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The hand of thought

(The title of this post is suggested byOpening the Hand of Thought‘, by Ven. Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. I haven’t read it (yet), but I’m sure I’ll find a lot in common with the interests expressed in here).

I see thought as a life force, as a spring always moving along. As we’re continuously floating on such an heterogeneous matter, negative thoughts are (more…)

Problems with love? (Part 1)

Happy 2011 to everybody! I want to start my blogging year with a major issue, maybe ‘the’ Issue par excellence, the problem that, once solved, would chain-react upon the others. I mean, and with the simple usage of word we meet the first complications, the current situation of (more…)

Flowing with the workflow

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As a product of a typically non-productive culture (sorry for the tongue twister), I have found a very useful tool for implementing the GTD method in monitoring workflow interruptions. The first thing I noticed was (more…)

Reach for the moon, but start with your (two) shoelaces

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In ‘Getting Things Done‘ David Allen affirms that the size of projects does not matter (for those who are not familiar with the GTD methodology, Allen defines “project” as any desired result that requires more than one simple action-i.e. a “pack” of actions with a defined purpose), and in terms of logic, he is right. Everything in his book is rigorously logic. But it makes me think of certain (more…)