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Re: GND

Slow Moves — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:45:46 -0000

Yeah! My 2 cents for GTD as well..

So how much time do you save on an average day (so you can spend it on your blog..).

If you have to spend 10 minutes reading GTD info and it saves you 2 minutes..what did you gain actually ?

To my believe these self called GTD guru's just need confirmation of their existence by putting out their x-steps program. Probably working towards a book release..

To my believe GTD is maybe effective for really busy busy people (who will never have the time to sit at the internet reading blog's at all).

It's just middlemanagament showing 'look how smart i am' and do follow MY 13 step program!!!

I'm just taking one step..off the GTD building head first towards the pavement

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DarrelSeventeen — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:15:34 -0000

Why is it inordinately hard to find yourself in the septuagint and vulgate but not to share about the congruence between, for example? This channel is pubicly logged so don't mention where you've hidden the bodies.

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Solo — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:56:59 -0000

Of/c every trend has its mediocre exponents, but the shift from products to services does neccessitate a shift in mindset. Working on an assembly line probably doesn't call for a weekly review the same way that being a freelance electronic hobo does. The point of GTD is actually to free up not just "3 min. at the supermarket" but to allow you to dawdle at the greenmarket enjoyably knowing that you have some handle on the rest of your life.

Excuse me, I have to go polish my space pen now...!

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Blake M. — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:41:44 -0000

"You sound like a miserable prick."

Nice.

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imsuden — Tue, 15 May 2007 12:32:15 -0000

I like Lifehacker, but I've got to agree with this. These theories are so banal as to be humorous (http://lifehacker.com/softw...
or just downright fascistic:
"Currently I am using My Life Organized and have >1600 tasks over a couple hundred projects that have to be completed over the next 5 years." (from http://lifehacker.com/softw...

BTW this site looks great, Jon.

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peter — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:02:39 -0000

Dude, you are awesome. Thanks for saying what needed to be said, and saying it so well. By the way, the site is gorgeous (can't believe someone said it is boring in appearance?!)

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Lester McGrath — Thu, 10 May 2007 09:40:35 -0000

I wonder if David Allen, founder of GTD, blog's?
Well, he used to. Here's his last one, posted a year ago, on why he stopped blogging:
http://www.davidco.com/blog...

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Duff — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:31:50 -0000

Productivity is about doing what you want to be doing in life, and about feeling good doing it.

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Zung! — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:09:29 -0000

"What’s the deal with all these fucking ‘Productivity’ blogs?"
Funny that you don't get it. It's a religion (of sorts). Serving the same social function that western religions have served for millenia.
Religions themselves aren't that bad, it's the problem they're supposed to solve (and don't), that needs to be addressed: that we are small cogs in the corporate scheme.
These productivity gurus feed on our need to feel good about ourselves.
I have more empty drivel like this on my self-hacking blog.

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Javier Marti — Wed, 09 May 2007 03:17:37 -0000

You should also make a rant about all the websites that offer you to be part of the community, as Trendirama, our project. Unfortunately, when everyone is doing something similar, even the ones who really make it for a good reason are put in the same box: "oh, no, another community" "someone else that wants me to sign out" "I have enough friends already, thank you!" "no, thank you, I don't want to invite my friends!"
I am at the other end now, but I would put most social networking communities in the same box as GTD blogs. "People who liked this also liked..." god!, when you've seen it enough times, you just feel like asking "and who asked you what others liked? who cares what others liked?" But the answer, and why these systems work, is because many of us seem to have no life out of the internet! Or infinite times in our hands. Maybe that's why people "end up" in the get things done blogs. The problem is that in those blogs now they spend the time they used to spend somewhere else, but at least they feel better about it, I guess...;)

About the lists that bloggers do, it is all a well documented technique to be featured in Digg and similar websites. All these "make money online" "bring more traffic to your blog" gurus alway say: "make it as a list". And so, there you are, everyone doing it...
quite irritating and boring.
(and I have even done one myself in my blog, to see what's all about, so I can't point to anyone!Conclusion: writing in lists is antinatural anyway, and a technique geared to people with the attention span of a drunk mosquito)
As long as the internet is fed and read by...let's say..."not so smart people", this is what we'll have for still some time ahead...fasten your seatbelt and close your eyes!

