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 [...]
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 [...]
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:
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 [...]
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 [...]