Web Worker Digest: Lifesourcing and Sand in Your Keyboard
In Web Worker Digest by SkellieTo avoid any shocking surprises when you open up your feed reader, just a heads up to say that I’ve taken over editing Freelance Switch for now. It’s been heaps of fun so far, and it’s really neat to have other people write awesome content for me, which I then just have to polish and prettify. I feel a little pampered! I’m also trying to see how many ‘P’ words I can work into one paragraph.
Steve Rubel talks about his lifesourcing experiment and the implications personal outsourcing may have for the future. This is of keen interest to me — I hope I can show you why in a week or so.
Nick Cernis shares the paper love and writes a manifesto against over-complicated productivity systems.
Mahesh tipped me off about a two-post series he wrote on hacking Gmail search (part 1 and part 2). It contains all kinds of rules and tips on using the search field to find the exact email you’re looking for, and I’ve used some of the hacks already.
For those of you for whom English is a second language, Jarkko Laine shares some ultra-cool tips on writing like a native speaker. Make sure to check out his post on why a side business forces you to balance your life, as well.
Noel Ranger writes an almost-answer to last week’s link on how to work from the beach. Noel decided to test the wisdom of working in a beach environment and found that it’s not quite as wonderful as it sounds…
I don’t make the time to read as much as I should, so if you have a link that would fit in one of Anywired’s web worker digests, tip me: anywired at gmail dot com.












March 3rd, 2008
Grats on the FSw gig, Skellie. I look forward to seeing where the blog goes under your direction.
Love Nick Cernis’s article. I’m glad someone came out and said it. As much as I think GTD can be useful, it’s fanatic popularity is getting a bit overkill.
March 3rd, 2008
Well done on the guest editorial slot, Skellie. I can imagine you have a lot of great copy to nosey through!
Thanks also for the mention (and the kind words, Evan!). Writing an article denouncing my faith in productivity ’systems’ cost me over 200 lost subscribers and a couple of snarky emails, but it was worth it!
March 6th, 2008
Nick, are you serious about the 200 lost subscribers?! Wow. I didn’t know we “productivians” were such a sensitive lot
March 6th, 2008
‘Fraid so, Yungchin. It’s not so bad though — things are looking healthy on the whole.
March 6th, 2008
@ Nick: Subscriber counts tend to fluctuate a lot anyway, so it could just be natural variance. They go up a few hundred some days, down a few hundred the next. It’s actually driving me crazy at the moment ;-).
March 6th, 2008
Hey Skellie, that’s great to see that you link to my posts. Thanks!!!
And Congrats for being the editor for FreelanceSwitch, it’s one of the blog that I greatly respect to it’s content and quality.
-Mahesh