The Last Year Of Your Life

01/25/2010

I recently listened to an interview with Clint Arthur about his “Last year of your life” program, which I found interesting. The program’s five basic steps are: Decide this is the last year of your life. Write down what you want to achieve. Share your goals with a community of people. Create a system where [...]

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Richard Bach – Out of My Mind

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In this short story, the unnamed narrator (the author himself?) starts out with a couple of problems – design flaws on his small and rather antique airplane (see picture), while not critical, continue to dim the enjoyment of his flight sessions. One day he goes to sleep, exhausted after having spent hours at his computer [...]

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Programming and productivity publications

Scott Hanselman recently wrote up a list of “Six Essential Language Agnostic Programming Books“. That list, including the comments with other suggestions, is certainly worth a look. I have to admit that I haven’t read most of what he lists, and only skimmed others. Instead of trying to add to his list, here I think [...]

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Inbox Zero

I just watched Merlin Mann’s brilliant productivity video “Inbox Zero” from 2007 for the second time, these are my unedited notes from the video: Time and attention are finite. Demands on your time and attention are infinite. Email’s just a medium. It’s not a purpose in itself. Have a place for anything – thoughts, ideas, [...]

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