It’s been a while since I blogged about what I’ve been reading, so it’s time for an update.
From that list, Brothers Karamazov has sort of fallen by the wayside, …
The Archives: Productivity
Note: This isn't quite functional yet, but I'm working on it... :) -bmc 4.5.08
Since it’s just over halfway through the year, I figured I’d check in on my New Year’s resolutions for 2008 and see how I’m doing:
1. I’ve read 19 books …
Are we developing ADD as a society? I came across two interesting articles on similar themes, one from the Baltimore Sun titled Plugged in, zoned out, and the …
Being somewhat obsessed with productivity, I’ve long been in search of the perfect to-do list killer app. For almost a decade I’ve jotted down to-do items on sticky notes …
5. 280 slides
Cool new web-based Powerpoint clone called 280 Slides:
Chris at Wait till I come! mentions this about it:
The most amazing …
Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor. It’s true. The past few days I’ve been running on empty and it’s taking its toll. (Luckily it’s …
7. Visual crack
Paul Graham’s got an essay on procrastination and distraction that hit home for me:
So one way to beat procrastination is to starve it of distractions. But that’s not as …
[Cross-posted from Blank Slate.]
From the 37signals post Workaholics fixate on inconsequential details:
Good advice for anyone who wants to be more efficient: When you’re sweating for hours over a …
9. Loftyisms
This afternoon while manning the box office and concession booth at our matinee of Swallow the Sun, I decided to finally start writing a mission statement for myself. I …
10. Three thoughts
First, does anyone know if writing on your hand (in pen, of course) has any long-term side effects of the not-so-good variety?
Second, it’s really hard to get to …
If you haven’t noticed, I have a tendency to collect irons and stash them in the fire. :) (Why are golf clubs coming to mind? Wrong image. :P) …
12. Early bird
For a while my alarm clock has gone off at five o’clock every morning, because that’s when I’m at my prime. Sure, it’s slightly less sleep (I try to …
13. Proper places
On Saturday I tidied up my room, and all weekend it’s felt wonderful having a mostly empty floor to walk on, instead of having to negotiate my way through piles …
14. Finding time
Yesterday I came across a great post by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits on ten ways to find time for your family — no matter how busy you …
I’m in love.
No, not a girl. It’s Beanstalk: hosted Subversion. This is so cool.
For the non-geeky among you, Subversion is one of the more popular version control …
16. Seven habits
Tagging has two meanings in the blogosphere: the tags that categorize a post (whether internal or for some site like Technorati), and tag-you’re-it questionnaire thingies. I have …
So, I have a small paper due tomorrow. Until this evening, I hadn’t done anything about it — I figured I’d just put it off until there was no …
1. Tonight I tried out speed dating for the first time. (It was a ward activity.) Holy smokes, I loved it! I love getting to know people …
Today I saw a blog post on writing a book in Google Docs. Interesting. One of the things that stuck out to me was the <div> hack …
20. The office
Today I came across Shaun Body’s article, My Publicly Funded Office (Thanks to Scott for the link):
Whenever I want to get serious work done, I take a 5-minute …
This morning I was reading in the Joseph Smith manual (Teachings of the Presidents of the Church), and it just struck me that Joseph was only 23 years old when …
22. After inbox zero
So I’m sitting here at a lab in the UNLV Lied Library, waiting for my advising appointment (which luckily got bumped up an hour — underpromise and overdeliver is definitely …
Sometime in the past year I decided to compartmentalize my reading so that I wouldn’t spend all my time on fiction. Not that there’s anything wrong with fiction — …
On page 70 of Stephen Covey’s The 8th Habit, I found a quote from Willam James that I’ve swiftly become a fan of:
Most people live in a very restricted …
Out with the old…
Last year I wrote 355 blog posts, which seemed like a lot until I went back to my 2006 New Year’s post and found that I …
Oscar Wilde says it best: “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
It’s been a long while since I went back …
27. The eyes have it
Time for another potpourri post.
1. Here’s a bit on eye contact from the SIRC flirting guide which puts into words something I’ve been thinking about for a while but …
It’s always kind of weird coming out of a holiday, like emerging from the womb out of a surreal floating kind of dreamlike stupor into real life. And this …
29. Simplified GTD
Make that five posts. Lifehacker has a wonderful article on practicing simplified GTD (Getting Things Done), where Gina Trapani condenses GTD into eight words: Make three lists. Revise …
Yesterday at the ward conference I was attending, the elders quorum president read this little story which I rather liked. I spent a couple minutes trying to track down …
31. Just in case
This morning on my walk up to campus, I passed a girl with purple eye shadow and light red lipstick, and my first thought, inexplicably, was that she reminded me …
This morning I noticed that my labels in Gmail had a slightly off-color background. Checking the Gmail blog, I found this rather nice little bit of goodness on …
I’ve started trying to keep up better with my blog reading (and yes, I’ll be weeding down the list of feeds I’m subscribed to so it’ll be manageable), and as …
Knowing that I was going to be speaking in one of our student wards this morning, yesterday I decided I’d procrastinated long enough and really ought to prepare my talk. …
Hurrah, our Internet is back up again! During the day on Saturday it was fine, but by evening it had slowed to a frightful crawl, barely dribbling out a …
Sometimes I feel like I’m running to and fro like a guillotined chicken, scarcely stopping to breathe. (Or whatever it is headless chickens do.) Hurry, hurry, hurry, never …
37. Fear itself
Over the weekend I had a small string of epiphanies which popped up during church on Sunday, family home evening on Monday, and some conversations I’ve had over the past …
38. Bubble to bubble
In my library science readings, we recently had some articles on reference via chat. They mentioned two things about real-time chatting (IM, Gmail, that sort of thing) that I …
39. The notebook
I don’t like legal pads. I want to like them, but I can’t. Notebooks where the pages come out when I don’t want them to are like fingernails …
40. Stuff
I just came across Paul Graham’s latest essay, “Stuff”:
Companies that sell stuff have spent huge sums training us to think stuff is still valuable. But it would be closer …
41. Rinse and repeat
My laundry luck ran out today. I washed a megaload of clothes — all my usual stuff plus the new purchases — but apparently it was too much for …
42. Back to business
Well, I don’t think I’ve gone a week without posting since I began this blog. It wasn’t just blogging that I gave up, though — I didn’t check my …
So this is what 3 a.m. looks like? It’s been many, many years since I was up this late. I just got back from the midnight showing of …
44. Down to zero
A couple weeks ago, Rikker sent me a link to a DownloadSquad article on inbox management. Now, for the past [insert long period of time], I’ve had …
45. It is good
The other day I got to peek inside my soul and see why I rank some days good and others not. I’d thought it would be dependent on how …
For my other internship (the one I didn’t blog about yesterday), I’m putting together some training material on various new technologies. There’s a lot of cool stuff here, so …
47. Wiki fever
This’ll be short, because I somehow keep running out of time (this isn’t supposed to happen! I was supposed to have gobs and gobs of free time after graduating, …
There’s a scripture in the Doctrine & Covenants (88:124) that has been on my mind for some years now:
Cease to be idle; cease to be unclean; cease to find …
The pursuit of leisure is so overrated. Last night at institute I came across a beautiful quote on work by Bruce R. McConkie:
We are here on earth to work …
I’m addicted to e-mail. I wish I were kidding, but no, I think I really am hooked. It’s what I look forward to every morning, and the longer …
