You can learn a lot about someone just by knowing how they do things. Is they the kind of person who can have a perfectly color-coded email inbox, a perfectly organized to-do list, and — what’s that — they just sent you a calendar invite for next week’s happy hour? Or are they more likely to have a giant stack of sticky notes they never look at, a computer desktop with so many files on it that you can’t even see the wallpaper, and the day’s top tasks written on their arm? Neither of those things are wrong, but they are very different.
In This episode of The Vergecast, In the second part of our three-part miniseries on work and productivity and how to accomplish more in a digital world, we decided to get to know our colleagues in a new way: by asking them to share their own productivity systems. We didn’t give them a lot of specific instructions or tasks to do, other than to be prepared to answer one question: How do you get things done? Eight Edge Staff members came up with eight very different ideas about what it means to be productive and how best to achieve it. Along the way, we found some ideas to copy, some new apps and tools to try, and plenty of new insights about our coworkers.
If you want to learn more about the topics we discussed in this episode, here are some links to get you started:
