Archive for February, 2008

Crowdsourcing With Kluster

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

First time here? If you would like to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I came across a site this morning called Kluster:
kluster is a place to harness the power of community collaboration to get stuff done. everyone has […]

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Tools For The Mobile Office

Monday, February 25th, 2008

The author of the Outlaw Design Blog is planning on spending the next few months “living and working from the sandy beaches of Costa Rica”. Sounds a lot like the concept of Liberation that Timothy Ferriss advocates (and seems to live) in The 4-Hour Workweek. To support this experiment in telecommuting, Danny Outlaw (which I […]

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Multitasking & Stress Reduction Part 1

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Editor’s Note: This is the first post in a multi-part series on multitasking and stress reduction.
About a month ago I wrote on multitasking, or rather on how people do not actually multitask in the truest sense of the word. When it comes to people, the term multitasking is most accurately used to describe switching continuously […]

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I’ve Been Asked To Edit The 4-Hour Workweek!

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Yes, it’s true. Author Tim Ferriss has invited me to edit his best selling book The 4-Hour Workweek. Here’s the thing: he has basically extended this invitation to everyone! For those who wish to contribute, Ferriss is collecting ideas via an open wiki for the next edition of the book:
I want an improved and expanded […]

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Personal Task Manager

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Last week I wrote a guest post over at Hilary Catherall’s blog on the topic of tracking how one spends their time, an idea I have written about in the past. Specifically, I discuss using an open source time tracking application called Personal Task Manager which can track both your activities and computer application usage. […]

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Your Possessions Own You

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Last week I was watching Fight Club (very cool movie!). I was struck by one line in particular. At one point in the movie, the character Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt) says:
You don’t own the things-the things own you.
Source: Fight Club
Now I think Durden was making a broad commentary on our corporately controlled […]

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The Life Management Matrix

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

In my post on Rethinking Time Management, I introduced the Four Quadrants of Life Management. I noted a similarity, at least in form but I think also in substance, between this Life Management Matrix and the Time Management Matrix in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Yesterday, I was reading a post on Time […]

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The Other Lecture

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Randy Pausch is a well known and admired educator in computer science circles. In September of 2006, Professor Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was told he had between three to six months of decent health left. Later that month, he gave a rather inspiring lecture at Carnegie Mellon University entitled Really Achieving Your […]

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Simplifying The Issue Of Time-Wasters

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Hilary Catherall, co-founder and the president of technology startup DOMITECH, L.L.C., a revolutionary web development company. DOMITECH’s projects so far include www.city-dweller.com and www.saneliving.org. Hilary still holds down her day job for now, and just started seriously applying the principles from The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW) […]

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Rethinking Time Management

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Sometimes the basis for positive change in our lives comes from questioning or throwing out conventional assumptions or “rules of thumb”. The 4-Hour Workweek is a great example, where author Timothy Ferriss questions the so-called deferred life plan which we all know: work hard now and defer living your dreams until you retire. I would […]

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