If you’re anything like me, you’ve tried all sorts of systems to organise your life. For me, nothing ever seemed to stick.

I would use an online website to record tasks, and find myself stymied when ever I added tasks that didn’t quite match up with the little buckets it asked for…

The Jan 30 edition of the New Yorker has a fantastic article by Jonah Lehrer about brainstorming. Read it here: GroupThink by Jonah Lehrer (subscription required).

The conclusion of the article is quite surprising. Studies show that groups using brainstorming techniques churn out fewer ideas than if the individual participants had written down a list of ideas on their own. Also, the ideas that were generated were poorer quality than the individual efforts…

I’m currently working on an app that has a dashboard-style page that we needs to be automatically refreshed. After digging around, I realised that the code to do this was ridiculously trivial: