Archives for May 2016

We recently purchased a new vehicle. I don't particularly like car shopping, but the process of trying to decide what features/capabilities were important to us was interesting. In this post, I wanted to list some of the factors we considered that relate to productivity and time savings with a new car: 1. Range and Fuel Capacity The time you spend at the pump is time you can't spend doing something else. Most people look at the MPG a vehicle gets but fewer people look at how far they can get on a single fill-up. Depending on what your time is worth, a vehicle that has a longer range, but just slightly lower MPG, may be more efficient for you, personally, because the more frequent … [Read more...] about Productivity-Based Vehicle Shopping

When you have kids, it's hard not to notice the correlation between their outputs (behavior, etc.) and their inputs (what they watch on TV, whom they play with, etc.). We don't watch very much television in our family. When we do watch something, we generally try to use educational programming (for example, a Nova video about lightning.) I found our kids are typically very interested in these types of videos and are engaged and asking questions about what is being said and shown. However, they are only engaged and interested when they haven't watched any "entertainment-style" programming. If they have seen a cartoon recently, they aren't nearly as interested in the educational content. My … [Read more...] about Television and Training a Productive Mind