Productivity Why I don't write much about productivity any more There used to be a lot of productivity and GTD related posts at this blog, but not any more. What's the deal?
Productivity How to handle Inbox Infinity How I'd handle an email inbox that's too full even to contemplate.
GTD Nothing works without review The last piece of the Summer Challenge is about making all the habits work via the review process.
Academia Two important questions about Inbox Zero The Inbox Zero concept elicits a broad range of responses from academics, mostly negative. Here are the two most important questions we can ask about it.
GTD My 2021 productivity setup: Part 2 Part 2 of an update on my GTD setup, focusing on the tactical side with an analog twist.
GTD My 2021 productivity setup: Part 1 Part 1 of an update on my GTD setup, focusing on the digital/strategic side.
Academia Working in context So you made a Next Actions list. How do you decide which actions to do? The constraints on those actions give us a clue.
Academia Working mindfully with projects How do you give appropriate attention to things you want to do, that require multiple steps?
Balance Clarifying what you captured Anything that we capture in our attention needs clarification about what it means to us. Here's a process for doing that.
Summer Challenge Building the habit of Capturing We kick off the Summer Challenge by building the habit of ubiquitous capture.
Academia Introducing the Summer Challenge This summer I'm starting a weekly series focused on building habits, practices, and mindsets to inoculate against burnout and exhaustion in the Fall.
Academia Using OKRs for better goal setting The concept of OKRs (objectives and key results) is a healthier and more productive approach to goal-setting than traditional methods.
GTD On building a practice of writing Some thoughts on how to build a consistent practice of writing.
GTD How GTD has helped me during the pandemic Getting Things Done (GTD) has played a big role in helping me not just survive but sort of thrive during the last year.
Productivity (Repost) Planning as an act of hope How do you approach planning short- and long-term goals, when you have no idea what the next 120 days will be like, or even if you'll be around at the end of it?
Leadership The urgent and the important Distinguishing between the urgent and the important, and having the discipline to work on important tasks that aren't urgent, is a critical and difficult task.
GTD The current state of my GTD tool setup Here's where I have landed in terms of my tool set for GTD: the tactical and the strategic.
Productivity Morning and afternoon rituals for peace and productivity Rituals and routines provide structure and motivation for life and work. Here are morning and afternoon routines I've adopted that I've found helpful.
Flipped learning Managing time in flipped learning Three aspects of appropriate time management when running a flipped learning environment.
GTD My GTD reboot part 3: Getting Apps Done In part 3 of my GTD reboot series, we look at GTD software applications and how I choose them.
GTD GTD Reboot part 2: Workflows In this second post of a series on rethinking GTD: How do changes in philosophy lead to changes in workflows?
GTD My GTD reboot, part 1: Rethinking the system Recent events have caused me to completely rethink how I'm using the Getting Things Done philosophy. First of a three-part mini-series.
Productivity Working in a semester that's one month long How I'm learning to love constraints, as I put an entire semester's work into a single month sprint.
Productivity Planning as an act of hope How do you approach planning short- and long-term goals, when you have no idea what the next 120 days will be like, or even if you'll be around at the end of it?
GTD Start the semester at Inbox Zero Professors joke about drowning in email, but it's a problem that hampers our professional work. Here's how to get to Inbox Zero and stay there.