May 2008

Mastering the ToDo List

The chief problem many of us face when we make our ToDo lists is that we try to list everything that we’re thinking about doing. The result is that we end up with lists that are far too long to actually complete – and, despite how much we actually get done, we focus on what [...]

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Is Backpack Worth the Time and Money?

The short answer: For most users, Backpack is worth the time and money. Backpack is an online service offered by 37Signals that makes organizing your information incredibly easy. Backpack lets you make pages which can contain any combination of notes, to-dos, images, files, etc. You can keep these pages to yourself or share them with [...]

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Remembering the Fallen on Memorial Day

Today is Memorial Day in the United States. The holiday commemorates those who have fallen in military service for their countries. Many of you already know all of this. These types of holidays used to be another day off for me. While I appreciated, in general, what those who had fallen had done for me, [...]

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What’s the Difference Between Offline Friends and Online “Friends”?

This week’s Food for Thought: What’s the difference between offline friends and online “friends”? (If you answered that online friends are ones you made online, you get 10 Smartass points. Proceed directly to the university nearest you and sign up as a philosophy major with said points.) Sure, it’s a Web1.0 type of question, but [...]

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The Weekly Productivity Planner 1.0: Comments on a Bad Design

UPDATE: The new design for the Weekly Productivity Planner is Out! Hooray! Pick it up here: Sometimes the best thing to do as a designer is to recognize and admit that one of your designs is flawed. The Weekly Productivity Planner is flawed. I’ll tell you what I was trying to do, how it passed [...]

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Strategic Withdrawal: Quitting for the Rest of Us

There’s an interesting trend going on in the productivity niche. For the longest time, the focus of productivity has been on how we can get more done. Here recently, the trend is on quitting. That we’re at this stage in the dialect is fairly predictable. After years of being led by acolytes of the corporate [...]

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What Makes an Act Courageous?

This last week has been a bit strange on the writing front – I’ve mentally written a lot of posts, but I haven’t actually written them. Now we’ll just have to see whether they actually materialize into something worth reading. The reason for the strangeness of the week has been due to me being on [...]

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Make a Difference: Imagine, Then Act!

We live in a world where tragedy befalls millions on a daily basis. The world may be better than it once was, but that doesn’t mean that it’s were it could be. It’s not hard to imagine how the world could be better. But it’s hard to make the world we imagine a reality. What [...]

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Give a Mother a Space of Her Own for Mother’s Day

In my last post I ran through a list of Big Days that I’ve done a horrible job of honoring. One Big Day that’s not on the list is Mother’s Day. Of course, if we had children, it would be on the list. I also mentioned getting thoughtful gifts for Big Days. Well, the folks [...]

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