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Don't Declare Email Bankruptcy! Get Bit Literate Starting Now.
Duff
Episode number one of my new podcast Precision Change went live recently. Enjoy! Are you overwhelmed by information? Do you have 1000's of emails sitting in your inbox right now, many unread, all nagging at... More »
David Allen 45 Minute Free Video on GTD, i.e. Getting Things Done
Duff
Everyone geeky about GTD has probably already seen this video, but I just happened upon it today. Hat tip to Cody .
Start again: getting back on track with GTD
Duff
On Vipassana 10-day meditation retreats , there is a simple instruction given at the start of each (grueling) meditation period: "start again." It's a great instruction--so simple, so easy to forget. My Macbook recently crashed... More »
Mac productivity madness with Mark Hurst's "Good Easy"
Duff
Mark Hurst, author of Bit Literacy, shares his mac setup for maximum productivity that he calls "the Good Easy": http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/07/25/the-good-easy-on-os-x.html I'm not yet Mac geeky enough yet to comment except to say that I respect... More »
The 5 sentence email
Duff
I'm trying out a new format for email that I got from Mike Davidson: all emails replies are now five sentences or less in length. So far it's reduced that last bit of email reply... More »
Getting Things Done in times of chaos
Duff
Recently I've been blessed with extreme chaos in my life and work. It's given me an opportunity to review what's really important to me, and also to empathize with those who live perpetually in chaos... More »
Hack through corporate phone trees with Bringo
Duff
Talking to people is expensive. So large companies use complex phone trees so they don't have to talk to you. Leave it up to some tech geek to create a service that helps you cut... More »
Managing overload with books
Duff
You know it's time for a new information management strategy when you notice you have 691 items in your Amazon.com wishlist...more books than you'll probably read in the next 30-40 years. :) Well, that was... More »
GTD: the world's best technique of karma yoga for knowledge work
Duff
I went to the GTD Roadmap seminar yesterday in Denver. At some point it struck me how GTD is the world's best technique of karma yoga for knowledge work. A glossary for the unitiated: GTD... More »
48/12 rule for Energy Management and Maximum Productivity
Duff
Simple idea, big results: work as fast and hard as possible for 48 minutes, then completely break and relax for 12. Repeat 4-8 times daily: http://successbeginstoday.org/wordpress/2006/09/the-power-of-48-minutes/
GTD
April 2008 