Hi @anon97473515, thanks for reaching out! The Asana and Outlook integration pulls data from the Task such as due date, due time etc and will set an all day event but does not manually mark it as busy. I recommend you checking if there are any settings active in your Outlook Calendar that would set you to busy for each event.
What happened to a world in which we can sit with the people we love so much and have slow conversations about the state of our heart and soul, conversations that slowly unfold, conversations with pregnant pauses and silences that we are in no rush to fill?
The reality looks very different for others. For many, working two jobs in low-paying sectors is the only way to keep the family afloat. Twenty percent of our children are living in poverty, and too many of our parents are working minimum wage jobs just to put a roof over their head and something resembling food on the table. We are so busy.
The old models, including that of a nuclear family with one parent working outside the home (if it ever existed), have passed away for most of us. We now have a majority of families being single families, or where both parents are working outside the home. It is not working.
I am not asking how many items are on your to-do list, nor asking how many items are in your inbox. I want to know how your heart is doing, at this very moment. Tell me. Tell me your heart is joyous, tell me your heart is aching, tell me your heart is sad, tell me your heart craves a human touch. Examine your own heart, explore your soul, and then tell me something about your heart and your soul.
Put your hand on my arm, look me in the eye, and connect with me for one second. Tell me something about your heart, and awaken my heart. Help me remember that I too am a full and complete human being, a human being who also craves a human touch.
I am always a prisoner of hope, but I wonder if we are willing to have the structural conversation necessary about how to do that, how to live like that. Somehow we need a different model of organizing our lives, our societies, our families, our communities.
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I work with an embedded excel table which contains a function. At a certain point I get the error message "Excel is busy; can't activate Excel. Make sure that cells are not being edited in Excel and try again in a few seconds." but there is no instance of excel open. Upon restarting mathcad and/or my computer the problem remains.
I've had this problem on a number of computers. PTC says they can't duplicate the problem. However, uninstalling Office 365 and then reinstalling it seems to solve the problem. I've had success with several computers.
I had that kind of problem already in legacy Mathcad and of course also in Prime ever so often. Also with Office 2016.
I was somehow able to recover (reinstalling Office was one way to do) but the problem still popped up later again which was quite annoying.
It is also important to point out that when putting together some sort of batching system for those everyday activities/obligations which cannot be avoided, that perfection must be ruthlessly ignored. Too often, we see otherwise productive folks spend the peak of their motivation cycle/deep work phase attempting to put together the perfect system for managing their more menial tasks.
There are some potentially remarkable people that are constantly bogged down in the minutiae of a task management system. Figure out a task management system that works for you, then move on to do your remarkable work.
2. My first challenge here is picking Tao as he seems to be an outlier. Excellence is both nature and nurture and he seems to have been blessed with exceptional nature (and, I am sure, top class parenting). Teaching a 5 year old kid mathematics at 2 as per his wiki page means he was achieving excellence before many even learnt to walk properly.
As time goes on, I find that this adage is a bit misleading. Busy people certainly seem more productive. In many cases, I believe they feel more productive, as well, which reinforces this perception to some degree.
Rohan, your point number 3 is interesting, and it is something I have been considering a lot recently. Academia definitely allows more freedom in how you allocate your time and produce results than business. This probably arises from the fact that the business world requires much faster results than academia and also requires more teamwork.
I was looking forward to my MCQ test (worth 15%, I only point out this because of your strategies in your book on how to approach tests and not to stress out about them) until it came back to me and I received a poor score (passing grade). I have never felt this shattered in my academic life, because I believe in this system. This system makes too much sense not to work.
Aside from this drug works this way, and can be used that way. That was pretty much the only technical aspect. The amount of questions I had per lecture topic was about 40. If that matters, it just seems a lot.
I was just talking to a colleague about space in our schedules. I have too much unstructured time and lean too hard on my own discipline to focus. I need more meetings and deadlines where other people rely on me to show up and deliver. In contrast, his schedule is jammed with meetings. But he feels like he needs only a bit more little unstructured time just to rest.
I consider him one of the most disciplined and accomplished people I know, yet recently, when he gained a lot of open space in his schedule for a short period, he found himself wasting his time instead of daydreaming, engaging in productive play, and doing deep work. Without the structure he flailed.
I work in a group of designers and artists and have observed the phasic nature of truly inspired creative work. However, our group is under considerable business pressure to have stable, predictable output. This creates the busyness you describe and it definitely has considerable impact on the quality of our work. While things do need to get done, it seems like all stakeholders should really delve into the create rhythms of the team and try to optimize inspired work with the need to get things done. I wonder if any of you have thought about how best to achieve this balance?
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I started running some RF reports and noticed very high average channel busy on the 2.4GHz band. I'm seeing as high as 75% average channel busy on some APs, but it's mostly between 40% - 60% average channel busy. Originally, I thought it was due to interference from non-wifi devices, but I've found that's not the case. I did some spectrum analysis tests and determined the interference is coming from our own campus APs. In my test, I disabled all APs on the floors above and below one floor that was reporting very high channel busy. Before I turned off the APs, channel busy was around 75%. After disabling the other APs in this building, channel busy dropped 40%.
2-Turn on Band steering if you dont have it(if you got dual band APS) that will move the capable 5ghz Clients to 5ghz channel which will free more the 2.4ghz channel. You have to turn it on, on each vap(virtual AP)
If you turn on 802.11d/802.11h if client does not support it, it might have problems connecting.... i dont think you will have issue if your laptops tablets are not that old.... and well if they dont have super old drivers...
Type show ap monitor ap-list ap-name and it will tell you how many access points that AP can hear. You don't want that access point to see more than two APs on the same channel as itself, more than 20 RSSI.
Also do you see any other impact on 2.4ghz ? do you see many ping drops? or you notice that 2.4ghz band its slow? or do you at all see that your wifi performance is poor? or its just that you are looking that on 2.4ghz there is a lot of utilization?
If there is no non-wifi interference, check what I told you before about how many access points connect can be seen by that AP on the same channel over 20 RSSI. If anyone is on an access point that can be seen by others, when that user Runs something like a speed test, the channel utilization will go up for everyone on the same channel as those access points, because they are in the same collision domain.
Quite a few times, coverage from access points travel further vertically than horizontally, so if you put access points right above each other instead of staggering them, you could end up with 3 above each other on the same channel. Since channel bandwidth is shared, more clients are pulled into the same collison domain and they cannot pass traffic.
One of the primary reasons my partner and I chose to not have any children is because neither of us wanted to be busy in that particular kind of way. Like, none of it was appealing and I knew it would be a trap for me.
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