Working from home, a coffee shop, or even a remote tropical island all sound fantastic. Combined with the entrepreneurial dream of owning your own business it might even be heaven. But here’s what building a remote company is really like. Saent is just over two years old now and has been a distributed company from… Continue reading
I often get asked, “what is your number one productivity tip?” The answer is consistency. Arriving at this answer did not come easy. I have been interested in productivity for almost a decade. I’ve read countless books and research papers on the topic. I’ve tried tons of apps and other tools. I’ve received some training… Continue reading
One of the most active Slack channels at Saent is our #reading room, where we share articles, books, and other media we come across each day. Though everyone at Saent has their own work style and habits, we all share one strong common thread: we’re voracious consumers of knowledge and we value the power of… Continue reading
Taking breaks at the right time and for the right amount of time is a key to the healthy work rhythm that Saent encourages people to follow. Breaks are important for a number of reasons, and not taking them can lead to stress, burnout, poor productivity, and poor work quality. In this guest post at… Continue reading
We announced Saent’s first conversational user interface in a blog post in January 2016. Now almost a full year later, we’ve gone through several iterations on that initial design and learned a lot along the way. In a guest post on the InVision blog, I talk about what we did right and what we did… Continue reading
Author William Powers makes a convincing call to disconnect from our devices and the internet more often in his 2010 book “Hamlet’s Blackberry.” He argues our devices, for all the good they bring to our lives, also cause a measure of harm. With the digital party just getting started, his ideas at the time were… Continue reading
In parts I and II of this series on “The 30 Minutes of Focus Challenge” we covered the why and the how. But now that you have that half hour of uninterrupted time per day, what can you do with it? You might already have some ideas about what to use this time for, but… Continue reading
One of the best ways to combat the modern issues of information overload, work stress, burnout, and poor work-life balance is through effective behavior change. But changing your behavior is hard. That’s why Saent does more than just block distractions and help you focus. Saent is designed to help coach you toward healthier and more… Continue reading
Now that you understand the why of our 30 Minutes of Focus Challenge (see part I), it’s time to look at the how: how can you carve out half an hour of completely uninterrupted time when you’re under constant attack from notifications, social media, and email? The Saent desktop app can help. Start with Saent’s… Continue reading
Can you focus for half an hour on one thing? If research by Gloria Mark is correct, there’s a good chance the answer is “no.” Office workers get interrupted every 11 minutes, while teenagers send over a 100 chat messages per day (and this was in 2010!). Focus is the fuel for getting things done… Continue reading