Reinke Faces Life

http://lifecoachesblog.com/2007/05/28/7-power-wounds

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5) Procrastination.

Putting off things you could have done and chucking them on a growing pile of to-do lists only adds to the clutter and worry in your life. Imagine having a to-do on your mind that could have been done…6 weeks ago. And it’s still lingering at the back of your mind, now.

If it takes less than 2 minutes to do, polish it off! If not, dump it, stuff it and deal it.

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Seems like a good habit.

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http://lifecoachesblog.com/2008/02/20/new-anthony-robbins-video-interview

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I’m loving this new 12 minute interview of Tony Robbins on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos.

Some highlights; around 3:40 minutes into the video he talks about how depression happens when our life doesn’t match up to the expectations of what we think it should be.

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Interesting. A few gems to take away!

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http://zenhabits.net/2008/01/a-guide-to-cutting-back-when-you-feel-overwhelmed/

A Guide to Cutting Back When You Feel Overwhelmed

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My recommendation: Cut back. Simplify. De-load.

***and**

1. Step back.

2. List everything.

3. Set limits.

4. Prioritize.

5. Eliminate.

6. Renegotiate commitments.

7. Take time off.

8. Create the ideal workday.

***End Quote***

Well, there’s no doubt, I’m feeling the pinch. Maybe it’s my mid-life crisis. The sadness of unmet expectations. The realization that the end of journey is closer than the beginning. An appreciation for Rodney Dangerfield’s rendition of Dylan Thomas. An small understanding of DaVinici’s tears for tasks undone. Maybe I have to try this chap’s advice.

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http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10853

Creatively Speaking: Isobella Jade’s memoir
by David – January 2, 2008 – 3:02 AM

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It’s a new year, so I thought I’d start by introducing a new feature I’m calling Creatively Speaking, in which I interview all sorts of artists for a first-hand look at how they go about creating their work.

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Humorously, NEW YEAR’S DAY, I wrote the following comment.

http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/archives/1060#comments

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Hey, you have to have a certain amount of ego to take the bruises of everyday life. After layoffs, and all the other bad things that happen to good people every lifetime, you have to have the self-confidence to say “I wrote THE book” on something. Even if it’s one’s own autobiography, everyone has a story to tell.

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And the very next day, the UNIVERSE delivers some reinforcement!

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DI: When you were writing the book at Apple, how did you save your files?

IJ: I saved the files each day to my Yahoo account, email form. I still have most of them saved. The Apple store did bring some tragic moments though while writing the book…I did have a moment when the Internet froze on the iMac I was working on while writing. Which meant I couldn’t save my document to my email and I thought about saving it to a folder on the desktop or making one somewhere discreet so no one would take it. After I pouted to a store employee about my catastrophe he told me I could buy a CD at the store and then download it, but my funds were limited at the time. So instead I called a film director I knew who lived in SoHo and even with a broken leg, in his crutches he brought me a CD and I was able to burn my document on the disk and save one of the best parts of my book. I believe once you write something, you can never fully write it again the same, so I wasn’t going to leave the store without it. And yes I did cry, stomp my foot, and swear a few times over it. It was extremely dramatic at the time because I also realized at that moment how much the store meant to me, what I was doing, and that even if the store didn’t know it, the store was my means to survival sort of, and it was like I saw my desperation on the computer screen waiting for the Internet to be turned on.

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If you don’t believe that your story is worth telling then who will think it so. (Other than me of course!)

I wish that all my relatives took the time to memorialize their wisdom. Even if they were dead wrong (i.e., “the world is flat”), it serves as a jumping off point from whence you came. As they say “past is prologue” and “those, who don’t learn from history, are doomed to repeat it”.

We have in the internet and endless archive of all human thought that gets recorded. True, much of it (i.e., inet porn) is imho a waste of electrons. But who knows what a genetic researcher can glean from all those photos? I’m not about to throw anything away. Especially when its so cheap to keep. (Consult the Inet Archive guy Brewster Kahle on how it’s possible to archive all human knowledge.) Maybe they will need to know what humans looked like in the Year 2000 some time in the Year 4000 after all the genetic engineering makes humans all look alike.

My point was: everyone’s story is invaluable to understanding the human experience.

And, imho, to leave this existence, without recording it in some form, is a selfish act with tragic consequences.

