Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 136 | Chris Winfield - Incremental Improvement
Guest:
Chris Winfield talks with Dave Rael about perceiving your own limitations, choosing the right priorities, and making incremental improvements
Chris Winfield is an entrepreneur and success coach in New York City. With the use of simple systems, techniques and the power of true focus, Winfield teaches business owners how to get 40 hours of work done in 16.7 and much more.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Chris Winfield
- - Chris's family and the importance of his daughter in his focus on productivity and presence - and his history of absence of presence
- - Being busy without accomplishment, incremental improvements, and the challenge continues
- - Chris and the Pomodoro Technique
- - Limitations of the Pomodoro Technique for an employee and ways to make it work - excuses and workarounds - interruptions in offices
- - Chris's book recommendation
- - Chris's relationship software, technology, and tools; the value of time
- - Chris's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Chris
Resources:
- Chris's Blog
- Ari Meisel on Developer On Fire
- John Grisham and writing one page every day
- A Time to Kill: A Novel - John Grisham
- MIT - Most Important Task - Leo Babauta
- Parkinson's law
- Chris's Extremely Popular Blog Post on the Pomorodo Technique
- Dave's Blog Post on the Pomodoro Technique
- Francesco Cirillo's Paper on the Pomodoro Technique
- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
- Joyce Akiko on Developer On Fire
- James Altucher
- Basecamp 3
- IFTTT
Chris's book recommendation:
Chris's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Be of serve - act for a purpose
- Share your skills with others and leverage their complementary skills
- Solve problems and understand the problem your customer actually has
