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Information Overload: Show Me the Data!
(note: If you’d like to be able to understand how your business spends time in a way that doesn’t step on the individual privacy of your employees, drop us a line) Matt Richtel has a great piece on the...
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Daylight Savings Time costs the United States $480,000,000
On Monday, the entire RescueTeam dragged their collective backsides into the office a little bit late. Weekends are sometimes challenging to recover from in terms of work schedule– but Daylight...
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Startling Data: Are Men 32% more productive than Women?
Since we’re a gang of egotistical guys hanging around all day, we’ve always assumed we’re the crème de la crème here at RescueTime. Turns out, we were right. Our team is regularly in the 90th...
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The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man – 4.82 million hours
When Google launched its Pac-Man logo on Friday, we immediately heard amused groans in our tweet-streams. “Well, so much for my morning,” said one. “Google’s Pac Man logo just ruined millions of...
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Google is eating Microsoft’s lunch, one tasty bite at a time.
Microsoft just launched Office 2010 to great fanfare, and quietly slipped in a new free online version. It looks like they may have finally realized that if they don’t cannibalize their core business...
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Does the World Cup matter?
Evidently there are plenty of hooligans in my neighborhood looking for an excuse to start drinking and yelling at a TV around noon in my favorite pub. This was a little surprising to me, since I live...
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Google Doodle Strikes Again! 5.35 million hours strummed
Happy birthday to guitar legend, Les Paul who would have been 96 today! Google launched its Les Paul Tribute Doodle on Thursday which allowed users to record and playback friend’s recordings or just...
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How we use RescueTime, at RescueTime.
We built RescueTime because we thought it should be easier to make sure we’re spending our time the way we want to. It has opened up a whole new world of data for us, and we wanted to share some of the...
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Obama racks up karma and blows up servers with his Reddit AMA
President Obama made an appearance on Reddit this last Wednesday with an AMA (Ask Me Anything), answering questions from users for thirty minutes. At the peak of the event, there were over 198,000...
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Build it and they will come? Performant Search Part 2: The Technology Sauce...
Our job was to find a long term scalable solution to the problem of finding your activities that match your key word search. This post pertains to the technology involved. Read about product features...
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Can we skip the “Quantified” part and communicate directly to senses and...
Several weeks ago, I stumbled on this video of Linda Stone speaking about what she calls the Essential Self, which is a way of thinking about personal data and how people should interact with it at a...
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Come Join us at the Quantified Self 2015 Conference!
We’re excited to be sponsoring the Quantified Self 2015 Conference & Expo, June 18-20 in San Francisco. If you haven’t been to a QS Conference before, they’re awesome (more on that below). This...
View ArticleFacebook Dominates, the Emergence of reddit and Hulu: Taking a Look at 4...
We’re often surprised by how little work we get done during the day even after we’ve spent several hours in front of a computer screen. ...
View ArticleProductivity in 2017: What we learned from analyzing 225 million hours of...
When exactly are we the most productive? Thinking back on your last year, you probably have no idea. Days blend together. Months fly by. And another year ... The post Productivity in 2017: What we...
View ArticleGoogle owns 13% of me
I’m building some new screenshots today of the new-and-improved RescueTime UI and did a double-take when I was taking a screenshot… On a lark, I ... The post Google owns 13% of me appeared first on...
View ArticleInformation Overload: Show Me the Data!
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View ArticleRecession-proof yourself (and your team!)
Here at RescueTime we’ve always been focused on helping our users get the most out of their day. With the recent downturn of the world ... The post Recession-proof yourself (and your team!) appeared...
View ArticleDaylight Savings Time costs the United States $480,000,000
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View ArticleExtend Rails ActiveRecord and ConnectionAdapter to support dirty reads on MySQL
Discussed here is a mixin that extends Rails to provide an easy method to switch your database session between clean and dirty reads, otherwise known ... The post Extend Rails ActiveRecord and...
View ArticleDoes working from home make you more productive? Yes (with data)!
[note: some data in this post is missing– given that we work on and troubleshoot our own software, sometimes we don’t get to log ALL ... The post Does working from home make you more productive? Yes...
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