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Embrace and escape!

I've never had more fun writing my 41st and 42nd books! I tackle what I've seen in 30 years of examining innovation success and innovation failure, and have wrapped them into two concise overviews that go hand in hand.

Today, I'm getting images together for Escaping Mediocrity, arriving by May 15, while watching sales for Embracing Mediocrity, which is already in print.

Two books. One powerful message!

Get yours - learn more!

**#EmbraciongMediocrity** **#EscapingMediocrity** **#JimCarroll** **#Futurist** **#PersonalDevelopment** **#CareerGrowth** **#SelfHelp** **#BusinessBooks** **#MindsetShift** **#ProfessionalGrowth** **#LeadershipDevelopment** **#BreakthroughResults** **#SelfImprovement** **#Motivation** **#Success** **#CareerAdvice** **#PersonalGrowth** **#MediocritySeries** **#BookRelease** **#ProductivityTips**

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Want to organize your tasks more efficiently? Check out our Quick Manual Sorting Guide for work package tables 🛠️. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content like this and boost your productivity!

Watch here: youtu.be/uzQ92SR1bZ8 #ProductivityTips #OpenProject #ProjectManagement #WorkPackages

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📚 The Art of Not Reading: Intellectual Discipline in the Age of Information Overload 📚

In my latest article I explore the intellectual discipline of selective reading—why indiscriminate consumption dilutes critical thinking, and how curating our intellectual intake leads to deeper comprehension and independent thought.

#SelectiveReading #InformationOverload #CriticalThinking #DeepWork #IntellectualDiscipline #KnowledgeManagement #LifelongLearning #ProductivityTips

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Dr Robert N. Winter · The Art of Not Reading
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👩‍💻💡Developer productivity isn’t about hustle—it’s about making life easier for your team. Cut distractions, simplify workflows, and keep communication smooth, so developers can build awesome stuff that delivers value.

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octopus.comFairly measuring and improving developer productivity in 2025
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I've started to use kagi as my main search engine and it's an amazing experience. Ten years ago, I didn't imagine I'd one day be paying for a search engine, but as the main ones got so enshittified, bloated, full of unrelated promoted stuff and AI mess over the years, it came to this.

I know kagi is just a reseller of search results, but they're clean and concise search results. And it does offer many customizations via gui presets, not weird URL tricks and/or keywords.

Also, it's AI quick answer feature is actually helpful most of the time, unintrusive, and offers mostly relevant links.

Thanks to @shine who got me hooked! I'd still love to have some free, OSS, privacy friendly solution with no login, but the more complex the digital world becomes in some areas, the less such options are there 🙁

#ProductivityTips #SearchEngine #Kagi #KagiSearch

I would implore you all to use ISO 8601 for dates (year-month-day, biggest to smallest)! I sent a message out to my team at my job about this before discovered that XKCD actually made a comic regarding this haha. My favorite feature is that it allows for “natural” (lexicographical) sorting so that you can just sort your files on your computer by name! It also plays nicely with file paths on operating systems since it does not use `/` to delineate year-month-day.

The ambiguity between month/day in many date systems really hurts my brain. I admit that I sometimes use the US-standard of month/day/year for those individuals whose brains are likely not ISO 8601 compliant.

Original XKCD: xkcd.com/1179/

Wikipedia on ISO 8601: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

🎄🎅🏼 NEW FEATURE ALERT!!! 🎅🏼🎄

Did you know that Windows 11 has a brand-new built-in feature that lets you extract text from anything you can see on your screen? 🤯 This is a game-changer for anyone who deals with PDFs, screenshots, or scanned documents that contain text. 📄

You can easily copy and paste the text from anything on your display using the Snipping Tool and the Text Actions feature. 🖱️ You can also redact sensitive information from the image, such as email addresses or phone numbers. 🔒

This is a huge time-saver and a productivity booster. 💯
Want to see how it works? Check out my latest video where I show you how to extract text from an image in Windows 11.

🎥: youtu.be/LzOMrCfVG3g