Self-Management-related Parries
March 2010
Before the Setup
Nobody from usesthis.com has asked me what my setup us, nor is likely to anytime soon. So I’m just going to mouth off here about it. But first, some background.
June 2007
Only the Rustle in the Trees
We all, like twinkles on a sunny day’s waves, shine briefly. That I do know to be true. Other perspectives are futile. Grief, loss — these are the great teachers surely. Understand that what one has will pass.
May 2007
Bikram’s Yoga, Meet David Allen’s GTD
Both systems are comprehensive in their respective realms and, controversially, ground-up rather than top-down.
April 2007
WWWRNUYTAI?
How does one tamp down the debilitating, and as we’ve seen this week, frightful engrossment with me me me? One way is to follow Sailor Bob and ask what’s wrong with right now unless you think about it.
Do Better, Feel Worse
How do we know which we want if we don’t know what we want? Musings on Professor Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice – Why More Is Less, complete with video lecture.
February 2007
Style in Person
Is Neil Strauss’s The Game our generation’s On the Road or Electric Kool Aid Acid Test? Certainly it’s about extreme personalities on the edge of self-destruction yet leading a social revolution that may change modern society. And the characters travel around America somewhat frantically, with returns to their families from the foment of the group’s experiment.
On the Seventh Day
Irit is skeptical of David Allen’s Getting Things Done self-management system because it eschews the rigors of time management for what feels right. But GTD is about informed feeling.
May 2003
Allah Help the Jackals
While it’s obvious that overplaying your power leads to your downfall — Hitler’s two-front war, Saddam’s continuation of his beef with the US after a lucky break in 1991 — it’s less obvious that underplaying your power also leads to trouble. America did this in the 1970s under Carter. Israel has done it almost consistently.
Self-Management-related Photos
Latmag does Self-Management
January 2010
Leon R. Kass, The Beginning of Wisdom, Pp. 406-7.
Jacob’s Summary
“ The biblical counterpart of Odysseus, Jacob must solve the fundamental human difficulties illustrated in the pre-Abrahamic chapters of Genesis. ”
December 2002
Francis Fukuyama, “Social Capital and Civil Society”
People Need People
“ There are serious problems with a culture of unbridled individualism, in which the breaking of rules becomes, in a sense, the only remaining rule. The first has to do with the fact that moral values and social rules are not simply arbitrary constraints on individual choice but the precondition for any kind of cooperative enterprise. Indeed, social scientists have recently begun to refer to a society’s stock of shared values as “social capital.” ”
And on the Trail
Fri 18 May ’12
Re Facebook, “Mark Zuckerberg is to uselessness what Henry Ford was to the automobile.”
Wed 28 Mar ’12
Complete Guide to Urine Therapy. I think I’m sold.
Sun 11 Mar ’12
Paul Graham PyCon US 2012 keynote wherein he spells out some of the big ambitious start-up ideas on our collective mind. Be the next Google. Fix email. Be the next Apple. Replace universities. Ongoing diagnostic healthcare.
Creativity: we’re coming to understand it.
Fri 10 Feb ’12
Nice piece by a native German speaker on Zen and the art of being a programmer without going crazy or driving crazy those around you. Sorry, everyone.
Mon 6 Feb ’12
Sat 4 Feb ’12
Brain Pickings’ 11 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2011.
Wed 1 Feb ’12
Mon 16 Jan ’12
Wed 4 Jan ’12
John Malkovich on Charlie Rose.
John Malkovich: The world is in fact, well, if you’re anywhere near as lucky as I have been, but even if you’re just moderately lucky, the world is in fact an exquisitely beautiful, endlessly fascinating place filled often with spectacular people.
Charlie Rose: That’s exactly the way I feel.
JM: You know…
CR: Exactly!
Sat 31 Dec ’11
Can we home knowledge workers learn from the monks and nuns who preceded us?
Wed 28 Dec ’11
There’s a name for something I’ve always wanted to do and lacked the gumption and follow-through and doubted it: Radical Honesty. The FAQ.
Tue 27 Dec ’11
Ambient Star Trek bridge sounds. For working geeks, via http://reedmaniac.com.
Wed 21 Dec ’11
A statement from Louis C.K. on the direct sale of his Beacon Theatre special.
Fri 16 Dec ’11
Mon 12 Dec ’11
Tue 6 Dec ’11
The heroic Spartacus star formerly known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky is mellow in his living room.
Sun 27 Nov ’11
David Brooks on Charlie Rose discusses the new political schism in America, the recent rise of narcissism in the culture, and some general trends in the thousands of life summaries he’s solicited from readers over 70.
Wed 19 Oct ’11
Joseph Epstein on the aphorisms of Rochefoucauld.
Wed 12 Oct ’11
Arstechnica, the iOS 5 review. Featuring game-changers Siri and the iCloud.
Thu 6 Oct ’11
Mon 26 Sep ’11
Conrad Black, facing more jail time, remains irrepressible.
Sun 18 Sep ’11
Sun 4 Sep ’11
New book on being childless in Israel.
Thu 1 Sep ’11
The strange story of Saif Qaddafi in Vanity Fair.
Thu 18 Aug ’11
I’m a believer — decision fatigue.
Thu 4 Aug ’11
Working remotely works.
Sat 28 May ’11
John Podhoretz judges the judge in “The Choice of Richard Goldstone”.
Fri 29 Apr ’11
This repeated lunge for the sour spot — WRM on the Obama presidency.
Thu 14 Apr ’11
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, waxes serious on what education should really be for most of us.
Fri 8 Apr ’11
The perfect push-up, in detail.
Wed 30 Mar ’11
Why an iPad? Seth Godin explains.
Tue 29 Mar ’11
Answers to this year’s question from The Edge: What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?
Sat 26 Mar ’11
The telephone retreats.
Sun 6 Mar ’11
A donut without a hole is a danish. “Secret of the Sabbath“ by Yosef Yitzhak Lifshitz in Azure.
Thu 10 Feb ’11
Michael Barone celebrates Ronald Reagan’s centenary.
Tue 18 Jan ’11
Fri 14 Jan ’11
On solitude and leadership, the Nunnian combination.
Thu 7 Oct ’10
A reminder of Benjamin Franklin’s folksy but wise wisdom.
Wed 6 Oct ’10
Orson Welles, delightful on politics and art.
Wed 22 Sep ’10
The GOP presents a Pledge to America. Among the promises: that every bill cite constitutional authority.
Sat 4 Sep ’10
Interview with Shatner including video. Fine.
Tue 31 Aug ’10
Walter Russell Mead welcomes this incoming college class with some wise words.
Tue 24 Aug ’10
Fri 20 Aug ’10
On the emerging emerging adulthood.
Sat 7 Aug ’10
Saxondale tells The Sun how it is — an in-character interview.
Mon 2 Aug ’10
Sat 24 Jul ’10
Another excellent piece by Andy Rutledge, an admonition/checklist for being a professional designer/developer.
Tue 8 Jun ’10
Could Americans get yob disease? (Comments are more insightful than the article itself.)
Wed 21 Apr ’10
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