The Archives
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08.01.07FreedomJune and July were insanely busy months working with my biggest client. I pulled some very long hours and got very behind on some email and feed reading tasks. In an effort to relieve the self-imposed pressure of catching up, I now have a near-zero Inbox and have set most of my feeds to read. I'm sure I've missed some important news in the feeds, but the world hasn't stopped spinning, so it can't be that bad. Hopefully, I get a chance now to keep up.
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01.22.07A Scout’s approach to meetingsBe prepared. Simple. While I'm one to agree with the 37signals view on meetings, they are often an inevitable and necessary evil in the day of us web workers. Over at About.com, there are some great tips on organising meetings to avoid the flow-destroying passion-suck that almost always happens. I work in a town where the federal government is the business, so a lot of my clients live and die by committees, panels and meetings. For me, they are absolutely necessary. Personally, I think they suck the life out of a project - I'd much rather be doing ...
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01.05.0743 Folders GTD recapIf you are at all interested in the Getting Things Done program (not the right word, but the best I can do), you should check out Merlin's recap of his best (against several, mostly objective measures) GTD posts from 2006. I am about 50-50 on GTD; not fully bought in, but significantly better organised than I was before using the methods outlined in the book to get going. If you're not familiar with GTD, you should read the book.
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12.13.06Web geek time managementTotally seriously, WWD has another excellent post up. This time on time management for us web workers.
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11.27.06The two-minute email ruleI very much like this. Regular readers of acidlabs will know we're fans of Getting Things Done. Eric Mack extends David's Two Minute Rule to email - if the email will take more than two minutes to reply to, just delete it. Now, this is obviously an idea that needs a little tweaking. Sometimes you get emails that are critical that require a response which needs to take more than two minutes to generate. That said, take a look at your Inbox. How many unread/unanswered emails are there? What percentage of them could you deal with in ...
