Grad Hacker

 
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I’ve written a couple posts about why I think working on important stuff is a lot better for your blood pressure than working in context. In fact, slowly, I realized I didn’t really need contexts at all. 
One evening this week, I took a dose of my own medicine to great success, and [...]

 
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Let’s get this out in the open once so we don’t have to mention it again and again: We are all busy. We all have too much stuff that we either have to do for ourselves, have to do for someone else or would like to do sometime. The first two categories can [...]

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There’s something dangerous about a bunch of small, un-intimidating next actions on a single list. The things you should be doing are generally uncomfortable, larger, more intimidating than the things that aren’t that important. The things you should be doing are generally much fewer in number than the things that aren’t that [...]

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In the quest for productivity, blogs with the word “hack” in the title and other similar literature often end up discussing in detail ways to increase efficiency. What does that mean, efficiency? Efficiency is most often some metric for gauging output per unit time; how much work you are getting done in a [...]

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I have become obsessed with my notecard for the day: a single 3×5 sheet that carries with it what i need to do today (a very small and realistic number), often a calendar of events (so I know when the free time is that I can do my tasks for the day), and [...]

Photo by: pshutterbugAs I mentioned in a long review, I’ve been using Todoist since August. I’ll have you know that Todoist and I are still doing quite well. So well in fact that I recently started forking over $3/month for the premium membership. I’ll share my thoughts on that another day.
Today, however, I want to [...]

I found an interesting un-GTD GTD recommendation on an IT management website (via the great ultimate gtd index). The article is titled “Getting Things Done in 60 seconds” and the author teaches a few (60 seconds worth) of GTD fundamentals and if you like them you have to promise to buy the book and delve [...]

I’m going to put my question-GTD hat on again.
One premise of GTD is that as far as your mind goes, all open loops are created equal. That is, no matter the time, place, or importance, your mind will focus on an open loop as though it is important, and this is the time and [...]

The overemphasis in the GTD world of priorities being last place in the four-fold criteria for doing is, in my opinion, not going to help you get important things done. Merlin over on 43folders wrote a bit about why priorities are last place, and as sacrilegious as this may sound in the GTD world, I [...]