Gleanings: Email (10 May 2019).”
13 May 2019
Are You Free to Focus? (Part 6: Takeaways)
The past few weeks, we’ve been discussing Michael Hyatt’s new book, Free to Focus.1 We’ve given some general context for the book and discussed each of its three major sections on stopping, cutting, and acting. Then, last week, we offered an general assessment of the book and its proposal to “achieve more by doing less.”…
13 May 2019