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About Axonic: In 2008 our company Axonic had its first international success with www.lookeen.com, which is sold in more than 130 countries of the world up to now. Lookeen is a very fast Outlook and desktop search solution. We gained a lot of experience and concentrated all our interests on our new project called Zenkit (https://zenkit.com). Zenkit is a SaaS project management plattform. You can organize your ideas, tasks, projects or your complete business.

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donottouchyourface.com 6y ago

Do not touch your face

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zenkit.com 6y ago

Project vs. Process: How to Determine the Difference

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zenkit.com 7y ago

How to Feed Employee Compulsions with “Social Media Breaks”

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zenkit.com 7y ago

Unlimited PTO Works for Netflix, But Can it Work for You?

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Zenkit redesigns its project management app, adds public API and more

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thenextweb.com 7y ago

Here’s why NASA is sending worms to space

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Milo Yiannopoulos banned from crowdfunding site Patreon

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thenextweb.com 7y ago

Hotel chain offers a ‘social media sitter’ to handle your Instagram

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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

New Satellites Will Hunt Pirates, and Maybe Terrorists

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thenextweb.com 7y ago

Controversial new test could be used to screen embryos for intelligence

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

How China’s Rulers Control Society: Opportunity, Nationalism, Fear

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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

Uber Is Reworking Its Playbook for World Domination

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

11/11 shows biometrics are the norm for payments in China

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www.forbes.com 7y ago

Here Is What Happens to Werewolves on the Moon, According to Geophysics

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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

A Canadian Ghost Town Takes a Gamble on Bitcoin

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thenextweb.com 7y ago

New species of dinosaur discovered in Neuquen, Patagonia

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Appyling AI to insurance documents, omni:us raises its first Series A funding

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Gab goes offline after GoDaddy tells it to find another domain registrar

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www.forbes.com 7y ago

Cathay Pacific Breach: Are You One of the 9.4M Passengers Whose Data Was Hacked?

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thenextweb.com 7y ago

This Google project visualizes the global effect of #MeToo’s first year

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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

U.K. Lawmakers Call for Ban on Traditional Cars in 14 Years

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www.forbes.com 7y ago

Australia Is Trying to Pass a Law That Could Kill DApps

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thenextweb.com 7y ago

Why 5G matters to VR adoption

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thenextweb.com 7y ago

China will outspend US on AI research by end of 2018

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Germany launches world's first autonomous tram in Potsdam

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www.bbc.com 7y ago

Tackling food waste in Nigeria with an app

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Robots in workplace 'could create double the jobs they destroy'

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www.forbes.com 7y ago

Why Data Scientists Are Crucial for AI Transformation

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Does the banning of Alex Jones signal a new era of big tech responsibility?

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www.forbes.com 7y ago

Of Vampires and the Challenges of Longevity Drugs

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It seems the author is already kind of biased when he set out to analyse the data.. use of the term 'overzealous vegans' in the first paragraph sets of a few alarms for me.

I think it would be interesting to look at other long term studies (like the 7th adventist study someone else mentioned here) as well as studies that look at plant based eating as a cure/preventative method for more specific/acute diseases (like Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn's WFPBN solution for cardiovascular disease, or Dr. Greger's 'How Not to Die' which compiles and summarizes research in the WFPB space https://nutritionfacts.org/book/)

Oh I loved Freakonomics!! What an excellent question. I want to propose 2 books: 1. Getting Things Done by David Allen. It really changed how I approach not only my workday but pretty much everything that could constitute "work" in my daily life. It's a bit of a learning curve to start, but once you implement GTD in your life it becomes second nature. You can learn about it here: https://gettingthingsdone.com/ and there's a good intro to it here: https://zenkit.com/en/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-getting-thin.... 2. How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger. When you start thinking of plants as medicine it really changes your whole approach to food and life in general. I've started following his 'daily dozen' and I've got to say that I feel absolutely incredible. (Check out his website here: https://nutritionfacts.org/)

Amazing works of fiction that I come back to again and again include Anna Karenina and The Three Musketeers

Getting things done and time blocking are good methods. The worst ist setting all up so you can start over with this methods. It's a lot of work but in the end, it's an awesome feeling. In the beginning, after setting it up, you really need to stay focused on this methods and stick to them. After a while, you get used to it and it becomes much easier.

