The Archives
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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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12.11.06Dealing with time zone madnessUseful advice from Web Worker Daily considering my recent experience where I have been collaborating with Donna Jensen from Avenue A | Razorfish who is based in New York. Her workday of the day before ends as mine begins, i.e. 0900 Tuesday = 1700 Monday.
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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 ...
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10.19.06“Looking into” Merlin’s brainMerlin Mann of 43folders fame has posted an excellent summary of what it takes as a knowledge worker to really prioritise those "look into" projects. He examines a number of verbs GTDers can use as contexts for their knowledgework. I've updated kGTD to reflect these.
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04.16.06The quest for the ultimate PowerBook bagA notebook bag by any other name still holds your notebook (with sincere apologies to The Bard). True, but it may not be what you really want. Continue Reading...
