Archive for April, 2008

Spoon Bending

Wednesday, April 30th, 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 was reading the Attraction Mind Map blog today, mostly because of a link to there from another blog I read regularly. I really liked […]

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How Fine Grained Should Your To-Do List Be?

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

In Getting Things Done, Dave Allen suggests that we must always be working from lists of actionable tasks. The “actionable” part is a powerful distinction. As Allen points out, we often end up with big chunky activities like “Marketing Campaign” on our to-do lists. The problem is that this is not actionable as you cannot […]

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links for 2008-04-28

Monday, April 28th, 2008

BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter
BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want. The point system itself is a great idea and ensures fairness in distributing shipping costs - an idea that other community sites could leverage.
(tags: books exchange […]

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Productivity Nightmares

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Anyone who has followed this blog from the beginning will know that my wife and I are big fans of cooking, and the Food Network on television. One show that I particularly enjoy is Kitchen Nightmares. The show features acclaimed chef Gordon Ramsay:
In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a troubleshooter […]

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Number 1 Productivity Practice

Monday, April 28th, 2008

You may have noticed that I have been missing in action for a couple weeks. The culprit behind this absence? Multiple projects and an ongoing problem with perfectionism. With respect to the projects, I am working on two major activities at work, one of which is completely new, uncharted territory with the requisite, and inefficient, […]

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links for 2008-04-22

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Sleepy Dog Labs - Bathtub Cleaning Drill Brush
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing with power tools! Sometimes the most obvious hacks elude me, and this is a case in point. Why am I doing the scrubbing?
(tags: cleaning lifehacks tools)

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Top 5 Life Sutra Posts

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

I feel like a band releasing a greatest hits CD! I don’t know if I like the idea of “recycling” old material, but with analytics it is so easy to track one’s greatest posts on a blog so I thought I would share what has been the most popular material on the Life Sutra up […]

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links for 2008-04-10

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Seth’s Blog: Why downloading Firefox is like getting into college
Another great insight by Seth Godin: Firefox users and more empowered than others. Visitors to your website who use Firefox should potentially be treated differently than everyone else.
(tags: firefox marketing blogging)

Guest Shortlist: Randy Pausch - Borders - Books, Music and Movies
Randy Pausch, of the famous “Last […]

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Productivity Killer: Perfection

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Waiting for perfect is a lousy strategy.- Seth Godin

 
One well known issue in software development productivity is the problem of gold plating. Gold plating occurs when someone wants their product to be as good as possible and this sense of product quality takes precedence over development speed. It’s not just software development, the desire […]

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Letting Go

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.  - Friedrich von Schiller German dramatist & poet (1759 - 1805)

 
You know, I hear a lot of quotes and sayings like the one above. So many great people, famous people, and would be mentors extolling us to “follow your dreams”, and “don’t give up until you reach […]

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