Articles from metaphor
Recharge Your Creative Thinking with Rest
Rest is not the opposite of work—rest and work are partners. This article introduces the seven types of rest you need to fully recharge your creativity. It’s part one of a two part series on creative resilience.
Your Annual Productivity System Review
Your productivity apps can reinforce positive habits or lock in unproductive behaviors. This post helps you identify productivity sinkholes and evaluate the individual applications in your personal productivity toolkit.
Making Your Work Visible with Personal Kanban
The cliché "out of sight, out of mind" is used to convey the idea that we quickly forget people, problems and things that are no longer visible. This post explores the benefits of making work and workflows visible.
The Beautiful Side of Constraints
Mental models are lenses—they help you see, discover, and understand. But like real optical lenses, sometimes they can be flipped to reveal completely opposite perspectives. The concept of constraints is a perfect example.
Debug Your Productivity with Systems Thinking
This post introduces “systems thinking” and applies the concept to personal productivity in order to help us develop a better understand two common productivity system issues: a growing backlog of tasks and diminishing output.