I came across this quote in the subversion book:

“It is important not to let the perfect become the enemy of the good, even when you can agree on what perfect is. Doubly so when you can’t. As unpleasant as it is to be trapped by past mistakes, you can’t make any progress by being afraid [...]

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I had planned, last week, to get rid of a bunch of next actions. That did not go very well. I did get rid of a bunch, but as I did them I got a bunch of new ideas and new Next Actions sprouted up to take their place.
It’s a never-ending battle I tells [...]

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My life is now pretty much back in order. It was rather out of order after 2 months of craziness plus a month of traveling a lot. Nonetheless, I kept capturing thoughts and filing them away in my GTD system, and there they wait. I had a good weekly review on Friday and [...]

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I practice a modified form of Zen meditation. Typically thoughts that come up while sitting should be let to pass by, somewhere off away from your conscious attention.
This is complete anathema to the Getting Things Done methodology.
When I’m meditating, a lot of times things that have been bugging me, things I need to [...]

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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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