Entries from September 2008

The Language Diet

Date September 23, 2008

After listening to myself speak constantly for a week while doing training recently, I’ve come to the the rather obvious realisation that my use of language, well, sucks pretty hard. My knowledge of language is fine, better than fine, really – I’m an editor, it’s my job. However, my day-to-day speech, and even that used [...]

How I’m Getting Things Done (part 4)

Date September 15, 2008

Getting this far was the easy bit, just a bit of effort to clean everything up and scrap all the clutter. Implementing a system to stay organised is where the challenge really was. I’d read a lot of reviews about different ways to keep things under control using a variety of tools, but decided to [...]

Time, Attention and Me

Date September 12, 2008

Merlin Mann’s recent post on the future direction of 43 Folders, Time, Attention, and Creative Work, kind of taps into a few things I’ve been thinking of lately. In a nutshell, his post is about refocusing, cutting out a lot of the crap and deciding what the game is really about. It’s also a reclamation [...]