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1 month ago
in My Scandelous Confession and A Royal Rant About GTD on The Cranking Widgets Blog
There's a lot to be said for a yellow legal pad and a few Post-It notes. I agree that a little planning and time management is a good thing, but when you have to schedule time to do planning and time management, there's something wrong. A few words of advices:
1) JUST SAY NO - to yourself or to anyone else who wants a piece of time that you don't have to give. Sometimes the volume of tasks reaches a point of critical mass whereby no amount of "management" will get them done, and you just have to start saying no to new stuff, and maybe to existing stuff as well.
2) K.I.S.S. - see previous remarks about the yellow legal pad and the Post-It notes. Ink and paper are the most simple method of keeping track of the things that need getting done. Might actually be all you need!
3) TECHNOLOGY COULD BE THE PROBLEM - It's so easy to hit the Evernote button that you will find yourself putting stuff on The List that isn't really necessary. If you never got to it, how important was it, really?
Remember, tech has gotten better/smarter/faster... but we have remained human! Take things at a more human speed, and there will be no need for stress, guilt or elaborate systems for personal productivity, the maintenance of which becomes yet another thing on your To Do list.
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1) JUST SAY NO - to yourself or to anyone else who wants a piece of time that you don't have to give. Sometimes the volume of tasks reaches a point of critical mass whereby no amount of "management" will get them done, and you just have to start saying no to new stuff, and maybe to existing stuff as well.
2) K.I.S.S. - see previous remarks about the yellow legal pad and the Post-It notes. Ink and paper are the most simple method of keeping track of the things that need getting done. Might actually be all you need!
3) TECHNOLOGY COULD BE THE PROBLEM - It's so easy to hit the Evernote button that you will find yourself putting stuff on The List that isn't really necessary. If you never got to it, how important was it, really?
Remember, tech has gotten better/smarter/faster... but we have remained human! Take things at a more human speed, and there will be no need for stress, guilt or elaborate systems for personal productivity, the maintenance of which becomes yet another thing on your To Do list.
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4 months ago
in Hippo Love @ Zooz on digitaltodd
Hmmm, that might be a mommy and a baby, er, teenager hippo. There is a part at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando where you can look at the hippos under water. One side of their pond is glass, and you go down these stairs and stand there and watch them hang out in the water. Very cool!
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digitatodd
I will check on that but I am pretty sure I was told they are a pair, not mom and child. Regardless it's a great facility and hippo's are fascinating!
4 months ago
in The best Wordpress mobile Phone plugin! on digitaltodd
wow, that does look good! I'm going to have to check this on the Crackberry as well.
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digitatodd
Well I'll have to have a look and see what it looks like on your site too.
I agree with all points in principle, but whether it is practical for someone to do any or all of them boils down to what people want out of life. (There is something to be said about pairing down and finding more balance though, I have an interesting post in the works that talks about some research on work/life balance vs finding career success.)
I'll probably be writing a bit about tech's role in productivity as well. It can play a big one, but it has to get out of your way and "work like you do" in order for it to really help. That's the hardest part about being a developer who cares about the experience and not just writing code.
Thanks for stopping by and chiming in!
-Andy