The Martin Messier Gazette

If you don’t know David Seah’s Printable CEO, head over there and get acquainted. He also came up with a magnificient Compact Calendar you ought to check out.
I’ve been following David’s work for four years now. It just keeps getting better and better.
It’s fascinating work. Beautiful design, thoughful productivity forms, and insightful blogger. Winning combination.
David’s latest creation is a Groundhog Day Resolutions Tracking system (David doesn’t do New Year’s Resolutions anymore). It’s a motivator-productivity booster-focus system all packed into a [...]

Imagine what project management application could be derived from this tool. I’ve been waiting for this for years…
What if you could rearrange your tasks physically using these blocks?
Neat stuff!

TED Talks: David Merrill demos Siftables

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Everyone and anyone interested in increasing productivity has, at one point or another, crossed the following instruction:
The secret to productivity is focus. Do only one thing at a time.
And then, the inevitable question surfaces:
“How do I do that?”
I venture to say that Merlin Mann has answered the question.
Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.
[...] So, first, care. Then, as you’ll happily and unavoidably discover, all that “focus” business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.
There you go. [...]

Ali Hale wrote a provoking article on productivity over at Productive Flourishings. You should read it.
She writes:
When we get in a tangle and try to match up creativity with productiveness with busyness, it’s often because we’ve been taught to align productivity with outputs – particularlymeasurable outputs: words written, hours worked, widgets cranked.
But being productive isn’t about being able to point to items ticked off on a to-do list. It’s possible, indeed, easy, to be very busy and active without producing anything worthwhile. [...]