Category Archives: GTD
Random observation about workflow and life
It used to be, in graduate school and in my early career, that I really couldn’t get any serious work done unless I had large, uninterrupted slabs of time to work with. I had to have 3-4 straight hours, at … Continue reading
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Filed under GTD, Life in academia, Personal, Profhacks, Vocation
Daily routines
John Cook shared this interesting article on Twitter the other day. It lists 25 great thinkers and their daily rituals. This got me thinking about my daily routine, the little rituals that I observe, and how the rhythms of a … Continue reading
Back to Jott
After trying either to live without Jott or to use an alternative speech-to-text service like reQall (which seemed very unwieldy to me), I finally decided to go back and give the new, for-profit version of Jott a spin. And actually, … Continue reading
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Monday GTD moment: Scholarship and GTD
This is the third installment of Monday GTD Moment, where I take a post to blog about Getting Things Done and how it applies in an academic setting. If you’re unfamiliar with GTD, here’s a good overview, and make sure … Continue reading
Filed under GTD, Higher ed, Life in academia, Profhacks, Scholarship, Study hacks, Tenure
Monday GTD moment: Handling grading in GTD
This is the second installment of Monday GTD Moment, where I take a post to blog about Getting Things Done and how it applies in an academic setting. Here’s the first post. If you’re unfamiliar with GTD, here’s a good … Continue reading
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Monday GTD moment: The tickler file circa 1888
This is the first of what will hopefully turn into a weekly feature here at Casting Out Nines — a Monday morning post on workflow/task management in general and GTD in particular. Hopefully a GTD post will get everyone out … Continue reading
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Farewell, Jott, I hardly knew ye
Jott, the voice-to-text program I have blogged about a couple of times, has come out of “beta” (you mean Web 2.0 apps can be something other than “beta”?) and, sadly, is no longer a free service. (You mean Web 2.0 … Continue reading
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Teddy Roosevelt’s to-do list
I’ve just finished reading Edmund Morris’ splendid biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. I can’t remember how I got interested in this book, but I came away from it greatly appreciative of Roosevelt not only as a great President but … Continue reading
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Tao on time management
Update: Welcome, readers from Terry Tao’s blog. I invite you to browse, starting with the Top 12 Posts retrospective page. I’ve got more articles on math and on time/task management if you want them. Have you ever wondered how a … Continue reading
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Wednesday lunchtime links
How to deal with feelings of inadequacy, from xkcd. edwired has some thoughts on the future of the academy in an economy where giving away your product doesn’t necessarily make your business unprofitable. Academhack follows up with related thoughts on … Continue reading
