I take long walks, usually a 3-mile route, several times a week. I listen to podcasts when I go, and I go at different times of the day, depending on what my schedule allows.
If it's multimedia, it goes into Evernote. I use Evernote almost exclusively for recipes and other web clippings.
Starting Lifehacker in 2005 from scratch and running it till 2009 is still the thing I'm best known for, and it's probably had the greatest reach and impact of all my projects so far. The sheer size of the community and platform opened up unimaginable opportunities for me—the books, the apps, the podcasts, the…
> do you start and finish at the same time each day?
Making three lists, and revising them daily and weekly. You can read more about my stripped-down GTD system here: http://lifehacker.com/335269/practicing-simplified-gtd
Starting new projects is way more exciting and tempting than trudging through all the tedium you have to in order to finish. I have left plenty of unfinished/ignored/half-started projects in my wake, and when I look at them all I get pretty down on myself. First thing I have to do is forgive myself. You won't find the…
I'd like to get better at iOS development, so I'd spend time really digging into Objective-C. I do light development in it now, but I'm kind of flying by the seat of my pants, depending on my open source community to do the heavy lifting.
Erica's great! We worked together here at Lifehacker many moons ago.
ThinkUp has well-defined code style guidelines, so when I review code I ask the submitter to make sure they're using our style before sending it to me. The project requires that all code is thoroughly commented and documented as well, so that helps a lot.
