This week, I’m a happy geek: I was able to persuade my boss to buy me a Mac as my new workstation. And although Apple freshened the notebook line in interval between the order being placed and it actually arriving at my house, I’m very happy with the 17″ MacBook Pro as-is. But the point [...]
An early comment in this blog by my dad took issue with my subtitle, “Applying and using technology when you lack the desire or resources to be an Alpha Geek.” Specifically, I can’t really blame a lack of resources on my non-alpha geek status. Yes, I suppose if I wanted, I could certainly get to [...]
I reached a milestone today with my GTD project: it became usable enough that I can use it to track what I’m working on for its development. In programmer’s parlance, that’s eating my own dogfood. Granted, the food tastes pretty bland and requires extra chewing, but it’s edible. A lot of personal projects are born [...]
According to Larry Wall, the first virtue of a programmer is laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don’t have to answer so many questions about it I [...]
Abstract: A primary disconnect of GTD systems is that they are more interested in the data than the actions. As an analogy, let’s pretend you are are tasked with starting a new rocking chair manufacturing company. Would you rather have A pre-designed assembly line that had all the jigs and supplies for the steps [...]
You know the economy is really in the tank when people start downgrading their virtual properties to save money. Witness Steve W, who traded in his Lamborghini Gallardo for a Subaru Impreza in Facebook’s Speed Racing Tweet This Post
In the car this morning, in response to one of Micah’s silly questions: “what will we do with this cell phone car charger now that you have a new phone?” Amy flippantly answered, “we’ll hang it on the Christmas tree.” “Hey, what if we really did that?” she asked. We brainstormed for a bit, all [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about a wiki-like system to facilitate the habits of GTD. It’s a wiki in the sense that everything is an item, and there is no explicit hierarchy. There are no folders, and no binary parent/child relationships between projects and tasks. But its not enough to depend on a simple wiki, [...]
I started my first Grails project today, using the basic project in NetBeans. I was going to start with vanilla Groovy, but learning thick client Java seemed like more work than going whole hog into Grails. I’ve said for some time, I’m scared to try Groovy/Grails, since I’ll probably get angry at all the time [...]
Given the background about my use of GTD, now I get to into some new opinions. I’ve been thinking a lot about personal productivity after getting a blast from the past and the emails it spawned about the persistent poor state of high volume email management. In object oriented programming terms, GTD is an interface, [...]