Duct Tape And Turing Machines

After trying several flavors of David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology over the last year, I’ve finally managed to develop a personal organization system that works for me. I’m using 37Signals’ wonderful free Backpack service to keep what amounts to a lightweight spiral-bound notebook full of writing, todo lists, reminders and the like. [...]

I recently finished reading Dreaming In Code. Inside was a quote that I thought might be the wisest words I’ve heard about personal projects:
“Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You should start with a small trivial project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you’ll [...]

I’ve got this problem where random little seeds for projects pop into my head at during the day. To keep from forgetting some of the good ones before I get around to ‘em, I wrote a little project idea aggregator in Ruby.
Usage: projects [options]
-a, –add [...]

There’s a hell of a lot of brain-cycles out there being devoted to the idea of Getting Things Done. A quick survery of the common viewpoints:

On one extreme, there are the office managers who worship the god Productivity, while managing to avoid any meaningful measure of work accomplished. Haven’t met your TPS quota [...]