One Thing, Then the Next
What do you do when everything around you is making your decisions for you?
Searching for A Key to Meaningful Productivity
The Seductive Power of Tools Tools are powerful. They help us bring our visions to reality. Turn a key, and a lock opens. Press play on a music app, and lovely noises come out. Ask an AI to write something, and words flow onto the screen. As I write now with...Waiting for a Deadline to Begin…
Whether preparing taxes, preparing a report, or taking out the garbage, we might find ourselves waiting “until it’s really important.”
Why do something that’s not important now? It’ll be important later.
The logic seems fairly solid. The trouble is most things are not about straight logic…
3 Major Components of a Working Task System
We cannot do everything we wish. Such is the human condition. But we can create structures, whether in words, lists, gadgets, and more, to hold things aside while we focus on the moment. Any system we use to manage our work or play should be able to reliably hold the...
The Seduction of Goals, the Strength of Guides
When writing a list of things to do, we look into the future. We write things like: “Do report” “Clean gutters” … The implication is that if we make it through our list, we will have completed the report and cleaned the gutters. Obvious,...
The Joys of Avoiding Notes and AI
Note takers, makers, apps, and shakers have been quite the rage in recent days. With a promised ease of writing, can we create simply by resting on the notes we’ve naturally squirreled away? Or perhaps we can turn to AI. From a carefully crafted prompt or two,...
