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Productivity

Concerning the Ebb and Flow of “Work”

·2 mins
Shawn Blanc writes: You have to be inspired first before you can create. You have to learn before you can teach. You have to experience before you can share. There is no shame in taking time “off” of your work, in order to learn something, experience something, and be inspired.

Pro Tip: Create Events Quickly in Calendars+

·1 min
If you’re like me then your schedule lives in Google Calendar and the computer you always have on you is running iOS. While Fantastical is my go-to calendar app on the Mac and iPhone I find that Calendars+ from Readdle is the best iPad app for Google Calendar as I need to see what availability I have before committing to an event or meeting.

Becoming the Cache

·3 mins
![Becoming the Cache](/images/rackspace/Becoming the cache.png) Throughout my career thus far I’ve grown from being an Apple employee to managing the Apple side of an consulting group to leading IT for a growing network of schools with thousands of users. Around a year ago I lost the ability to have mental clarity about everything I was managing. My work had grown from managing a single campus with a 1:1 computing, a flat network design and Apple Airports providing wireless for 450 users to implementing the plan I’d been working on. This included: