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Think of productivity as spinning plates. You don't have to spin all of them at the same time. Get them going, then spin those that are either about to fall or need the most attention.

Build & Sustain an Open Source Community

This article provides a few lists on maintaining an OSC.


The 14 Words that Make All the Difference

This page contains a core of words that helps build mastery in English. I added this page because of my fascination with languages and desire to simplify writing English.


Bonsai With GTD


Business Plan

This page is a short list of what goes in a business plan. I culled this list from Squidoo, and I encourage you to check out that web site for more useful tips.


Easy Script Notes

Easy Script is a way to use systematic abbreviations to speed your writing. This is done by using individual letters to represent prefixes and suffixes. This approach helped me switch to hand-writing notes in law school; a change that allowed me to be more productive in class.


Eating Healthy on the Run: Diet Tips for Commuters and other Multi-Taskers

With the amount of time [spent commuting], it's no wonder many [commuters] don't always make the best dietary choices. Quick and easy makes the menu when it comes to eating on the move, said Gwenn White with the county's On the Move With Food Wise program.


David Allen - Getting Things Done

[[#from]] [[http://www.davidco.com/ |Getting Things Done]] is a systematic approach to managing one's schedules and priorities; sort of a 21st Century Dale Carnegie. The general concept behind the approach is to use something other than one's mind as a place to store the various tasks and projects that need to be done. Below is an outline of the general ideas behind the system to help me learn the system. The concepts are from the book Getting Things Done copyright 2001, David Allen.


Setting Up Your Planner

The D*I*Y Planner system was created to be highly tweakable and organisationally agnostic, so feel free to build and fill your planner however you want. That being said, it can be rather difficult to jump in and come up with a productivity system from scratch, so to get you started with a very basic GTD implementation, we'd suggest the following as a base for your planner. (If index cards are more your thing, then pop on over to Setting Up a GTD-Based Hipster PDA.)


Speed Writing


How To Start A Journal

A diary or journal is a safe, private place to express your feelings…and create a special connection to someone you've lost.


Taking Minutes

These days, many of us find ourselves in the position of taking minutes without a clue of how to go about it. The following is a guide for making this task easier:


Technical Teams

Google runs in three-man teams who have three month projects. Larger projects are sub-divided into three month chunks. Teams at liberty to use any langauge for that project, and after three months are up, they are allowed to move onto other projects. Twenty percent (i.e. 8 hours) of their time is devoted to pet projects. Strict Python programming requirements (must pass style test before allowed to commit).

  • Short iterations
  • Less burn-out
  • pet projects encourage self-learning.
  • Small team for smoother communication, fewer pathways.
  • Read More about Technical Teams

Wrong With English

This is an interesting article that helps explain the problems with English that I think make it unwieldy to learn to read. I favor the idea of improving the alphabet.



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