Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. TJ McCue is Seattle-based and covers tech & productivity tools. If this white kitchen timer looks familiar, then you were born in ...

Excerpted from "LEARNING HOW TO LEARN: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying" by Barbara Oakley, PhD, and Terrence Sejnowski, PhD, with Alistair McConville, published by ...

Maybe it’s the heatwave, maybe it’s my terrible summer sleeping pattern – recently, I’ve been struggling to focus on pretty much anything. The 3pm slump has been worse than usual. Email lines blur ...

I've alluded to my search for personal organization a couple of times during 2009. While it's not something that I'm obsessing about, I now capture my major goals in Things, and that at least tells me ...