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http://www.43folders.com/2007/12/31/death-and-underachievement-guide-happiness-work

Death and Underachievement: A Guide to Happiness in Work
Ryan Norbauer | Dec 31 2007

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Bennet’s “Principles of Underachievement:”

* Life’s too short.
* Control is an illusion.
* Expectations lead to misery.
* Great expectations lead to great misery.
* Achievement creates expectations.
* The law of diminishing returns applies everywhere.
* Perfect is the enemy of good.
* The tallest blade of grass is the surest to be cut.
* Accomplishment is in the eye of the beholder.

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Good is the enemy of the best? Good enough for government work? Gilding the Lilly. Cheap, fast, or right: pick any two!

Wisdom or whizdumb?

Part of being productive is doing just enough!

Are we – you – me putting in more than we can ever get out?

One thing that was driven home over and over to me this year is it is not “underachieving” to forego attempting to achieve in a lower priority area to allow accomplishments in a higher priority one. I’m not sure if I’ve learned that lesson. But, I’m trying.

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Drawings that Will Change Your Life
By Ralph Perrine

Ralph Perrine believes drawing to be indispensable to good planning and good collaboration—the top two critical skills for success in life. Here, he shares twelve drawings to help bring focus and clarity to teams and any personal planning.

http://changethis.com/41.04.DrawingsChange
http://changethis.com/pdf/41.04.DrawingsChange.pdf

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Reminds me of EdB’s Lateral Thinking.

Great Ideas!!

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The Six Core Values of Innovation
By Jeff De Cagna

Innovation is the critical capability for all organizations trying to succeed in today’s marketplace. But the case for innovation cannot be made solely on the basis of the economic value it creates for customers. It is equally important for enterprises and their leaders to embrace the 6 underlying core values of innovation as an integral element for a more vibrant future. This manifesto explores these values and explains how leaders can infuse them into their organizations in various ways.

http://changethis.com/41.03.SixCoreValues
http://changethis.com/pdf/41.03.SixCoreValues.pdf

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It’s all about “leadership”!

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Seduced By Success: How the Best Companies Survive the 9 Traps of Winning By Robert J. Herbold

Kodak and Sony reached the pinnacle of success within their markets, but were unable to react to changes within those markets. Herbold, retired COO of Microsoft Corporation, examined 44 successful companies to discover 3 common mistakes made by previously successful companies. The mistakes generate 9 traps which can be avoided as companies like Proctor & Gamble and Apple did by anticipating unarticulated customer needs.

http://changethis.com/41.02.SeducedSuccess
http://changethis.com/pdf/41.02.SeducedSuccess.pdf

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A culture of agility?

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http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/12/09/half-an-hour

Half an Hour December 9, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts

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Today, December 9th 2007 the clocks go back in Venezuela – by Half an Hour.

Half an hour?

Yes, half an hour. That may sound a bit like the craziest thing a whole country has ever done in recent times but actually it’s just a reversion to the time zone which was used previously by Venezuela between 1912 and 1964 in the twentieth century.

The new official time zone of Venezuela is determined by meridian 67° 30? west of Greenwich, in South East London, UK. This meridian divides Venezuela into two almost symmetrical areas and represents a -4:30 hour offset from Greenwich Mean Time.

So what’s the time now? Here, very near Greenwich when it’s eight o’clock in the morning 8.00am – GMT, in Caracas, Venezuela it will be half past three: 3.30am.

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It does sound like a “dumb idea”. For the life of me, I never understood why people don’t just set their clocks on GMT and organize their lives around whatever time they need. What’s so sacred about working 9to5? Who cares if you go to bed at 11PM, 2300 local, or 0400+1? I know at my employer, GMT would save a lot of time zone confusion providing across the USA. When I was in the USAF many many decades ago, everything was ZULU this or ZULU that. Guess that’s politically incorrect now? But, there was never any time zone confusion. When I returned to my civilian employer and tried to bring this insight to our datacenter operations, everyone poo pooed it. Every years I’d watch them struggle with Daylight Savings Time or a national time zone confusion. Sigh. Some memes are just too powerful to change. I guess?

*** in addition ***

Notice the fine hand of gooferment in the people’s lives.

Not to make things simpler. But to make a role for themselves.

