Time Management

The Art of Time Estimation

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Ah, perhaps the quintessential question in a world where we are starved for time: how long will it take? It could be anything really: a project, a meeting, a visit to the dentist, picking up the kids from school, or going to the grocery store. Working in software, I continually have to answer this question […]

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Time Management Guest Post

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Yesterday I wrote a guest post titled Time Management: Sometimes Things Change over at the Diary of a Four-Hour-a-Weeker. In this post I expand on my rethinking of time management. I discuss how Stephen Covey’s Time Management Matrix can be recast into a Life Management Matrix to reflect the principles of The 4-Hour Workweek. Lastly […]

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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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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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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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Google Calendar From The Desktop

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Before the weekend I discussed how I have deeply synchronized my desktop email client with Gmail. I did this because Gmail acts as my central mailbox for all of my email accounts, of which I have many. It should probably come as no surprise that my love affair with Google does not end with email. […]

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