August 2009

Letters To Old Friends and Getting Things Done

08.31.2009 GTD

I’ve taken time recently to catch up with some old friends.  It’s been very nice.  It’s also given me a chance to think about why I hadn’t kept in touch and what’s really different now. I think it boils down to this:  intentionality.  That’s a clumsy, jargon-ish word, but it works. I’ve been overwhelmed with [...]

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Stay Loose

08.28.2009 writing

This morning I had my final session of Occupational Therapy.  Back in May, while working out, I took a tumble and among the other scrapes and contusions, ended up badly breaking the little finger of my left hand (bad as in “broken off” at the base and dislocating a bone in my hand). Every step [...]

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Clean Teeth and the Difficult Conversation With Vendors

08.27.2009 Business

I went to the dentist this morning for my six month cleaning and checkup. Everything was fine, thank you (except for a little filling repair that I had to schedule. Should only take thirty minutes and no numbing). But while I was there I couldn’t help but overhear the conversations. One was a college kid [...]

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In Praise of Paper and the Good Enough

08.26.2009 Business

For some reason I can’t quite remember, I received a subscription to the print version of Wired Magazine.  To my surprise, I’m quite enjoying it.  I hadn’t paid much attention to it in years, although I do have it in my RSS feed.  The print edition and online edition are equivalent in their content, but [...]

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All The News That's Fit To Serve

08.25.2009 Books and Literature

I subscribe to the Columbus Dispatch and read it every day.  It’s part of my morning ritual.  I skim thru it, excluding the sports section, as I eat my two-egg omelet and watch/listen to the Channel 4 news. The Dispatch is an increasingly thin, not very good paper, but it’s the only paper in town. [...]

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