Why not just go to GMT and allow people to organize themselves. It’s not like businesses could figure out what time they should open to best serve their Customers. It’s not like people couldn’t figure out what time they should hit the sack or get up. It’s not like life wouldn’t go on regardless of what digits were on someone’s clock!

In protest, I’m going to be GMT. As soon as I can find my watch!

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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=4

Annals of Medicine
The Checklist
by Atul Gawande

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Instead, they came up with an ingeniously simple approach: they created a pilot’s checklist, with step-by-step checks for takeoff, flight, landing, and taxiing. Its mere existence indicated how far aeronautics had advanced. In the early years of flight, getting an aircraft into the air might have been nerve-racking, but it was hardly complex. Using a checklist for takeoff would no more have occurred to a pilot than to a driver backing a car out of the garage. But this new plane was too complicated to be left to the memory of any pilot, however expert.

With the checklist in hand, the pilots went on to fly the Model 299 a total of 1.8 million miles without one accident. The Army ultimately ordered almost thirteen thousand of the aircraft, which it dubbed the B-17. And, because flying the behemoth was now possible, the Army gained a decisive air advantage in the Second World War which enabled its devastating bombing campaign across Nazi Germany.

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While focused at medicine, this article certainly drives home the value of checklists. I’m going to figure out how I can incorporate this in my daily life. I’ve had enough disasters that I could use some “crash avoidence”. Seems so simple. But, then so is any “great idea”.

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FROM A EMAIL EXCHANGE

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>I have had it with Recieving Phising Emails
>Posted by: “Cy Witherspoon”
>Mon Dec 3, 2007 12:13 pm (PST)
>Have you ever received emails from some relative that you don’t know in
>Nigeria, UK, or some other far land? Explaining that you won/
>inherited some large sum of money?

Dear dotcomeraden! Cy:

I share your frustration. But it IS always NICE to hear from long lost relatives in Area Code 419!

I reformulated some of my form letters that I use (i.e., “Job hunting help”, “why would you want to network with me”, “why would I want to network with you”, and my personal favorite “I’m dropping you from my network, you ass”) to incorporate some of the principles in many of the Nigerian spam letters. Some do a very good job of communicating their feigned concern for the reader’s benefit. Better than my honest concern for the unfortunate job seeker suddenly out of work, or the lost soul who thinks I’m a good networking contact in the “left handed paperhanging field as a right handed paper hanger”. If these folks are successful with these lame excuses for an email, then I want to learn to make my real ones better.

But what really prompted me to write this email is the following comment:

>I am not sure of the legal ramifications, but I am all for some type of
>legislation to ban these types of fraudulent emails.

Oh, please NO! Don’t ask the politicians, who think the inept is a bunch of pipes like plumbing, to “help” us. We’ll be filling out forms for each email , paying more taxes, and be forced to use only approved email vendors. And, who knows what else they will think of?

Remember politicians’ only motive is to be reelected, from whence they can (in priority order): (1) feather their own nest; (2) reward their friends; and (3) punish their enemies. Remember you ask for their help and they see a job for their brother-in-law.

We don’t need legislation. We NEED ivy, public key encryption, and some self-defense.

IVY will give us a fully authentic network; No more forging IP addresses. Public key encryption ensures authenticity of who’s on the other end of the email. And, some self-defense.

I can give you a strategy that have virtually rendered me immune — create dedicated emails. You can use GMAIL’s plus feature. Or just lots of GMAIL ids for dedicated email addresses. Or Yahoo has spamguard. Or, if you have your own domain, then you can spawn all the addresses you need.

So here’s how I have it working, when I sign up for CITIBANK, I give them a unique email address. (It might be MYID+123456 @ gmail.com, FOOTLOOSE-CITI @ yahoo.com, or CITI-123456 @ reinke.cc. It really doesn’t matter.) Any communication coming in purporting to be from CITIBANK, that doesn’t come in on the “correct” email address, is prima facie spam and I delete immediately. One email per sensitive use, and you don’t have to pay any attention to your “relatives” in 419 land.

But, please don’t ask the gooferment to help. The “cure” will be worse that then “disease”.

>dotcomeraden!

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Readers here have seen my use of dotcomeraden. So no need to repeat.

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FROM AN EMAIL ABOUT PLAXO AND PRODUCTIVITY

>In order to use Plaxo though, he has to break up the files into groups under 65,000 which is a royal pain!

