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I adapted the color scheme of the blog and the entire exploring the black box website. For those unfamiliar with this scheme, it comes courtesy of an amazing designer named Ethan Schoonover. His solarized scheme, of which I am using the light version, is beautiful. In addition, it makes sense
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A quick design change I had been looking for an even more sober design than "Black Box" had to date for a long time. I'm terrible at CSS, so I'm entirely dependent on the goodwill of the good people of SquareSpace. So when they
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This is a quick break from my "Workflow" book review schedule. I seldom put something as intensely personal out there, on the internet. Actually, I do believe this is the very first time. This is an exception, but I wanted to share this because I have the feeling
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A quick aside: About my review As you may have noticed by now, I'm not really reviewing Kourosh Dini's most recent book "Workflow: Beyond Productivity" in a traditional manner. As a book, it appears to have an epic objective, which is to provide a
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In his excellent new book "Workflow: Beyond Productivity", Kourosh Dini states the following: "Any aspect of organization, be it task, checklist, container, memorized concepts, or otherwise decays in time as it relates to an intention." If you think a bit about it, it is very true.
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With all my OCD like behavior in terms of the proper application of GTD and my relatively rigid adherence to its workflows, do I actually get to be creative at all? When discussing aspects such as the GTD workflows with people and explaining how I implement GTD, it's
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An offhand remark in one of the comments posted by one of the participants in the Linked-In group "Getting Things Done - Network of GTD enthusiasts" triggered this post. In his comment, the reader refers to a tool called "Toggl" which allows you to measure and
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Google has announced it is retiring Google Reader on July 1st. An outcry has been heard across the internet. First they take over an ecosystem, then they destroy it ... the Borg could not have done a better job. Assimilation, then destruction. I was among those who cried out over the
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I am assuming (most) analysts are not stupid A lot has been said about the markets' reaction to Apple's financial statements for the past quarter. It's quite interesting and even a bit baffling if you take in account that this is one of the most
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The investment pays off OmniFocus is my particular GTD tool. While it has a significant and steep learning curve, I like what the tool can do for you once you get it configured right. Granted, it does take a while to figure out how it best functions for you. On
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Admiration and jealousy We admire people who appear to be able to perform certain feats as if with no considerable effort. And where there is admiration, there is often jealousy. We tend to get jealous of people whose life is apparently without effort. We look at these people, and we
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Information is all around us I've likened it to wifi or mobile network radiation. It's there, but you are not really aware of it most of the time. Most of it will be completely irrelevant to your activities of that given day, or even your life.