I subscribe to podcasts from This American Life, Radio Lab, Kasper Hauser, They Might Be Giants and Elvis Costello — with dozens more waiting for me to simply click on “subscribe.” My friends are prolific video makers. Sitting beside my bed are books by David Mitchell, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Dickens and George Orwell. Also comics by Bryan K. Vaughn, Steve Ditko and Alan Moore. On my table are CDs by Buffalo Springfield, Prince and New Order, as well as a few mix CDs. I’m performing one sketch show and writing another. Netflix is sending me “Carnal Knowledge” and “An Inconvenient Truth” tomorrow. I’ve yet to watch any episodes of “The Wire,” “Battlestar Galactica” or any reality show starring [...]
I love 43folders.com, a blog that explores ways to improve how productive you are. It’s where I discovered the book Getting Things Done, which I enjoy. I recently discovered that 43folders has a fun wiki. Fun as far as wikis go.
What’s so fun about it? Well, although the sections are primarily designed to discuss the potentially dry and boring topic of “personal productivity,” they’re also titled playfully. Samples: Working while standing, Keep your pen, Just buy two, Act Randomly and Out the door.
I mean, it’s not HILARIOUS fun. It’s “my, what an endearing and eccentric professor” kind of fun. But I like a lot of the tips I found there, and I [...]
If you’ve talked to me for more than 10 minutes the past week you’ve heard me mention how I’m reading Getting Things Done, a book on better organizing your time. I’m halfway through and while I do think it’s a helpful, sensible book — I also find it hilarious because of the incredibly vague “business” specifics these type of books use as examples.
How good could that conference potentially be? How effective could the training program be, or the structure of your executives’ compensation package? How inspiring is the essay you’re writing? How motivating the staff meeting? How functional the reorganization?
On one hand, I understand why David Allen, the author, chooses such non-examples [...]
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