From the monthly archives:

April 2007

I updated an earlier post (2007 April 7) today, the one entitled Another Way of Organizing Tasks. Here’s the new text I added:
“After working with the new set of categories for a while, I went back to the GTD-ish ones today. It can be hard to break old habits, and I have used the GTD-ish [...]

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A friend sent a great email to me this morning detailing some of the shortfalls he sees in articles at some tech sites he visits.
The complaint:

Too many sites write at either too high of a level (assuming you are as much of an expert as the writer), and/or
Too many sites write at such a dumbed [...]

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Working on the Right things

by Bruce Keener on April 25, 2007

in Perspective, Productivity

Of the hundreds of books I have read over the years, I can only think of one that was really life-changing for me: Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
It has been years since I read it (time to re-read it), but I still vividly recall a few things from it:

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Is GTD a dying trend?

by Bruce Keener on April 24, 2007

in Getting Things Done

If you search for the term “getting things done (GTD),” you’ll find hundreds of sites that discuss the phrase, coined by David Allen. My website is one of the ones that will show up in your search (generally several pages down unless you add the term PDA to the search).
It almost seems as if every [...]

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Are spam filters TOO good?

by Bruce Keener on April 24, 2007

in Miscellaneous

Scobleizer has a post on his spam filters sometimes catching as many as 10,000 spam comments a day!
So it pays to have a spam filter, and the one he talks about is really good because you have a good bit of control over it (I use it on this blog).
However, not all spam filters are [...]

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