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Inbox Hundreds

So I’m a big big talker about GTD and Inbox Zero and all the clever modern knowledge productivity hoo-hah. But, I have to confess, my gmail inbox, which is where my personal mail goes, has had hundreds of messages in it for years. At one point I did manage to set up some really aggressive [...]

Berkun Stuff

Scott Berkun’s The Art of Project Management gets raves all over the place and I’ve had a copy (only partially-read) for awhile now in my ever-growing ToRead stack. I’ve also had a copy of his book The Myths of Innovation (much shorter and written in short snacky bits) floating around, too. And, in [...]

Need More Time

Tips to make more time in your day.

Decluttering

I’m still on my now nearly decade-long decluttering effort. At long last I think I am starting to see some clear space! Having the floors on two levels replaced this summer helped. Everything moved out of each room on those levels that was anywhere near the floor. Now, a bunch of that stuff [...]

Three Random Links

Three random links from my delicious feed.

Personal Medical Records

How to best organize medical billing and other paperwork in one’s personal filing system?

Life Updates

A few updates:

On the home front: We are having the floors on the top two floors of our townhouse completely replaced. It is a huge project trying to get ready.  Everything will have to be moved out of each room. So we’re trying to purge as much stuff as we can and move stuff we’re [...]

Too Many Books

Cover of Europe: A History

I’ve written a version of this post at least half a dozen times, but here we go again..

We need to get rid of some more books in our house. We’re having new floors put in on the main level and the upstairs in a few weeks, which means that [...]

Recently at Mom Spa

Recently over at Mom Spa I posted about:

GTD after adding a kid to the mix
Vulnerabilities in our electrical grid and other infrastructure, and
A quick happy birthday to the World Wide Web.

Sterling Closes Viridian

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I was never on Bruce Sterling’s Viridian design mailing list, although I did come across pieces from it from time to time. Back in November he posted the last Viridian note. I found it very thought-provoking – especially with regard to his critique of overly-thrifty consumption patterns.

Hairshirt-green is the simple-minded inverse of 20th-century [...]