How to Organize Your Business & Systems: 5 Principles for Clarity & Success

by Marissa Bracke |

Popular advice tells you to “organize your business in whatever way works for your brain.” That advice is popular because it's easy, not because it's good. Organizing your business in a way that makes sense to you works fine unless and until any other...

8 Super Easy, Must-Do Steps to Protect Your WordPress Site From Hacks and Malware

by Marissa Bracke |

I was always so sure it couldn't happen to me–and equally sure that it just wouldn't. I mean, I'm not a superstar online, so it's not like I'm that much of a target for hackers, right? I've never had any trouble with malware, so I'm not likely to start now,...

What’s the fritter-to-value ratio?

by Marissa Bracke |

Every application we use has a fritter-to-value ratio. Some are pretty low, like a (simple, non-graphing) calculator: you push the buttons, you get your answer. Basically no frittering to get the result you want. The fritter-to-value ratio is really low. But then...

Getting Wired In: How to Get Focused and Get Your Work Done Effectively

by Marissa Bracke | Last Updated: Mar 5, 2016

“He's wired in.” There are a couple of scenes in The Social Network (the movie about Facebook's creation) where someone describes one of the movie characters as being “wired in.” The character is shown typing code, headphones on, a bottle of...

Two reasons email has become ineffective (And how checking it once a day addresses them)

by Marissa Bracke |

Email, for many of us, has reached a point where it feels burdensome and out of control on more days than not. Some folks are ditching email entirely–an impulse I can't claim is unfamiliar, though that's probably not a realistic possibility for many of us. I'm...