A Life-saver, I hope: GTD

I was getting desperate. I had literally done nothing 5 weeks of holidays. I was procrastinating again yesterday when I bumped into 43folders. I was bored, so I loafed 'round the site. Then read about a book: 'Getting Things Done' by David Allen. So, I looked into it. I unearthed a whole cult!

The book talks about a system of work management, commonly called GTD, for Getting Things Done. I got(ahem) the book. It's very good. The ideas are quite simple. The techniques look promising. The system is mainly making 'lists' and keeping all plans out of your mind. The systems focuses on Actions rather than Time. I've not read the book completely. Only 1/2 way through. But I'm getting very excited.

The thing about GTD that appeals to me is that it's a completely documented tool. The whole method is flexible and extendable. Like Open Source... It's not that other techniques aren't. But there's no solid framework. In GTD, there's a 'workflow' thing. You know exactly what to do. Then there's hacks and stuff(lifehack, lifehacker, hPDA).

Right now, I'm focussing on getting a working system up as fast as possible, probably within a few hours from now. Then I'll keep bettering myself.

I've got the SAT this Saturday, and I don't know a thing. :(

Less is More

More and more does is seem to me that less is more.

If you were to work for only 1 hour a day, you would work at a very high efficiency. You would try to get everything done. If you had the whole day, you would probably laze away and take your time.

People want everything on their mobile devices. Convergence proves that less is more. They want internet, email, camera, music, video, and a load of other things on one device.

Look at some of the best computer games. They're either just point and shoot or accelerate and turn. Not some complex strategy thing, with hell a load of different points and items. Again, more is less.

I had read about how research had shown that organizations with large numbers of members had much lesser volunteers for things. Apparently, everyone thinks that someone else will volunteer. The same is the case with forums. Bigger forums get less replies than small to medium sized forums.

I have noticed that when there are plates and plates of food, it sometimes makes me sick. It's too much. I can't eat all that. Maybe in the beginning it looks good, but it definitely doesn't after a while. Maybe you are different.

People don't wear highly embroidered, frilly, complicated clothes. And females wear 'less' clothes more and more. That's got to be more!

People like less because it also means less maintenance, less hassle and therefore more productivity. Nobody wants to make a mess of things. Not everyone are experts at organization. Not everybody like complicated environments.

Less is more, quite a lot of times.