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Vox Pop: Managing actions from list emails?
Inbox Zero Tech Talk 7/23/2007 00:58:38 During the Q&A portion of my Inbox Zeropresentation at Google the other day, an audience member stumped me with a question about how to manage action around...
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Vox Pop: What default settings would you change?
As I am wont to do, I was thinking out loud on Twitter this morning.I'm convinced that, for better or worse, a lot of computer-related habits come straight out of using the default settings. For...
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Vox Pop: Re-creating scarcity
I have a friend who told me he was thinking about giving his project managers a weekly pile of chips that could be redeemed for person-hours in meetings. So, to schedule firewalled, group face-time,...
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Field Reports: Guerrilla Office Tactics
I've started collecting stories -- some of which may be entirely apocryphal tall tales -- of the purported lengths to which people are going to filter noise and to ensure that their time and attention...
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Technology for smarter ignoring
Cory Doctorow has a short piece in Internet Evolution called "The Future of Ignoring Things" that really resonated with me. Excerpt:Take email: Endless engineer-hours are poured into stopping spam, but...
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Enlightened outsourcing Part 2: The practice
Ryan Norbauer returns with the hotly-anticipated conclusion to his series on the psychology and practice of outsourcing your life. If you haven’t read it yet, be sure to start with part 1. —Merlin.Now...
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The Annoying Productive Guy At Work: Shaming Users One Color At A Time
I was recently put in charge of on-site tech services after a two year apprenticeship as the assistant. Surveying the mess left to me by my former boss, I'm amazed at how many open projects he allowed...
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Help Me Figure Out How to Spend 12 More Hours a Week
Minor milestone in my household coming soon: my son is starting preschool, meaning I'll suddenly have more time on my hands. It's only three mornings a week though; as much as I'd like to hire someone...
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William F. Buckley, Scourge of 20-pound Bond Paper
William F. Buckley Jr., one of the fathers of modern American political conservatism, died Wednesday. Whether you agree with his politics or not, it's hard to ignore this positively startling fact from...
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Your Story: Throwing new tools at a communication problem?
I'm working on a (likely non-43 Folders) piece about a topic that seems to keep coming up whenever I talk with people about how their team plans, collaborates, and generally communicates with one...
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