There’s a change in my ways of thinking that occurred because of my experiences with Katrina. I know that it has happened to others as well.
It’s not quite post-traumatic stress disorder, maybe a step below. I notice it in little things. For instance…
I had a safe deposit box in the Chase at the corner [...]

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I’ve talked in the past about the problem of access to journals. It varies drastically between institutions. Here at JHU, our access is pretty good. However, I’d say it was better, and certainly more convenient, at Washington University in St.Louis. But really, it shouldn’t matter what institution you’re affiliated with. Peer-reviewed research, and especially government [...]

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It occurred to me this past weekend that I use my RSS aggregator like an inbox. I have long since quit categorizing my feeds. Rather, I just view them as a “river of news”, reading them in the order in which they arrive. This isn’t really interesting.
What is is how I process them. As [...]

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I’m going to go out for drinks after work, and then who knows what, so I decide to walk rather than bike — I don’t want to have to worry about the bike’s whereabouts. The wind is also 20-25 miles per hour, with gusts of up to 45. I’d rather not be knocked over [...]

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Getting Things Done is generally platform agnostic, with perhaps a slight bias toward paper. As such, people have implemented it any number of ways. I doubt any two people have the same methods. This leaves some gray areas, one of which is how to associate Next Actions with projects. It has plagued me since [...]

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