Review: Lifehacker - I'm Jamie Todd Rubin, and This Is How I Work
Speaking of Evernote, I take Evernote's slogan, "remember everything" literally. I use Evernote as my paperless filing cabinet, but also part of my automation engine. Since everything in Evernote has a date associated with it, it also acts as a kind of timeline of events in my life, making for a kind of automated journal. This has become a great reference source for me.
Evernote ကို အသံုးခ်ျပီး Timeline of Events (Diary) ပံုစံမ်ိဳး လုပ္ျပီး Date, Tag နဲ႕ မွတ္ရမည္။
My best time-saving shortcut is to multitask my daily exercise and reading. I try to walk about 7-8 miles/day. I do this by taking a short walk at 10am, walking for my entire lunch hour, and another short walk at 3pm. The rest comes from moving from here to there throughout the day. But those three daily walks are where I get in my exercise and while I'm walking, I am always listening to audio books. This allows me to kill two birds with one stone.
Multitask က အာရံုစိုက္ရတဲ့အရာမ်ိဳးမွာ ႏွစ္မ်ိဳး လုပ္တာ မေကာင္းေပမယ့္ တစ္မ်ိဳးက အာရံု သိပ္စိုက္စရာ မလိုရင္ လုပ္ႏိုင္တယ္။ အခ်ိန္ေတြ ပိုထြက္လာေစတယ္။
And I will walk in almost any weather. It's such a regular feature of my day that on days I can't do it for one reason or another, I just don't feel right. The walking probably amounts to 2 hours/day, which also guarantees me at least 2 hours of audio book listening every day.
ေကာင္းေသာ အက်င့္ ကို ဆင္ေျခေတြ ေပးမေနဘဲ မလုပ္မေနႏိုင္ အက်င့္ျဖစ္ေနေအာင္ ေန႕တိုင္း လုပ္သင့္တယ္။
My second best time-saving shortcut is to try to automate anything that I have to do more than once. I use text files for a lot of things, and that helps with automation. I use tools like TextExpander to avoid typing in the same thing again and again. And I do all kinds of little coding automations—like automatically adding action items in meeting notes to my to-do list so that I don't have to type them in twice—that save little bits of time here and there that really add up.
“TextExpander” ကို အသံုးျပဳရာတြင္ သေကၤတ တစ္ခုထည့္ျပီးေရးသားပါက အမွားအယြင္းေပၚျခင္းမ်ိဳး ရွိေတာ့မွာ မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး။ သံုးျခင္းအားျဖင့္လည္း ထပ္ခါတလဲလဲ ရိုက္စရာ မလိုအပ္ေတာ့ဘူး။
I don't know that I am better at any one thing, but I am big believe in the value of personal analytics and the quantified self movement. Over the years, I've automated the collection of a lot of data about me, that I can look at, interpret, and find areas for improvement.
ဘယ္အရာ မွာ သင့္ကိုယ္သင္ ေတာ္တယ္ (သို႕) ထူးခြ်န္တယ္ လို႕ သင္ျမင္ပါသလဲ။ က်ေနာ္ ဒီမွာေတာ့ ေတာ္တယ္လို႕ ဘယ္ေျပာလို႕ ရမလဲ။ စကားခ်ီးခံျပီး ကိုယ္လုပ္ခ်င္တာ ျဖစ္ထြန္းတာေတြကို ေနာက္မွေျပာခ်င္ရာေျပာ။
I've written every day for the last 219 days, and I've only missed 2 days in the last 365! What I learned from the data was that I could write 500 words in 20 minutes. I usually have 20 minutes in a day to write, often after getting my kids ready for bed. The words add up. In a year since I started this, I've written over 310,000 words. And since every day of writing is practice, I think I'm getting better. My sales of nonfiction and short fiction have been increasing in the last year. (Of course, this could also be due to the increased output.) But I think learning from the data played a vital role in teaching me that I didn't need long periods of time to write; that in my current circumstances, writing a little bit every day works much better.
Data နဲ႕ က်ေနာ္လည္း စကားေျပာၾကည့္ခ်င္တယ္။ :D
What's the best advice you've ever received?
For writing, you can't beat Stephen King's advice in On Writing. If you want to be a writer, you have to do two things: write a lot and read a lot.
အကယ္၍ သင္ စာေရးဆရာ ျဖစ္ခ်င္တယ္ဆိုရင္ သင့္မွာ လုပ္စရာ ႏွစ္ခုပဲ ရွိပါတယ္။ စာအမ်ားၾကီး ဖတ္ဖို႕ နဲ႕ စာအမ်ားၾကီး ေရးဖို႕။
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When I attend science fiction conventions, I try to get on the "new writer" panels because, although I've been publishing stories for seven years now, I still feel like a new writer. One of the things I am very upfront about on these panels is that, so long as you love what you are doing, you shouldn't give up, despite the rejection slips. It took me 14 years of writing stories, submitting stories, and collecting hundreds of rejections slips before I made my first sale. Practice and persistence pay off.
သင္ လုပ္တာကို သင္ ႏွစ္သက္ေနရင္ သင္ ရွံဳးနိမ့္ခဲ့ရင္ေတာင္မွ အရံွဳးမေပးသင့္ပါဘူး။ ေအာင္ျမင္မွဳ ကို ရရွိဖို႕ ရွံဳးနိမ့္မွဳ မ်ားစြာ ၾကံဳေတြ႕ေက်ာ္ျဖတ္သြားရပံု ကို ျမင္ေယာင္မိပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ့ ေလ့က်င့္မွဳ ႏွင့္ တစ္စိုက္မတ္မတ္ျပဳလုပ္မွဳ ေတြရဲ့ အသီးအပြင့္ေတြကို ခံစားရတာဘဲ။
Review: Lifehacker - I'm Jamie Todd Rubin, and This Is How I Work
