Negative Productivity

Even worse than procrastination is a bout of negative productivity.

Procrastination can be irritating but at least its somewhat in your hands. Negative productivity comes about from events that happen outside of your control but that conspire to drive you nuts. Typically just when you’ve decided to stop procrastinating and get some work done…

This happened to me yesterday.

Having taken a strong decision to spend a solid afternoon working on the upcoming Billy Connolly website, I made coffee, turned on my laptop and prepared to get down to business, little knowing that Fate was thinking “And now, for something completely different!”

Each time I got started with outlining a work plan I was rudely interrupted by various things ranging from soggy sheets stubbornly entangled in each other, delivery of a large box of clothes and books, delivery of a new microwave oven, failed attempts to get rid of old microwave oven, bad internet connectivity, forgotten passwords, and finally, numerous topplings-over of clothes horse under combined weight of said soggy sheets.

By the end of 5 hours, all I had accomplished was writing down a list of 5 to-do items and in the process of doing so had reached such a level of frustration that it was impossible to settle down to do anything productive by then.

So I went out to have a Gynn ‘N’ Tonnick, safely procrastinating further work to the next day :-)

Tech Questions & Answers

Thanks to Jim at EzPzApps for inviting me to answer a couple of questions about technology and creativity. You can get the full article here.

I met Jim at an entrepreneurship event some years ago in Malta and I’ve followed some of his very interesting software projects. His most recent “ClipaSearch Pro” is definitely worth checking out!

SWOT Analysis - Climate Change

 I was sent this video clip, posted on YouTube by “johnq5″. Recommended watching  for all and sundry.

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Tags: entrepreneurship, climate change, global warming, environment

Ad:tech London

Off to the London Ad:tech event this week.

Looks like an extremely promising event packed with interesting sessions and a promising keynote from Virgin Galactic CEO.

Fresh Starts

After a lengthy period of blog-inactivity due to extreme busy-ness in other areas I’ve finally come back to my WordPress account and decided that the best way to deal with everything is to simply purge and exorcise everything and re-baptise this site.

So that’s what this very short is about.