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All the Gear and No Idea

September 7, 2010

We all know the guy I mean. At the golf club, the gym, or at work. He’s the guy with the brand new set of clubs, the crisply ironed gym kit, and the top of the range PDA. He’s also the guy who can’t hit the ball, can’t operate the weight machine, and whose work [...]

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Minimalism is not Simplicity

August 31, 2010

Minimalism seems to be the new thing-that-was-the-new-thing-before-this-thing. Particular in productivity and personal development. Everyone seems to be getting a bit too amorous with dramatic pictures of an Ikea desks with nothing on them other than a MacBook Pro and an iPhone. “You get more done when there is less around”. Quite. And ever since that [...]

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The Four Phases of a Productivity Process

July 20, 2010

Rubbish title I know. But it is important. A productivity process is something we use to help ourselves become more productive. It might be a to do list. It might be the way we arrange our desk. Even the time we get up in the morning and start working. These processes go through a four [...]

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An Old Hack, a New App, and Why I Got More Done

July 5, 2010

I have a new toy. Courtesy of Minimal Mac I have a new productivity tool on my iPhone – tenplustwo. It is based on an old Merlin Mann productivity hack, which I have be inspired to revisit here. In one of the less original names around, Mann’s (10+2)*5 Hack is a clever way to squeeze [...]

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Which Tasks Do We Put Off Most Often?

May 20, 2010

So I did a bit of a personal audit. I had a look at which of the (far too many) tasks on my lists were most often put-off. It wasn’t a very scientific exercise, but I put the date each item hit my to do list on the item: “Write entertaining yet informative blog post [...]

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The Case For Everything Buckets

May 13, 2010

Yesterday I was reading the always-informative Mac Sparky blog, and was pointed towards a very interesting article by Alex Payne on our propensity these days to use computer programs as an ‘everything bucket’ in which to throw knowledge and, well, stuff into. We are talking here about the likes of Evernote, Yojimbo et al. His [...]

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Do You Really Need to Know Anything?

May 6, 2010

From the day that we are born into this world we learn. At first through play, then through graft, and finally through experience. It is part of our nature, our culture, and our society. Some of it is sub-conscious learning. A fair bit is voluntary learning. And the balance is required learning. But there has [...]

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The “What I Must Do Today” Planner

April 22, 2010

I have always felt that you should never have more than one to do system – ie. you shouldn’t have things you need to do on two independent lists. Why not? Well, duplication means you can never trust whether the list you have in your hand is up to date – “Did I e-mail that [...]

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The Future of GTD

April 13, 2010

Flicking through Twitter at the weekend I noticed an interesting post from @jessicaknows – “If GTD was the last decade, what’s this decade all about productivity-wise”. I tried to throw up some of my personal thought on this, but failed miserably to make any sort of sense in 140 characters. As such, I though as [...]

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My Process for Managing All That Information

April 8, 2010

I have being trying to streamline how I manage information. Partly because I am a little geeky, but mainly because how you manage the vast flood of information out there determines how you are able to leverage this to your advantage. If you have quicker access to better information, then you are leading the pack. [...]

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