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“O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t!” -Miranda, from “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare This past weekend, I accepted the role of Chief Technology Officer for BraveNewTalent, a social recruitment startup based in London. At the David Allen Company, I
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you may be fierce and original in your work.” -Gustave Flaubert This morning, I wrote an email to the editor of a poetry journal, eight months after I sent him some poems, to confirm my suspicion that my poems had been lost in the mail. It
I would not have been able to complete an MFA in writing poetry while holding down a job as a technology executive had I not been a longtime practitioner of the GTD® methodology. In a recently released podcast, David Allen, my boss and the inventor of GTD, asked me about how the GTD concept of
I leave tomorrow for the inaugural GTD Summit in San Francisco. Think TED for knowledge workers. The sheer density of thought leaders per square inch is staggering. In particular, I am looking forward to seeing James Fallows, a writer-hero of mine, along with scores of technology, productivity, and innovation experts. This is going to be
I deeply regret to inform you that my illustrious colleague Eric Mack has revealed the real secret to my success. This doesn’t just apply to technology, folks. Any poem I attempt that takes more than two minutes to write gets likewise round-filed. Clearly, haiku is about all I have time for, and usually without all
