PowerToys Grew Up While You Weren’t Looking
After my final session at TechCon365 in Dallas last week, an attendee (Yan Nezhinsky) came up and asked if I was familiar with Windows...
Category: Productivity
A New Blueprint for Productivity in the AI Era
In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about competence debt—the hidden cost of rushing to teach AI prompts and agentic workflows while letting...
The Competence Debt: What We’re Losing in the Rush to Become AI-First
I’ve spent a lot of my career talking about productivity. For much of that time, that meant talking about Microsoft Office, and later Microsoft...
Handwriting vs. Typing: What the Brain Research Actually Shows (and Doesn’t)
A Norwegian neuroscientist’s brain-imaging work has been making the rounds again, repackaged as proof that typing is bad for your brain and handwriting is...
Data Silos Are Still Killing Productivity
We’ve been talking about breaking down silos for the better part of two decades. It was a staple of every SharePoint pitch I ever...
Five Practical Ways to Be Productive in a Distracted World
I was sitting and chatting over the holidays with family members about typical productivity struggles, what I do to be productive personally, and how...
Breaking the Infinite Workday
You ever look up from your laptop, realize it’s 9:45 PM, and think: Wait, didn’t I just log in? That’s been my loop lately. Well….for...
Threaded Discussions in Microsoft Teams
There was a time when Teams channels felt like a free-for-all. Posts appeared here, replies popped up there, and important threads vanished like socks...
Why Your Day Starts Before Your Inbox Does
I don’t know about you, but my morning routine needs a makeover. For many years I was up by 5:30 am and preparing for...
Productivity Tip: Creating Outlook Tasks
Ever read an email, mentally note the “next step,” and then totally forget to do it? Yeah, me too. Buried tasks are one of...
