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Distractions
2/5/2022:Many years ago I organized my life around email, following David Allen’s Getting Things Done. It worked very well for years. Between the Inbox and the Tasks sections of Microsoft Outlook, all of the projects I am working on reside. But I am now questioning, as I explore Deep Work, whether Outlook is the right…
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Financial Software
2/4/2022:I am a long-time user of QuickBooks and Quicken. With the closing of my various companies, I did not feel the need to continue paying Intuit for the QuickBooks subscription. I had not realized that stopping my payment would make my data inaccessible. Quicken was not downloading data from my accounts well and I needed…
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Distractions
2/2/2022:Yesterday driving between the Champlain Islands and the Adirondacks I listened to a Hidden Brian podcast, You 2.0: Deep Work. Shanar Vedantam (Host) was interviewing Cal Newport, author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. Much of the focus was on the benefits of concentrating for extended periods without distractions. Makes…
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Stoicism
1/26/2022:Yesterday traveling I listened to a Hidden Brain podcast – Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy. The subject was Stoicism. The message was that Stoicism boils down to Do What You Can, With What You Have, Where You Are. Very much a Taoist theme as well.
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