by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A simple piece of paper on the table next to the keyboard keeps everything flowing \u2014 especially new ideas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have a productivity multiplier that I use everyday and have for decades. It is not the computer that is a thousand or million times more powerful than what we used to go to the moon and back. It is a piece of paper. A simple blank piece of paper that doesn’t remain blank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I put a piece of paper on the table next to the keyboard. A pencil sits on the piece of paper. I work away churning out words and thoughts and designs and all sort of items we produce these days. The pencil and paper sit at the ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A new idea. Jot a note. Back to the keyboard in five seconds. The flow of work continues. The flow of ideas on the piece of paper also continues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A variation on what we are doing. Jot a note. Back to the keyboard in five seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This continues all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I sit in a coffee shop. They serve food in little brown paper bags. Ah. No need to bring a piece of paper as they just supplied one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How about writing on a napkin? That works. How about writing on a table cloth? That works, too. Writing on the table? That works, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just something to jot notes in a couple of seconds. Keep working. Keep ideas flowing. Keep the work flowing. It seems to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips A simple piece of paper on the table next to the keyboard keeps everything flowing \u2014 especially new ideas. I have a productivity multiplier that I use everyday and have for decades. It is not the computer that is a thousand or million times more powerful than what we used to go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,409,50,292,67,5],"tags":[165,410,172,295,187,128],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-record","category-thinking","category-tools","category-work","category-writing","tag-ideas","tag-record","tag-thinking","tag-tools","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4726,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}