Sunday, December 28th, 2008
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Follow-up to my fall break posting.
I spent the last two days deleting 1000+ emails from my Gmail “read this later” pile, deleted all unneeded emails from my fall classes, and deleted from my hard drive all the working files and drafts I used to create ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
I meant to add this time management rule to my previous Fall Review post. I can't remember whether it originated with Mark Forster or David Allen, but it goes something like this: At all costs, avoid heroic efforts to get things done.
Examples of an heroic effort would be pulling an ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
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During 2007's fall break, I took a breather and penned (odd word for a blog post, but I'll use it) an update on how the semester was going and the changes I was going through at that time.
A question from Brother Thomas and my friend Rani's firing up ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
I started the fall semester a younger and more idealistic man than I am here at the halfway point (fall break). Still, I survived (and thrived) and things are looking up.
September was my transition month from going to grad school to being a grad student: that is, I can say ...
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