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Hurry, or Something Smells Here [Archive]
Hurry, or Something Smells Here
When I think about various problems organizations face, especially recurring ones, the most characteristic symptom that something is wrong is hurry.
Read MoreBeing Busy is an Easy Way
The Challenge of Simplifying Life
I have had a great opportunity to take part in a kind of experiment. I consciously got rid of most tasks from my personal and professional life that I considered not to be fully joyful and purposeful. What I expected was that I would be more focused on things that really matter to me and I could consciously choose what to do (and what not to do).
Read MoreTechnical Leader Worries: I Have Too Many Things to Do
Technical Leader Worries: I Have Too Many Things to Do
Those wonderful days when the only thing you did was writing code are gone. Now you are a leader. You are doing everything: attending or conducting meetings, removing impediments, mediating between team members and the rest of the organization, reading or writing some kind of reports (and you deceive yourself that spending two hours in Excel counts as programming because of some smartly used formulas) and so on. You are in a hurry all the time, and it never ends.
Read MoreDon't Be Too Quick, Start Thinking!
Don’t Be Too Quick, Start Thinking!
Sometimes I feel like the world has become too fast. Everything happens so quickly that we switch to autopilot and stop thinking about why and for what purpose we are doing a task. Are we doing it in the way we imagined, or the way someone else suggested?
Read MoreThe Key to Time Management
There are several topics that constantly come to my mind and, with each new discovery, I reach a new level of understanding. One such topic is “time management.”
Read MoreThe Hyper-Optimizer of Time
The Hyper-Optimizer of Time
May 21, 2009 - my last entry… quite a bit of sand has flowed through the hourglasses. The arrival of a small being in my life changed a lot, but slowly :) I’m returning to the world of the living. To start off, here’s my first post after the break.
Read MoreEase of Access Over Information Organization
Ease of Access Over Information Organization
Recently, I’ve been experimenting with various ways to access information remotely from anywhere. My primary tool has been SVN, which works great for software projects, but it’s not as effective for document storage in my case. There are two reasons for this:
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