Bingo!

I was a fan of classic Plaxo (2?). In Outlook, I had divided my “world view” by community of interest — College alums, LinkedIn, xOldEmployer1, xOldEmployer2, Highschoolchums1, family, friends, acquaintances, dotcomaraden, etc etc. Plaxo1 only did contacts in one Outlook file. So when they then handled for files, all was right with the world. And, Plaxo was very useful. Now with version 3, there are all sorts of limits, and stuff. And, frankly, I don’t think it works. Plaxo is making deals with ISPs and modifying its software for that.

And, they imho have lost their essential value proposition. “Your data about other people can be kept up to date.”

There are certain basic principles that they are forgetting: (1) It’s MY data. (Don’t be “stealing” it for other purposes without my permission AND that of the poor slob who it is about!) (2) It doesn’t matter what they other person says; it’s mine. (I have people who forget who I am putting blanks that Plaxo replicate into my Outlook record. Argh!) (3) What is all this “limits” “barbara streisand”? (If I want to keep track of a million people AND I am paying you, then you figure out how to do it. Don’t tell me — years after we’ve started and you’ve taken my money — that we are now going to have limits!!).

So, clearly, I’m moving away form Plaxo and back to a more manual system. Sadly. I’m interested of what everyone else is doing.

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FROM AN EMAIL ABOUT A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING BLOGGER DOING A BLOG IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH

>(hopefully, it’ll help me on the other hand to polish my English based financial vocabulary),

I’m sure your English is far better than my rudimentary Spanish.

Speaking of “polishing”, my best “practicing” story was when the USAF decided it would be simple a wonderful idea if I learned Thai, …

… (This of course overlooks the fact that -at the time- 95% of the Thais spoke fluent English thanks to the British Crown schools. And 85% could write in English better than we could. It was rumored that there were Thai bumpkins out in the countryside who couldn’t speak the Queen’s English. But I never met anyone who did not speak it perfectly. Humorous to see an Oriental face and hear english with just a hint of Brit accent.) …

… and we would go to our Teacher’s restaurant (Thais are stereotypical hard working folks who likely have a full time job, part time job, a business on the side, and gamble / horsetrade / barter in their spare time. You could get tired watching them.) and she would have us entertain the patrons with our language skills.

Imagine two students standing in front of a room full on natives speaking their language in a simulated conversation about something from a lesson book.

The restaurant patrons would laugh, hoot, and howl. The women would cover their eyes (i.e., how Thai women feign embarrassment). It was “soda thru the nose” time! (Most of them didn’t drink. Smoke like chimneys, yes; drink, no?)

When we graduating, the teacher shared with us that our mispronunciations of the tonal Thai language hit most of the bad words, or made absolutely no sense. Who knew that when we were discussing going to “fly our kites” referred to … … and “drinking bootleg gin” referred to … … Well you get the idea.

BTW business at the restaurant went up 50% when she would announce that her students were “coming for dinner”. She got us there to practice our Thai and learn the local culture. We didn’t know we were the stand up comic act. We were just polishing our language skills.

Having made a complete fool out of myself in front of that audience, you’ll hear no laughing from this end of the wire.

Sa Wah Dee there, partner, polish away. BTW, haven’t spoken any Thai since I left the Air Force decades ago. When I do run across a Thai these days, they still speak perfect English and laugh when I greet them in their native tongue. Maybe I’m offering to fly a kite for them? Any way, nobody dies of embarrassment which is all in one’s own mind. People will probably just think it’s new internet lingo. Or, typos.

:-)

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FROM AN EMAIL BY A FELLOW LINKEDIN-ITE

>Do you use any of the other online networking forums/tools such as Plaxo?

I’m very active on LinkedIn, Facebook, and have accounts on many other sites that I don’t use a lot. New one comes out I try it just to see if it’s the LinkedIn replacement.

I am a blogger here, so I spend a lot of time on that. I frequent a slew of LinkedIn related forums. As well as many Yahoo Groups

Plaxo is a strange duck. As an email address sync tool it was: lame in V1, good in V2, and broken in the new V3, what they call “beta”. I use that and Corex Card Scan, which was flawless, but is now just average and has intermittent problems.

