Tag Archives: information management

From Yojimbo to Evernote to Yojimbo to … (Mac)

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Bruce Keener

In my recent reading of some of Michael Hyatt’s articles on Evernote, it occurred to me that maybe I should give Evernote another try. I signed up for premium access to it when it first came out, but then got … Continue reading →

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It Was Too Much for Me, Yet, Not Enough [Information]

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Bruce Keener

Around the first of the year, I woke up to the realization that I was wasting huge chucks of time taking in information of no value. Not only was I wasting time, I even started to feel less in control … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on Time

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Bruce Keener

Over the recent holidays, I caught myself daydreaming about my own funeral. I pictured one of my friends saying “That Keener sure did know a lot.” With another friend saying “Yes, but it would have been better if he known … Continue reading →

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How Much of Your Data do You Really Want in The Cloud?

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Bruce Keener

With WikiLeaks and The Gawker Incident so fresh in our minds, many of us are wondering just how secure supposedly secure data really is. (If you are not up-to-speed on what happened with Gawker, see my previous post and its … Continue reading →

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Forbes and Atwood on Password Security [re: the Gawker Incident]

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Bruce Keener

The recent hack of Gawker Media sites has compromised over a million passwords. Although I had not commented on Lifehacker in a long time, my password and email (from the one or two times when I did comment) were among … Continue reading →

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Reminder About Entrenched Thinking

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Science is the best tool we have for discovery and learning, because it encourages us to modify our theories when they don’t prove out. As with any human endeavor, though, science is imperfect. Lee Smolin gives a great example of … Continue reading →

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Yojimbo: An Organizer for Mac Folks

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Bruce Keener

When I got my iMac around Christmas 2006, I began searching for the most popular Mac software. Within a couple of weeks, I purchased Yojimbo 1.3 (Jan 2, 2007), because the reviews indicated that it was one of the Mac … Continue reading →

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The Benefit of Deferred Reading

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Do you have a “Read Later” list, and/or a pile of printed articles that you plan to get to later? If you are sort of ADHD, like me and many others who live with a computer/smartphone/iPad, you probably have a … Continue reading →

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Why Twitter, Facebook, etc Seem So Addictive

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Many theories have been offered for why Twitter and Facebook and [fill in the blank] seem so addictive. One of the theories that makes a lot of sense to me was recently offered by Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational. … Continue reading →

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Brain Linkz

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Bruce Keener

An excellent list of Why Intelligent People Fail. Hat tip: Matt Mullenweg. Great, practical discussion of How To Focus. The author asserts that our problem is not so much in managing information, but in managing our attention. I agree wholeheartedly. … Continue reading →

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