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Reasons Why Our Reasoning Ain’t So Good 30 May 2012 | 09:44 am
Thousands if not millions of hours of psychological research has given us a superabundance of books that explain how we make decisions and why many of them are so poor. Books like Subliminal, Thinking...
A Screwtape Letter on How to Waste Your Life 28 May 2012 | 06:26 am
Many, many years ago, I read a couple of C.S. Lewis books that had such an impact on me that I occasionally re-read them: The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce. The Screwtape Letters are a seri...
Are You Hiding Action Items from Yourself? 25 May 2012 | 06:23 am
A problem I’ve noticed in my use of information collection tools such as Evernote, SpringPad, and SimpleNote is that I sometimes bury action items within them. For example, in reading an interview of ...
Resources for David Foster Wallace Fans 21 May 2012 | 10:09 am
My recent David Foster Wallace post focused on his 2005 Kenyon Commencement Speech, but also provided several links to additional DFW resources. Since that posting, I have read more of David’s materia...
A Ton of Online Resources for Learning 17 May 2012 | 09:24 am
Regular readers know that, even though I am retired, I am big on continuous learning. I make it a point to learn something every day. (I’ve seen an interview in which Warren Buffett says he tries to l...
Save Money on these Notetaker Items. If You Want To. 16 May 2012 | 08:52 am
When I broke the pen in my David Allen Notetaker Wallet, which I’ve had for over 10 years, I went to David’s online store to look for a replacement. The store had two models of the Notetaker pen, one ...
How Email, Twitter, Facebook Can Keep You From Dying 12 May 2012 | 08:05 am
All across the world, and especially the US, nursing homes and hospice centers are overflowing with people who just will not die. They are saying I can’t die yet! I’ve still got unread email and twee...
Good Fiction Books Can Improve Your Mindfulness 9 May 2012 | 07:52 am
I recently read an article suggesting that reading fiction is good for you. While it made good points, my initial reaction was “I see plenty of fiction on TV, including the presidential debates and al...
Instead of Fighting “Normal,” Model Genius [Mindfulness] 3 May 2012 | 09:56 am
Have you noticed the plethora of books and articles being written on how irrational, emotional, and easy-to-trick the human mind is? There are books like Predictably Irrational, Thinking, Fast and Slo...
The Most Important Part of GTD: Capturing Information 3 May 2012 | 07:33 am
You can build all sorts of useful task and project lists, and be rigorous in conducting your weekly review and planning sessions, but if you don’t have a good information capture system, you are missi...
