19 hours ago
deusx : Read It Later: Save Your One Read Wonders - "Eliminate cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. Think of it as a ’staging area’ for bookmarks."
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16 days ago
deusx : iconocla.st -- a weblog by Schuyler D. Erle - ""When you put a thing on your to-do list, you are making a committment to do it," he says to me. "Meaning you aren't going to do some other things." He pauses. "So you have to choose between those things. Now, why do yo
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22 days ago
deusx : The Big Rewrite - ChadFowler.com Rails, Ruby, Software, and Stuff - "But by making it a Big Bang release, you’ve maximized the chances that you’ll be behind schedule when you get to the end ... Imagine going to the hospital for a kidney transplant, and before and during the surgery saying to the surgeon: “Oh, a
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1 month ago
deusx : Tinderbox as a Daybook - Jack Baty - "Inspired by the post at but she’s a girl..., I thought I’d jot down a few of my own notes on how I too use Tinderbox as a Daybook."
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Middle Management Holding Back Enterprise 2.0 Adoption - Funny, I've always thought that Middle Management is the source of the best power users.
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Linkorama : Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List? - Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we use it is up to us.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : The flip side to a Facebook crackdown - 39% of workers aged between 18-24 would consider quitting their jobs if their employer put a full ban on social networking sites - and 80% of the 1,000 surveyed do access such sites at work.
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Linkorama : Most companies who try to do Enterprise 2.0 will fail - And it will be for these reasons in no particular order:
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3 month ago
43folders : Linda Stone: Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List? - Living on The Huffington Post - via http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/12/linda-stone-on-time.html
veen : Linda Stone: Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List? - Living on The Huffington Post - "How to switch from managing time to managing attention? Here are some of the suggestions I've collected so far..."
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3 month ago
Linkorama : The Arc of Engineering - “Arc” in any case conveys the essential sense: that system quality (however you wish to define that) rises over time to a peak value and then starts to decline.
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4 month ago
deusx : Isolator - "When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand."
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4 month ago
mmb : Minddriven: The fastest ToDo List is a ToDo Album … - Minddriven: The fastest ToDo List is a ToDo Album … via To-do List: Keep a Cameraphone Photo Album To-do List [via]
deusx : Minddriven: The fastest ToDo List is a ToDo Album ... - "Whenever I need it, it is easier to find the nearest digital camera than pen and paper."
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way? - Here’s a three-step plan for allocating your time wisely—and strategically.
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5 month ago
deusx : Freedom, OS X Networking Freedom Software - "Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time." Claims to require a reboot to re-enable networking early.
factoryjoe : Freedom, OS X Networking Freedom Software - Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At t
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5 month ago
Linkorama : 13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits - “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” - Mark Twain
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.
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7 month ago
43folders : The Autumn of the Multitaskers - voa df via rands
adamrg : The Autumn of the Multitaskers
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8 month ago
deusx : Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work - "Indeed the evidence for the 8 hour day, 5 days a week has been around and in practice since 1926"
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8 month ago
deusx : To Do Widget (for Mac OS X) - "To Do is a lightweight and fast widget to manage tasks. Thanks to Mac OS X Leopard it integrates with iCal and Mail."
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8 month ago
adamrg : Year in Review: The 70 Best Lifehacks of 2007 - Lifehack.org - A pretty good list of ideas to make your life function better.
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8 month ago
gleuschk : The Mythical 5% - very similar things could be said about mathematicians
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Information Overload Costs - He estimates that such disruptions cost the U.S. economy $650 billion in 2006.
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11 month ago
deusx : Taskpaper - "TaskPaper is a simple to-do list that's surprisingly adept. Unlike the competition, TaskPaper's text based interface offers you paper-like simplicity and ease of use."
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11 month ago
deusx : Taskpaper Vim - "This package contains a Vim syntax file and file-type plugin for the simple format used by TaskPaper"
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