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It looked like a good idea at first, but I hesitated a lot and in the end I did not add the following quote by Charles Darwin to my database: (more…)

The problem

GTD fan as I am, I usually put a strong brain effort at the planning stage of a project, so I can later enter ‘executive mode’, following my self-instructions in a Robocop-like manner. Working like that guarantees (more…)

Life is amazing when you think of it. Take what you’re really seeing right now, for instance. Try to abandon frontal vision for a minute and embrace the whole picture. You’ll have noticed that, above what you’re seeing, starts a black area, the place where (more…)

The house has been on fire ever since it was built. Maybe even while it was being built. It has become a tradition to think of the house in connection with flames, just like one cannot conceive a piano without keys or (more…)

Here’s a story about the difference between efficiency and effectiveness. A few summers ago, I was spending some days with my family at the beach. One morning, I went to the balcony and found certain relative of mine, not very intelligent, who was (more…)

The correct adoption of the GTD methodology, besides a boost in our outcomes, can also cause some important psychic side effects. David Allen himself frequently acknowledges it, sometimes (more…)

It always happens as a surprising yet pleasant accident: I suddenly find myself interconnecting fields that have very little or nothing in common. I cheer up my 80 years old aunt using (more…)

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The other day I saw ‘Misery’; it was one of those classic films that by some reason you miss when in theaters, and which always feel like finding one more french fry in the box when you (more…)

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Here’s an original suggestion for thinking outside the box: how about using a different search engine? It makes all sense of the world, from the point of view of a computer being an extension of one’s own brain. O.K., so Google is the best one, its search algorithms combine (more…)

I don’t know, maybe it comes with it age, but I have recently realized a huge misconception in my way of facing things, life, you name it. In my way of being an “adult” and “sensible” person. (more…)