katieben

Hi - I wanted a ticket earlier today, and ended up with an extra. If you'd like it, please email me at katiebenedetto at gmail. Thanks! :)

I'd like to go to the Quantified Self 2012 conference, which relates to my startup, though it's sold out. Is anyone selling a ticket? Thanks. :)

Does anyone use SolidWorks for web design?

I'm a web dev/designer, currently using Photoshop CS3. I don't know CS5, so not sure what I'm missing - would upgrading to CS5 noticeably improve my work or workflow (assuming I learn how to use it)?

Do the top web designers consider CS5 necessary? If you mock up sites in CSS instead of Photoshop, do you use CS5 for other important things, or are other programs (or older versions of Photoshop) just as good?

Who's going to WordCamp San Francisco next weekend? HN meetup, anyone?

Who would be interested in getting together to discuss profit-generating websites, of the one-person variety?

Specifically, I mean websites that do something useful and generate revenue, but aren't "startups" - just lifestyle websites that generate revenue over time and are maintained by one person, and make money slowly.

I'm a developer/designer, working on several websites of this variety. If you'd be interested in starting such a group, or if you know of a group that already exists in the Bay area, I'd love to hear about it! Cheers! (:

If there isn't one out there already, someone build it and I'll be your first paying customer. (:

When people say that multitasking is bad for productivity, I understand the arguments - but I think the real question is not whether it's bad, but to what extent it's bad.

There's downtime in most things:

- Waiting for software to be installed - Waiting for a process to finish - Waiting for a slow website to load - A client puts our phone call hold for a few minutes - Waiting for pasta to cook - Waiting for a document to finish printing

Obviously NO multitasking in some situations, like software being installed (when you know it's going to take half an hour), is less productive than "multitasking" (filling that hour with something else).

Most multitasking articles seem to be arguments for why multitasking is bad in general, rather than a detailed discussion of what's productive multitasking and what isn't. I'd like to see some articles on for what sized waiting blocks a human brain should context-switch, or how we can fill this waiting blocks with activities that aren't too distracting from the original task. References? Thoughts?