Regards
Javier, Founder
Trendirama.com

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Josh — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:45:19 -0000

Holy crap, have a cry why don't you? If you don't like the look of an article, don't open it! Complaining about too many sites on the web is like... well there isn't even a comparison to that.
Youre just as bad as you say they are, grow up.

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Dan Parsons — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:09:28 -0000

I understand where you're coming from - fads are irksome.

But have you considered that many people pursue GTD not because they want to be more productive, but because the pressures life puts on them demand that they be more productive, or their job/family suffers? Someone whose job is so demanding, that their life is full of anxiety and they're unable to complete all their tasks, and more organization alleviates these problems? It's not a myth - it happened to me.

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Tue, 08 May 2007 21:55:29 -0000

Amen brother- I'm stupidly rich and I fuck around more then anyone I know.

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babayada — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:28:59 -0000

Thank you for posting this.

I agree.

Productivity is not the Holy Grail. There is much more to life, and, sadly, many of those who produce to live rarely get to the living part. Their crusade of production ruins the capacity to simply enjoy life, so once they reap the benefits of their hard work they can't even enjoy it.

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Eric — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:45:35 -0000

For what it's worth, for me the whole "productivity" thing isn't a way to get more work done - it's how to get the work I have to do done quicker and more efficiently so I can stop f*cking working. When I don't have to worry if I forgot to do something or where I put that file or when this project needs to be done I can go home, sit down, and relax. Some people are workaholics, I'm just an extremely efficient lazy person. :-)

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Blurgle — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:03:10 -0000

Props man, I fucking hate whiney middle-aged people who complain that their lives suck.

So you're whining about how terrible it is that other people whine?

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Z. D. Smith — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:00:24 -0000

Frank, thanks for the tip. That had been bugging me for months. Everyone else: glad you like the fonts.

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Joshua B — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:00:10 -0000

Hey, thanks for the link to LifeReboot, that one slipped under my radar ;-)

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Jon — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:54:46 -0000

Your web page is very boring in appearance.

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llimllib — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:28:43 -0000

Beautiful typesetting! Although the courier in this box makes me sad.

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Shanti Braford — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:23:09 -0000

Fuckin A, mate.

I've had the domain name gtdplusplus.com reg'd and setup for a while now.

Funy Thing - I've been too busy doing stuff to actually blog on it for a while now.

I've often thought all these GTD bloggers should have a post/page/something explaining how much they actually do get done & why we should believe they are really so productive.

Or is it the case of Robert Kiyosaki?

The real $$$ is to be made in telling people how to GTD, not actually getting things done yourself (besides blog posts). :)

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NM — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:14:57 -0000

This is the most refreshing thing I've read on the internet in my whole life. Thank you.

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Ry — Tue, 08 May 2007 18:59:40 -0000

Man, I couldn't agree with you more. What a superbly executed rant. If I see another top 10 list I'm going to cry, which of course means I'm going to be very, very depressed for a very, very long time. There is a voluminous amount of trash out there in blog land.

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Leo — Tue, 08 May 2007 18:27:55 -0000

Hey, glad you like my blog, Zen Habits. :)

Seriously though, if you aren't interested in it, why read it? Just move on to something that is more useful/interesting to you.

The truth is, many people are interested in this stuff (including myself), which is why I write about it. I don't think there's one answer for everyone, though, and I've tried to make that clear on my site.

It's great to hear an alternative viewpoint, though, and I'm sure it felt good to get all of that off your chest. Thanks for sharing.

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Phil — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:57:58 -0000

Props man, I fucking hate whiney middle-aged people who complain that their lives suck.