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Entries from February 2009

Outsourcing Life: Sid Savara on Virtual Assistants

February 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Last year, virtual outsourcing made it on my list of 10 Technologies I Resist. It seemed like a solution looking for a problem. There wasn’t much that I could imagine virtual assistants doing that I couldn’t do personally in much less time and with less management overhead. More importantly, I didn’t want to end [...]

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Tags: Lifestyle Design · Productivity · Technology

Six Time Management Tools from Julie Morgenstern

February 15th, 2009 · 8 Comments

Time management has become increasingly important to me. In the last six weeks, I’ve gone from full-time freelance writing work to working for the Man, doing analytics for an internet firm in El Segundo — while still maintaining most of my professional writing. Between working during the day, the 3-4 hour round trip commute, [...]

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