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Productivity

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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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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February first is around the corner

January 27, 2007

Next week the month of February will start. Other than making me realize that the end of the first month, one-third of the first quarter, is done it marks a time of transition for me and my design business. I’ve been in business now for 19 months. I am closing in on the “24 month” [...]

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Helping keep things simple

January 14, 2007

This past week I made a few more desktop patterns based off of the book “The Laws of Simplicity.” I had been waiting with anticipation for these as my plan was to have a folder complete with all of them so that they could be randomly placed on my desktop to help reiterate the laws [...]

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