From the “What’s the Next Action” blog, this 5 minute video is a very nice lecture / introduction to GTD by the author of GTD himself, David Allen. Watch this: A Very Nice Lecture from David Allen You can also download The entire Getting Things Done Fast audiobook (MP3), and accompanying workbook (PDF). (You’ll need [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Why you should Always Post your Customer Comment Card on your Blog
Posted: September 20, 2007 in Consumer IssuesThis is a Perfect Illustration of my point… In my recent item, called “Why I’ll never use Fandango again!“, there is a new response, as of yesterday… This last comment illustrates, and proves, exactly what I was explaining in my article above… The company itself responded… as the second reply, in fact. Every company “monitors [...]
Send Voicemail — without bothering the person by ringing his phone
Posted: September 18, 2007 in TechnologyThere are features within certain cellphone companies’ voicemail systems, where you can Send a Voicemail to another subscriber… …which is an Excellent, very useful feature. The Drawback: This only works if the other person… (1) Also has Verizon (or AT&T, or whatever — the same provider as you!), AND (2) he also has service in [...]
What is GTD? …and what about GTDF? Just get this. Don’t ask questions. Just get this. Listen to the audiobook. Then, listen to it again. And again. Until you really get it. Transformational….. in it’s Simplicity. A beautiful thing. Getting Things Done Fast (audiobook) by David Allen A quote from the 43 Folders productivity blog: [...]
Is it Wrong to Expect Tech Support for a “Free” Product?
Posted: September 17, 2007 in Internet FreedomThere has been a lot of misunderstanding about my position on the lack of Tech Support for the uTorrent product, by the publisher, BitTorrent, Inc. The basic arguments that have been put forth, seem to fall into one of two lines of reasoning… either… (1) “How dare you have the nerve to ask for Support [...]
Today in the Wall Street Journal’s Personal Technology section, appears an article by Walter Mossberg, which claims to be a “review” of “Linux”. If you read the article, however, it is not really reviewing Linux. It’s not even reviewing, specifically, Ubuntu Linux (which is the most popular Linux build, by far)… But it is actually [...]
Why doesn’t EVERY airfare web site — like expedia.com and sidestep.com — give you a “Calendar of Fares”….? ….like SkyBus.com does? It simply displays a calendar… and on each date, it displays what the lowest fare for that date would be. This way, if my dates are flexible, I can instantly spot the lowest fare [...]
If you ever see a charge on your credit card for, “Reservation Rewards”, it’s because you didn’t read this article first… Fandango.com is a web site which sells movie tickets online… in partnership with the actual theaters. About a month ago, I ordered tickets online for a movie — only because it was a new [...]