If you want to learn more about it, I can recommend this articles about GTD https://zenkit.com/en/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-getting-thin...

Time Blocking https://zenkit.com/en/blog/why-you-should-be-time-blocking-a...

At the beginning of this year, I had a lot of fake calls. What helped was blocking the numbers when I discovered it was a fake. They tried several days while they were blocked and it stopped. Then they tried a new number and I blocked them again. After a few weeks, they stopped calling and they haven't done it since then. If you don't want to answer the calls where you don't know the number, just reject the call, google the number and have a look at the owner or if someone says it's a fake. If it's a real person you can call back.

If you can handle the cut, then yes. It's awesome to work in a startup. You can learn so many things, more than just your work area. The colleagues are more like a family and you will do more things together. You have also times where you need to work more but you can be more creative and you are able to offer more ideas which can help the startup flourish.

We had a developer who worked on one of our projects. After he left, it was a disaster. Our new developers discovered that the names and items he used were strange and not related to what it should do. So the devs needed to go through all codes, figure out what it's doing and rename the code. It took a lot of time...

I'm working on Zenkit. It's a collaborative project and task management software which is meanwhile a great alternative to Trello, Wunderlist and other tools on the market. The flexibility it gives us in the office (yes we use it ourselves in every department) is awesome and we have so many ideas on how to improve it that we sometimes not know what to do first. The potential is high and I'm curious about where we are going with that.

It could be all at the same. You could have a column or a List for Ideas. You could create a calendar with day's that could be used for a special posting like "world Nutella day" (okay that might be not your topic but I hope you get what I was trying to explain. Or use the calendar to keep the focus of constant postings. On the other hand, a content plan can offer you a great timetable for your actual writing. Add tasks for "research", "writing" or "add pictures" until the article is published. You can also add a template for your article and its structure. So it's everything to keep your head in the game and focus on what's important.

Have a look at https://zenkit.com . We use it for almost everything in the office. It's cloud-based with different data views and you are able to build your own database.

As you mentioned, there are comment sections for each task/item with mentioning. Reminder and due dates can be established. Change the sorting with a few clicks or use the search function.

There are studies which say that people can only focus on work six hours a day. Others say you need time to relax to become better concentrated at work. So why should people be forced to work 8 hours when 6 hours get the same result but the employees are more motivated.

I wish it would be common in Germany too...

It looks great and I think there are a lot of potentials. But you need to create a to-do list which could be finished in the right amount of time. But in the beginning, it's difficult to know how long you need for which task. Is it possible to unlock the websites after x finished to-do's? Maybe unlock it for 30 minutes?

We build our own productivity Tool Zenkit and that's why I need to discover tools in a different way.

The tools you use should work for you and they need to complement one another. Most tools can be used together by integrations and that's really cool sometimes.

But the main point should be to reduce the number of tools. They are a lot of great tools but they mostly focus on one area. But there are other tools, like our own https://zenkit.com/ , which combines several other tools to give you one place to work in.

It's difficult to break habits but not impossible. But to cure all bad habits with one over-all solution will not work in my opinion. But for everything you need the will to change something and the power of endurance. To stop biting nails you can use chewing gum or just add an oil onto the nails (there are some made for this concerns). It's bitter and tastes bad and you won't want to bite your nails again. To stop procrastination I would recommend using the method "getting things done".

I think it's just to get some news. The longer you are on the market the older you're UI gets. To go along with trends and to stay up to date you need changes. I actually try the new UI and it just looks a bit more modern but that's it. But the people talk about it so it works ;)