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Productivity

Over-thinking it

September 24, 2007

What a revelation I had this morning while IM’ing with my friend and collaborator Jonathan Brown. I was asking him a programming question in relation to a project I am working on. After I asked a very detailed question, he shoots back “you’re over-thinking it.” In that moment came a flood of clarity. I am [...]

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A little structure can help

September 21, 2007

I find that when you are an operation of one person lack of structure can work out. Flying “by the seat of your pants” can work because you only have yourself to blame when things don’t work out. On the other hand with each additional person you add to the mix more structure, defined roles, [...]

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Infrastructure

September 12, 2007

I ride my bike to work. On my ride today I passed by a crew of workers inside deep holes in the ground. They were obviously working on underground infrastructure–things like electricity and plumbing that service the houses and buildings around us. As I continued on my way to work I rode over several large [...]

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Its all about the Focus

May 16, 2007

I recently attended a 2-day GTD seminar.  I must say that it is very different to have the GTD system presented to you versus what you get out of the book. Don’t get me wrong, you can read the book and “get it.” However, having someone there to answer your questions about the system (David [...]

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Constraints and half-assing it

March 14, 2007

Well this week I am feeling it.  Constraints and half-assing it that is. Last week I watched part two of an interview that Merlin Mann had with Jonathon Coulton and one of the things they were talking about was constraints and how constraints, when you’re working inside them, actually help you produce great work or [...]

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A whole ramble of thoughts

March 7, 2007

This is my first attempt at speaking the text of my blog. I am using a headset with voice dictation software. The title of whole ramble of thoughts is somewhat appropriate seeing that I am going to try to speak about many things here. First is the foray into voice dictation software.  I have used [...]

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Communication Bandwidth

March 1, 2007

We all have ways, or modes, in which we communicate. Depending on who you are communicating with and what context you are in will determine how you communicate. Modes most common in my life are: email instant message cellphone video conference in person Interestingly each of these modes of communication uses a certain amount of [...]

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Due dates, tasks, and delegation

February 21, 2007

Experiencing major bouts of unproductive time as of late. The problem is not my systems—I use KGTD, a variant of the Getting Things Done System by David Allen, and that is a major help. Where I seem to be having issues is not having a pattern to my time usage. By “pattern to time usage” [...]

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