Single Tasking Equation

People can do several task in one time, they do a multitasking assignment. For example, they can eat popcorn while watching movie, or singing while taking a bath. But multitasking is not always doable. In some situation, you simply can not do more than one tasks in a time. If you force to do so, it will take longer time to finish them, compared with if you do these tasks one at a time.

For these types of tasks, the simple equation that works is:

works accomplished = time spent  x  intensity of focus

If you take only one task, and you pay attention to it, really pay attention, the quality of works you accomplished is higher than if you pay minimal focus on each of several tasks at a time.

To make it more clear, here is one example.

Suppose you are riding your motorbike, going to home. Suddenly you remember to tell your client, ask her to send you the minutes of meeting you had this morning. You might think you should do it right away while you still remember it.

It is better if you stop. Make a short phone call, or send her a text message. Then you proceed riding home.

Earth Hour

Pada tanggal 27 Maret 2010, WWF akan mengadakan program Earth Hour.

Apa itu? Ini adalah sebuah gerakan yang mengajak kita semua untuk mengurangi (walaupun hanya sedikit) efek dari pemanasan global yang membuat manusia semakin tidak nyaman menjalani hidupnya di bumi ini.

Caranya bagaimana? Pada tanggal 27 Maret 2010, pukul 20.30 waktu setempat, kita mematikan semua peralatan listrik di tempat tinggal kita. Atau, bagi yang pada tanggal itu terpaksa harus lembur di kantor, anda bisa pulang lebih cepat. Matikan komputer di cubicle anda, matikan lampu di rumah anda, matikan sebanyak mungkin peralatan listrik.

Tentu saja perlu diperhatikan agar jangan betul-betul gelap, jangan sampai ada pihak-pihak tertentu yang memanfaatkan gelapnya malam untuk kejahatan.

Berapa lama? Hanya satu jam saja! Dari pukul 20.30 hingga pukul 21.30 waktu setempat.

Ada lagi yang bisa saya lakukan? Beritahu teman-teman, saudara, tetangga, pak RT, pak RW, pak Lurah, pak SBY, tentang gerakan ini. Kita bisa melakukan sesuatu untuk kemanusiaan dari hal yang kecil, hal yang sederhana. WWF sudah menyediakan beberapa leaflet yang siap dicetak dan disebarkan bagi mereka yang berminat untuk berpartisipasi dalam kegiatan ini.

Ada informasi lebih jauh yang bisa saya ketahui? Kunjungi situs resmi Earth Hour.

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Utilize GMail Labels

This is one small tip I found several months ago. Today I need it, but quite forget how to use it. So, this small article is only one way to make me remember when I need to use it again in the future.

If you use GMail, and applies labels to your messages, and then you want to search all mails with certain label, you can enter into GMail's search box:

label:MyLabel

But what I need today is on the contrary. I want to find all mail messages which are not labeled by certain labels. What should I do? This is what I typed in into GMail's search box:

-label:MyLabel

It is sometimes useful too if you want to search email messages which are labeled with more than two labels. How to do it? Enter this:

label:Label1 label:Label2

Or, in more compact way

label:{Label1, Label2}

Alll of these can be combined. For example, I want to find all email messages that has LabelA and LabelB, but *not* labeled with LabelX. What I should enter into the search box?

label:{LabelA, LabelB} -label:LabelX

About Getting Started (of everything)

It's always hard to get started. If you do start it, you already win half of the battle.

"Mamam" and "Udah"

Last week, Aidan just turned eight months old. While I am far away
from him, my lovely wife tells me stories about his daily activities.
I was very excited yesterday when I heard Idan already said two words:
"Mamam" and "Udah". And he can use these words in correct situations.

When he feels hungry, he shouted "Maaa..m, mbuuu..", my wife told me.
Unfortunately, after five or six spoons of food delivered, Idan
intelligently says, "Udaaaa...h", and closed his mouth shut.

It seems he develop his talking ability much earlier than toddlers of his age.

Einstein Principle

This principle is really a simple principle that says if you pay more attention to one job at a time, then you will be more likely to finish it. On the contrary, if you pay your attention to two or more things at the same time, you will likely end your day with a guilty feeling, which is, you feel tired, but you feel there is nothing was done.