The RNDM #04

Live Longer, Drink Tea

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This week we found a free tool to help you get some focused work done, learnt a new technique to get more out of your brainstorm sessions and share an excerpt from a book that will change how you view productivity.

Flowful, AI generated music for focus

For the last few weeks I've been using this online tool to help me focus and get some deep work done. Flowful is a web app which uses AI to generate a never ending sound track to help you focus and reduce distractions. There's a variety of tracks to choose from and new ones released every week. I've found it helps me focus on the task at hand and reduce how often I'm distracted. Definitely worth a try if you're looking for something to help you focus.

Check it out here

The Most Dangerous Writing Prompt

If you're looking to work on your creative writing or just wanting something to do to pass some time, then check out this writing prompt tool. You're given a prompt and then can choose a time limit of between 3-60 minutes to write. The catch is you can't stop writing. As soon as you stop writing, you have upto 5 seconds to start writing again before your writing disappears.

Check it out here

Live Longer, Drink Tea

Good news for tea drinkers! A new study has shown that people who drink more than 2 cups of tea a day are likely to live longer. Analysis of data from 500,000 adults, aged between 40-69, showed a reduction of upto 13% in mortality in regular tea drinkers.

Check out the full article here

Productivity for Mortals

I recently finished reading the book Four Thousand Weeks: Productivity for mortals by Oliver Burkeman. This book brings a new perspective to how we should view productivity. Burkeman argues that instead of stressing about trying to fit everything in, we should instead focus on the truly important things in life and enjoy the miracle of life. The following excerpt really resonated with me on worrying less about the time we have and enjoying it while we can.

Why assume that an infinite supply of time is the default, and mortality the outrageous violation? Or to put it another way, why treat four thousand weeks as a very small number, because it’s so tiny compared with infinity, rather than treating it as a huge number, because it’s so many more weeks than if you had never been born? Surely only somebody who’d failed to notice how remarkable it is that anything is, in the first place, would take their own being as such a given – as if it were something they had every right to have conferred upon them, and never to have taken away. So maybe it’s not that you’ve been cheated out of an unlimited supply of time; maybe it’s almost incomprehensibly miraculous to have been granted any time at all.

I definitely recommend reading this book, not just for the productivity tips but also the philosophy behind it.

Brainwriting for Better Ideas

Brainwriting is a form of brainstorming originally presented in a German sales magazine in 1968 and developed by Bernd Rohrbach. It facilitates and allows introverted team members to be more involved in idea and innovation generation and problem solving. It facilitates a more inclusive and holistic approach to ensure everyone's ideas and opinions are heard equally.

Want to learn more before trying it out then click here to learn more.

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