In our last blog post of 2019, we are going to look back at some of our most popular blog posts of the year.
Today’s post is going to introduce a concept that I have personally used to get more focused work done. And just recently I came to find out that there was a name for it – time boxing. I am not the first person to write an article on time boxing; not by any stretch.
Back in the December 1900 edition of The Ladies Home Journal, author John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. wrote an article called “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”. In it, Watkins made a series of predictions of what may happen in the world in the year 2000.
Have you ever noticed that much of what you see on the internet is crap? You see examples of it everywhere! From products on Amazon (thank God for reviews to help us figure out what is good!) to many blog posts (except Prime Your Pump!), to the design of websites that we visit.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Byron Wien, he is an American investor and vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Partners.