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Tom Stafford

The Tyranny of Email — 10 Tips to Save You

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to my habits recently and how they affect me. One thing I’ve placed an increasingly watchful eye on is email. Email seems pervasive in our lives. We check email on …

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The Psychology Of The To-Do List

Ten years after David Allen’s bestselling productivity book Getting Things Done, scientific research caught up. We now know why the popular system is so effective. The key behind GTD is writing …

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Why We Overpay at Auctions

Tom Stafford discusses a lot of the psychological principles that make rational bidding hard. Auctions also hit on many psychological persuasion techniques: First, auctions use the principle of …

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