Creativity and Productivity
I actually have a folder in my browser called Creativity and Productivity.
On the “productive” side, I have sites like Lifehacker, Fast Company, Freelance Switch, and Harvard Business Review. On the creative side, I have Dear Photograph and a Flicker stream from a photographer. Stuff that falls in the middle: TED, You Are Not So Smart, and Brain Pickings. {And let me apologize now for giving you these links and sending you off into the wild Internet without a net.}
Now, you might be tempted to think these things are unrelated. But they’re not. I go to this folder when I need a mental break or inspiration. Sometimes my inspiration is a new program; sometimes it’s the story found in a photograph; sometimes it’s in something I never knew.
Of course, if I just want to goof off, there’s always Facebook!