Adam Wuerl

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aerospace engineer, Star Wars nerd, PowerPoint hater, and family barista, @wuerl

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May 12	comment	Can Noise Cancelling headphones knock out people speaking, announcements, etc? I think a link to a detailed discussion of how noise canceling headphones deal with ambient conversations work would be helpful as I've also read that some (Bose specifically IIRC) are specifically designed to not, or less significantly attenuate noise in the frequencies of typical human speech for safety and situational awareness reasons.
May 2	comment	Advantages of disconnected time Completely anecdotal, but the Verge sponsored someone to spend a year unplugged from the internet. He's back and wrote an essay on the experience.
Apr 25	comment	Getting rid of an “I'll do it later” habit This question, as posed, is too broad to really have any effective answers. It appears what's being asked is a very general question about time management, procrastination, and how to be more productive during working hours so that you don't have to stay late. These themes have been the topic of at least dozens of books--and as a general rule if a question is so broad that it could serve as the topic for a book it's too broad to be a question on Stack Exchange. If you have a more specific question that could yield a narrower answer we'd love to have it.
Mar 10	comment	The rules or training: how to behave in open space? Answers that provide references to external material can be helpful, but because links can break and because many people who find this answer may not follow them it would be helpful to expand on this answer with a synopsis of the links. Just enough for a reader to be interested enough to follow them.
Nov 30	comment	Does Uberman's Sleep Schedule result in more productivity? @NikanaReklawyks Absolutely write an answer.
Nov 23	comment	How to avoid my Laziness Welcome to the site! I've closed this question as being too broad to really be answerable by the site's Q&A format. The list of things you're asking for help on is very broad. It's really a list of symptoms and not much information about any underlying issues.
Oct 24	comment	What should I do with emails that contain information that I often refer back to? This is too narrow of a recommendation to be a good general answer to your question, but for things like log-on information I store things in 1Password, although there are similar apps for secure storage of log-on information. Most should also allow a free notes field where you could paste unique instructions.
Aug 25	comment	At google, is the work always creative? This is more a question about Google corporate culture and not really personal productivity.
Jul 7	comment	Manage multiple tabs in browser I can't imagine having that many tabs open unless a good majority of them are to pages or articles you want to read later, in which case you should check out a time-shifting reading service like Instapaper, Pocket, Readability, or the reader feature in Safari.
Apr 13	comment	Developing Social Skills This question is a little to broad for a Q&A format because it violates the principle that a question so broad that it could become an entire book, which this topic could, is too large for the site. I recommend decomposing the question into smaller bite size chunks. Perhaps techniques for engaging in small talk with strangers would be small enough. If you want help decomposing this topic perhaps folks would be willing to help out in the chat room, which is totally appropriate for more free-form discussion like that.
Mar 29	comment	What is the best tool for improving brain power? Welcome. Recommendation or shopping list questions are generally discouraged on SE sites (e.g. gaming because they're not a good fit for the Q&A format. Our meta has a discussion about recommendations, which although infant offers good guidance. Please try re-phrasing your question along the lines of a guide: how to pick, not what to pick.
Mar 19	comment	Is there a good virtual desktop manager software for Windows? There are several duplicate questions about Windows virtual desktop software with answers over on Superuser, which is probably a better fit for this more software than productivity related question.
Mar 18	comment	How does positive or negative self-talk work? I think your question could be improved by expanding on what you mean by "it worked". Especially for those who have not read or are not familiar with the book or positive self-affirmation techniques.
Mar 18	comment	Outlook automation solution Per our FAQ, "problems related to software and automation scripts themselves" are off-topic for the site and better suited to Superuser or Stack Overflow.
Mar 11	comment	What are the digital equivalents of index cards? I don't think you need a Google account. That's an option, but it looks like you can just have a Trello account.
Mar 10	comment	Team work and productivity: Noisy office vs quite room Closed as a duplicate to an existing question on Programmers that has 27 upvotes and multiple answers with 10+ votes. I see that the same question has been closed on that site as being off-topic. Perhaps you can ask the moderators to migrate the question to this site.
Mar 7	comment	Is there a free software similar to Freedom? As worded this question is just a shopping list for software that has a similar feature set to something else. Questions like this have to solicit more constructive answers than people just responding with software they think is compatible.
Feb 25	comment	What “light therapy” lamp should I get that maximizes effectiveness while minimizing cost? I've closed this because it's a shopping list type of question, which has been found to not be a good fit for Stack Exchange sites. The question would be more answerable and useful to the community if it were reworded to ask about what someone should consider when buying a light therapy lamp. For how to tell a quality from a bad one, what the important features are and why they'd be valuable, etc.
Feb 18	comment	The productive label printer I agree. I have two of a slighter older version of the PT-1880. I haven't replaced the batteries in a year or so, and after the initial rush where I used a spool of tape I rarely have to replace it. The labels never fade and don't peel up off the manila folders I put them on. It looks nicer than hand writing and is almost as fast.
Feb 9	comment	How to use Remember The Milk (RTM) to implement a GTD system? @eflat Actually, since I wrote this answer I have started separate lists for projects. But I find in practice I only do this for large projects where I have a need to store many future actions and want a way to see all the tasks assigned to them at once. This of course could just as easily be done with tags; I just didn't decide to do it this way, mostly because in the iPhone and web app if I'm in a list when I enter a task it will put it in that list. I wrote all about this in a blog post.