Eat the Frog

May 22, 2024

Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worse things that will happen to you all day long. Your “frog” is that task that you are dreading doing.

Do Less to Get More Done

May 22, 2024

Have you heard of the Pareto Principle? It is sometimes called the 80/20 Rule because it states that 20% of the effort brings 80% of the results. 80/20 spans industries, professions, hobbies, sport, everything.  In today’s society we are driven to be busy, it is expected in fact. If you are a leader you are

The Unchained Developer- Free Your Workflow and Become Device Agnostic

May 4, 2020

Back in 2011, I was getting frustrated with my aging development machine. It could barely keep up with me, though I resisted getting a new machine because it can be so frustratingly time-consuming to set up a new machine. As I pondered what to do a thought struck me, “you are a WEB developer Ben….

Mute and unmute your mic quickly with this Alfred Workflow

March 17, 2017

I am on a lot of calls for work every day and juggle several different call applications. Finding the apps mute/unmute button quickly gets tedious. On some apps the UI is so poorly designed as to make toggling the mic nearly unusable. Enter Alfred! Alfred is an amazing productivity app. Alfred let you run custom