Pre-emptive Actions As A Strategy For Self Control
Via @janchip
20 November 2009
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sometimes when you get the blues there might be a damned good reason
via bukowski.net
I just did something I hadn't done in a while.
I purchased an honest-to-goodness book. In a bookstore. That is made of paper and glue and cardboard and ink.
Cringe-bust your to-Do List:
Ever notice how some items seem permanently stuck on your to-do list? Days, weeks, seasons may fly by and the same three or four hoary old tasks stare back at you, stroking their beards and cackling. Chances are you’ve stopped mentally processing these to-dos as tasks in the world and now just let your eyes fly past them so as to minimize the guilt, pain, and cringing that they cause you.
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Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part II | 43 Folders
I’m wondering if late 2009, Inbox Zero book development angst era Merlin has anything to add to the excellent 2005 Merlin passage (briefly excerpted above and also described here) about de-cringing lists.
[Umberto] Eco: … Google makes a list, but the minute I look at my Google-generated list, it has already changed. These lists can be dangerous — not for old people like me, who have acquired their knowledge in another way, but for young people, for whom Google is a tragedy. Schools ought to teach the high art of how to be discriminating.
If there’s a crazy man staring into the sun, shoot at f16.
If there’s smog and a crazy man is about to be attacked by a shark, shoot at f11.
If it’s smoggy and there are sky turds, shoot at f8.
If the sky turds are higher than the sun, shoot at f5.6.
If you see a garden slug with a turd on its head, shoot it at f4.
If you’re about to be run over by a docking ocean liner, @##$@!
Makes a nice color palette.
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This is insane. Read about little, unassuming checkboxes and links that show up at the end of transactions with reputable companies, that generate $2000 CPMs. They also generate 98% of their call volume for cancellation of the services they offer.
