Thus begin the first installment of the Productivity & Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Stay tuned for the next 5 (or more) installments detailing everything from organizational mastery within email, on the homefront, within your office, how to douse email insanity, and get clear and stay clear on your todos...
This may be one of the most curmedgeonly posts in the history of blogging. Okay, that's a little extreme, but this does have a critical flavor to it.
One of the most brilliant "insulters" of the 20th century was Roald Dahl.
While I think South Park has become the 21st century internet-infused electronic "Roald Dahl" of sorts, he definitely has a knack for clever insults.
In addition to his ability to "conspire with children against adults" in his stories, one of the things I like most about Roald Dahl (my favorite childhood author by far) was his his affluent allocation of alliteration to assemble literally adroit disparagements. Phrases like "Clotted Carbuncle" and Whangdoodle" or how about "soggy overboiled Cabbage" on for size, astound me in their brilliance and creativity in remaining intelligent while insulting something.
On the nature of disparaging, I've tried reading countless ideas posted by productivity people in a various forums or every article someone writes regarding productivity with as much objectivity as possible, gracefully accepting suggestions for productivity, downloading the necessary apps, and testing out those ideas. I've learned two things from doing this: 1)Remedies for productivity are subjective and 2)Some things you simply must label as "mind-bogglingly dumb" be done with it, and move on.
1)This one is simple. If I'm a farmer
and the bulk of the things I have to do as "@errand tasks" are buy massive amounts of grain for sewing, my "@errands" list is going to look a LOT different and need to have a lot more sub-folders, filtering methods, and reminder methods than the college kid
who needs to load up on Pasta-Roni. Okay, that's a little extreme, but the essence is clear; systems work best for the authors who advertise them. Keep that in mind even while you're reading my suggested methods.
2)Some solutions people have have just so much absence of logic and lack of practicality imbedded in them it's hilarious.
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