Plaxo is now trying to morph into LinkedIn. LinkedIn is trying to morph into Facebook, Facebook is trying to morph into LinkedIn.

Nobody wants to focus on their own niche and focus on doing that well.

>I’d like to know which is most useful or if they all are useful in their own right.

The problem is no one is satisfied to just do something well. Every one wants to be a “swiss army knife”. SO your “useful” question can NOT be a static answer.

With the new limits of Plaxo and now ISPs becoming involved with Plaxo, it’s all muddled.

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http://www.bubbl.us

***Begin Quote***

“…a free website to help you brainstorm and organize ideas online.” “In traditional brainstorming, or “mind mapping”, one writes a central idea on a piece of paper, draws a circle around it and starts branching off with new ideas, creating a free form diagram.”

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Playing with it and it seem to be intuitive.

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FROM A FELLOW ALUM’S EMAIL

***Begin Quote***

See that’s why the citizens must take great care what they ask government to do. It can’t do it. There are always unintended consequences. And, if it does get anything done, it probably cost an order of magnitude more than it should have!

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So, don’t ask anyone to do anything for you, unless you absolutely have to.

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http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=9758&cn=353

***Begin Quote***

Journaling can provide a good outlet for times when you need to vent but don’t have anyone to vent to. Journaling couldn’t be simpler. You simply write about your experience and emotion. Whatever you might say to a confidant, you can simply write down in a journal entry. In effect, the journal itself becomes your confidant.

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Maybe that’s what I’m doing here?

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Maybe whizdumb is learning from the mistakes of others?

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/11/word_of_the_year.html

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aging in place: the process of growing older while living in one’s own residence, instead of having to move to a new home or community

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There’s a lot to be said for this strategy. I always rant that “two moves equal one fire”. And, the old neighborhood is a well known turf. To pull this off, there will have to be changes in the property tax meme in New Jersey. And, you have to drive everywhere, so that’s a problem later in life. And, and, and, … sigh, there are a lot of issues with the strategy. Nothing insurmountable, but issues to be dealt with. But, then nothing is ever perfect.

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/110707-10-career-killers-to.html?t51hb

10 career killers to avoid
By Thomas Hoffman, Computerworld, 11/07/07

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1. Failing to have a life plan. “This is the No. 1 biggest mistake that I run into with my clients. I work with a number of clients in IT, many of whom are in C-level roles. A life plan is a business plan, in the same way that a company leader creates an annual business plan for what the future is going to bring from a corporate perspective. Three life aspects to focus on include one’s career, personal and family, and financial goals.

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Great advice.

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http://www.emailjoke.com/page52.html

TOP1050. Two Priests…

***Begin Quote***

Two priests died at the same time and met Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter said, “I’d like to get you guys in now, but our computer’s down. You’ll have to go back to Earth for about a week, but you can’t go back as priests. What’ll it be?”

The first priest says, “I’ve always wanted to be an eagle, soaring above the Rocky mountains.”

“So be it,” says St. Peter, and off flies the first priest.

The second priest mulls this over for a moment and asks, “Will any of this week ‘count’, St. Peter?”

“No, I told you the computer’s down. There’s no way we can keep track of what you’re doing.”

“In that case,” says the second priest, “I’ve always wanted to be a stud.”

“So be it” says St. Peter, and the second priest disappears.

A week goes by, the computer is fixed, and the Lord tells St. Peter to recall the two priests. “Will you have any trouble locating them?” He asks.

“The first one should be easy,” says St. Peter. “He’s somewhere over the Rockies, flying with the eagles. But the second one could prove to be more difficult.”

“Why?” asketh the Lord.

“He’s on a snow tire, somewhere in North Dakota.”

***End Quote***

Here’s a funny reminder to get agreement on a common vocabulary. More mismatches occur than you can believe. It’s a common human failing.

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FROM AN EMAIL INQUIRING ABOUT BULLETS

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I actually have another side question. I am a big fan of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done.” I recently was looking over a recommendation that you made of someone mentioning an encoded value you put next to someone’s number which told you “to return the call, regardless of rain or shine.” I was curious about your thoughts on personal work flow and automation. What silver bullets do you have in your arsenal that you would be willing to share?

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Ahhh, so it’s some of me silver bullets ye want, argh, do think them there bullets grow on trees, me bucky?

