Category: Productivity

Productivity and “The Beginner’s Mind”

Here's a fantastic post from Douglas Johnston @ a million monkeys typing on how to get out of the trap of trying to use too much technology and overcomplicating the process of time managment: a million monkeys typing | The...

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How to overcome “GeekBlock”

From SecretGeek Just as writers are prone to writer's block, programmers are prone to GeekBlock. Maybe we can't find the cause of a particular bug,or maybe we just can't stop surfing the web when we know there's things we should...

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Non-obvious SlickRun feature

SlickRun is a Windows productivity app that has changed my life. I've been using it happily for months to quickly launch programs and fire off emails with a few keystrokes, but today I stumbled upon a nifty little feature that I...

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GtD internal mailing list

I've enjoyed exploring GtD, but I've found in the past that sometimes when I share my enthusiasm for next actions and what not with people, their eyes glaze over. Some people really take a liking to this stuff and some people...

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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Commencement Speech at Stanford

Pretty interesting and inspirational. If I had to boil it down to the 10 seconds, I'd say it's about doing what you love and living you life like every day is your last day. But like a lot of things, distilling it down to the...

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Dee Hock quote

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock

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My latest bash toy: a “cd” replacement

I just made this little cd function that is a drop-in replacement for the builtin bash cd command. The idea was to make it really easy and productive to navigate around to commonly used directories in bash without forcing someone...