Silver Clipboard: Time Management Skills and Personal Productivity Tools

In the movie The Fifth Element, Bruce Willis lives in a tiny, cluttered mess of an apartment. The room is filled with junk except for one spot on the wall stenciled with the words: “KEEP CLEAR”.
For many people, their desk is like that apartment: stuff everywhere. It’s overwhelming and mentally draining to have [...]

Ever notice that the first ten hits on google are almost identical, no matter the search term? The first link is wikipedia and the remaining nine are commercial sites. Getting tired of that yet? I know I am.
The book The Perfect Mess suggests a different kind of search engine: Banana Slug. [...]

Everyone loves Moleskine notebooks. The rounded pages that don’t fray, the faux-leather cover and strap that let you feel secretly pretentious. A new moleskine smells like a fresh library. For office supply lovers, they are perfection.
Don’t use them.
If you keep a Moleskine to jot down notes and ideas, your pen will never [...]

Too much organization has its disadvantages. That is the thesis of A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder by Eric Abrahamson and David H Freedman. In their book the authors go through examples where over-organization is detrimental and mess should be allowed to grow.
Take, for example, governor Schwarzenegger of California. According [...]

When starting with Getting Things Done, the weekly review is the most hassle and seems the least important. Why, if you are following such a perfect system, do you even need a weekly review?
The dark secret of the weekly review is that what you actually need is an imperfect system. Life isn’t perfect, [...]