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Ha! Check this study! They prove that if you wait long enough to buy a new computer, you will actually work faster on that new PC because of Moore's Law. Or something like that. I'm a bit scientifically challenged...As they say themselves: "You could go to the beach for 2 years, then come back and buy a new computer and compute for a year, and get the same amount of work done."
They also calculate the optimal and maximal slackage. Now that's getting things done!
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Eric Sinclair attended a GTD Connect Circle in Chicago. These meetings are ongoing discussions furthering the work being done on the GTD seminars. Very interesting (when do they come to the Netherlands?) and Eric created a mindmap around these meetings. Very interesting topics and questions in this map. It is made in Freemind, the free mindmap software you can download from Sourceforge.
So does anybody else visit these kind of circles? I never heard of them but it sounds interesting to meet up with others to talk about personal productivity, talking and learning from each other.
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When dealing with your personal productivity in an electronic workspace, email is practically everywhere. For me, almost all communication goes through email. Actually, my Intray on my desk has been empty for a week now. I get very few mail on paper, magazines go straight into a "to read" basket and every other little scrap of paper gets dealt with right away. Because it takes less than two minutes to drop some form over at a co-worker's desk, read a leaflet on something and decide what to do with it or get those receipts from businesslunches and gas and make sure they get to the Office Manager.
But email, that's a whole other story. Actually, over at David Allen's website, Julie Daniel wrote a fine piece on the different types of email that can and will linger in your Inbox. She describes the following sorts of email...
More >>12 01 06 - 23:34 - Permanent link - one comment
After writing for more than a year, I feel it's time to let you know which articles are most popular here. Also for new readers (welcome!) to get a feel on what I write about and what goes on here. For this top 10 I use the statisticsapp Mint. If you have a weblog, I can highly recommend this stats-program. It gives you a variety of information without becoming too cluttered like other (free) counters. Best feature: You will get a RSS feed for referrers to your site. Excellent...
Alas, let us continue to The Top 10 WTNA Blogposts!
More >>11 01 06 - 23:48 - Permanent link - four comments
Maybe not directly related to your personal productivity but I do feel this article touches some points you can incorporate in your own thinking about productivity. If you present in public every now and then, I can recommend the article "Presentation Zen" by former Apple employee Gerry Reynolds. He discusses the presentation style, slides and gesture of both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and compares this with the some of the Zen aesthetic values
This really resonates with me, not only because of my earlier post on GTD and Tai Chi, but also on other levels. If you think about the GTD-principles, they really do fit in the Zen values don't they? Just let the five phases roll in you head (Collection, Process, Organize, Review, Do) while looking at this list and see the connections and feel the logic. Every single thing I do, even the simplest action as cleaning my Inbox (well it used to be not that simple...) really comes down to these values. Choosing the right software, hardware or online service let's you review those with at least values like simplicity and elegance.
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This is an article which is part of my weblog "What's the Next Action". It deals with everything GTD and the five phases of projectplanning as written by Dave Allen in his book "Getting Things Done".
The previous article on this blog is called 'Best wishes for 2006!'.
The next article on this blog is called 'Top 10 articles on Whatsthenextaction.com'.
You can find all the articles on the frontpage.
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