Category: Personal Development

  • This is not a paid advertisement … just FYI … I am considering taking a break for the day-to-day and going to this … since I had to add it to my calendar … I might as well cut and paste it into a blog post: "Principles of Leadership: From…

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  • Proverbs 14:4: "An empty stable stays clean, but no income comes from an empty stable." (NLT) The Fox and the Hedgehog … And …  Motto #30: "If you don’t have the time to do it right, where are you going to find the time to do it over?"

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  • Chad Dickerson wrote that he is moving his "linkblogging" to del.icio.us.  I am not sure that will work well for me … but maybe something I should at least try … meanwhile: PODCASTING (MONEY) CIO NEWS ALERTS: Pod-Cashing – Can anybody make money from podcasting? Doc Searls: The Podcast Network…

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  • The CTO of Metlife (New York City) – Steve Sheinheit shares his thoughts in CIO Magazine in an article entitled "WORK-LIFE BALANCE: How To Operate 24/7 Without Losing Your Mind – As the CIO of MetLife has discovered, it is possible to turn technology from a leash into an agent…

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  • Douglas Johnston has done some amazing do-it-yourself (DIY) paper planner kit work released under Creative Commons: Included are 50+ templates of ooey-gooey organisational goodness, some stylish covers, a receipt envelope craft project, a detailed handbook, undated calendars, mix-and-match forms, and more. It’s mostly inspired by Getting, but plenty of generic…

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  • I tried several different approaches with note-taking at eTech. With my Tablet PC (HP TC1100) not rebuilt in time for the conference, I thought it might be good to do some experimenting.  If I had my Tablet PC I would have taken all my notes in One Note. So, on…

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  • One of my biggest challenges is that I like to experiment with trying the "newest" thing … after reading 43 Folders, two ideas have percolated to a point of actually trying them out.  Over the course of the last month, I tested the generic Hipster PDA (I was using a…

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  • The Life Hacks session was very good from a personal and professional perspective. Here are my my edited notes … Live Hacks application functional areas (geek perspective): decent email search (many tools) easy webscraping (generating RSS feeds) keyboard macros for Windows/Linux (like Mac tools: launchbar, butler, quicksilver) filepile for everyone…

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  • Flickr: Photos tagged with hipsterpda via 43 Folders blog. Because of some security rules at work I don’t always get to take electronic items with me to all my meetings.  I have a "hyprid" 3×5 index card solution that is pretty close to the hipsterpda solution.  I should post the…

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  • TaDaList is a great potential tool but it looks like it is just a "marketing" teaser for Basecamp (nothing wrong with the approach … pretty good idea in general). But my 10 second spin has two big problems: Manually have to share every list and not a hierarchy of lists.…

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