January 2011
3 posts
Dissecting flow and productivity – Case Bookstrapp...
Flow is described as “mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity”, and said to require 1) clear goals, 2) skills matching the challenge and 3) clear and immediate feedback. Last weekend, at least about 100 people experienced that state at the Aalto Venture...
Dr Piotr Wozniak versus Tim Ferriss on Polyphasic... →
Does polyphasic sleep actually work? If it doesn’t, why would Tim Ferriss advertise it and claim he has benefited from it?
After all, he explicitly says:
”I have used both the ‘Everyman’ and ‘Siesta’, detailed in this chapter, with great success. I reserve anything resembling ‘Uberman’ for emergency deadlines only.”
Tim Ferriss wrote a...
Ever thought about how much Oodi sucks? Now you...
My first contact with the infamous Oodi was in 2006 when I started in the CS dept. of the University of Helsinki. (Web)Oodi is an information system designed originally in 1995 to administer the huge register of students in public universities in Finland, and later also a development Consortium (Oodi-konsortio). It started with at least the universities of Helsinki and Oulu.
Depending on the...