I haven’t found anything in the way of silver bullets. I too would love if GTD was easier than it is. Nothing is organized for GTD.

One think that I do is in LookOut, in the FileAs field for a contact, which you can’t see, is your name field says “XXXXyour last name,your first nameXXXX [LKDN] [HH3] [UNK] [ZO] [ZE]”. Now if you’ve read my stuff, you’ll know that “HH3” has special meaning (The codes all do but that extraneous for this email.):

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HH1 Gold (got interviews – the gold standard of hunters),
HH2 (Did great but never delivered an interview),
HH3 Average,
HH4 Below Average (talks a great game but delivered nothing while waste copious amounts of time),
HH5 Don’t bother (In some way really annoyed me, dropped the ball, does NOT play nice).
*** end quote ***

You’d also see things like LKDN1-5, MCALUM1-5, and all sorts of other strange initials usually with 1-5 after them. The absence of a 1-5 means I haven’t formed an opinion.

I have played with all sorts of software. None has done thinks “my way”.

You’ll also notice that I have a large number of email accounts — probably in the neighborhood of 200. Each “activity” has its own email account. {That’s how I know, for example, that an ebay message on a networking account is prima facie a spam or phish.} And in LookOut, I group inboxes into priority buckets. So PriorityOne is family, friends, my lawyer, my accountant, and my broker … AND all the people who are PRIORITY ONE. After that I I have different priorities reflecting my interests. So my Jasper Jottings activities are Priority Six. Any way, long and short. I can look at my LookOut inboxes and NATURALLY spend my time on higher priority activities.

I use a little utility note2email http://www.note2email.com/ to send myself email which in the subject line I put “keys” that sort into the correct email box. I also use a utility called texter http://lifehacker.com/software//lifehacker-code-texter-windows-238306.php to handle all sorts of keystrings (i.e., email addresses; key codes for subject lines).

So no “silver bullets” just trying to get by.

l8r,
fjohn

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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HomelandStupidity/~3/175170720/

TSA screeners fail most bomb tests
By Michael Hampton on TSA

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Transportation Security Administration screeners at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport missed more than 60% of bomb components which undercover agents attempted to smuggle through airport checkpoints, according to a classified report. The January 2007 report, obtained by USA TODAY, also said that screeners at Los Angeles International Airport failed to detect the bomb parts and fake explosives about 75 percent of the time. But screeners at San Francisco, who work for a private contractor under a pilot program, missed only 20% during a recent round of red team testing by the Department of Homeland Security.

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There’s an old wall street expression that says “when you’re in a hole, stop digging!”

Perhaps it’s time for us to dig the TSA a grave. With the best of intentions, it was supposed to keep us safe. I’d say it’s an idea who’s time has past. Long past.

Give the pilot and co-pilot a side arm. (They were packing for a while when they did mail runs.) Passengers are not going to stand idly by any more while someone drives a plane into a building. Return security to the airlines where it should have been all along.

Move on to real scary things, like the gooferment flying nukes over America.

Sigh!

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http://www.bloglines.com

***Begin Quote***

Why does Bloglines Offer Email Accounts?

Bloglines free email accounts allow people to receive email newsletter subscriptions within their MyBloglines page. This helps to reduce traffic through your primary email inbox and helps to contain the spam menace. A Bloglines email account gives you a trump card when a newsletter breaks the rules of opt-in marketing. When you unsubscribe from a Bloglines email subscription, the email address disappears. You never have to worry about trying to find the unsubscribe instructions for an unwanted mailing list.

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This is useful in that email ezines really shouldn’t be in your email flow. An rss reader is “better” imho.

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http://www.commoncraft.com/transcript-social-networking-plain-english

Transcript: Social Networking in Plain English

***Begin Quote***

Networks get things done. Whether it’s sending a letter or lighting your home. Networks make it happen.

***and***

This solves a real world problem because your network has hidden opportunities. Social networking sites make these connections between people visible.

Like a map for a highway, they can show you the people network that can help you get to your next destination, whether it’s a job, a new partner, or a great place to live. Your network is suddenly more useful.

***End Quote***

One think that basic explanations do is force one to examine one’s thinking. The memes that we are operating under.

In this case, using a social networking website is NOT imho networking. It may facilitate networking, but it ain’t getting out an establishing that “weak bond” of mutual cooperation.

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