So, in the true spirit of giving (or perhaps the spirit of “eww… here, you smell it”) give this a watch:
IT’S NOT MY FAULT! Fellow Tweep @PutrPrsn infected my head with this yesterday and it’s stuck in there worse than that space trilobyte thing in Checkov’s ear in Wrath of Khan.
No not THAT itch (truth be told I’ve never had THAT itch, phew.)
Anyone but me pathologically hate the font on this site? It’s just too…wiry for me. Plus there’s nothing in the template but standard “this is my first blog” goofiness. You’d never know I’d been doing this for *gasp* 7? Can it be 7 years?
*blink* *blink*
Mentioned this a week and a half ago: The Autofocus System and here’s why it’s instawin over things like GTD, etc.
I’ve been using it heavily for two weeks… and haven’t noticed.
By “haven’t noticed” I mean that it so quickly and seamlessly became a part of my day that it had almost zero learning curve.
Brings me to an interesting note that I’ll put here as a sidebar in the hopes that it helps remind me to think if not write about it later: The length/height of the learning/adoption curve did NOT outstrip the fascination of it’s novelty. As such I was able to put it in to practice and get used to it while it was still neat. That’s interesting.
I’ve gotten more of those mid to long term items crossed off in the past couple weeks than I had in the previous year. You know that list. The things roughly describable as “chores.” (Clean out that pile of god knows what at the bottom of the bedroom closet, at the top of the bedroom closet, next to the bed, under the bed, behind the bed, at the foot of the bed, at the head of the bed…) It turns out a lot of my “chores” seem to be wading through the standard accretion of sedimentary rock around the paths between the computer, couch, fridge, bed, and bathroom that make up bachelor life.
The big reason is that the Autofocus thing gives you permission to work on something “a bit.” Then, you get to cross it off the list. Of course, if it’s not done you just add it again to the bottom. But it’s ok because you get to do stuff and cross it off a list, which I’d say is ‘the ultimate reinforcement’ but I used to know this girl who had much more convincing ways of… well, nevermind. You get the picture.
Yep. So go check it out if you hadn’t before.
Once He Walks Through JoAnn's Door, a Man Starts to Die
Girlfriend, holding up scrapbook thing: Do you like this?
Boyfriend: Yeah, it's nice.
Girlfriend: “It's nice,” because it's nice, or “it's nice,” so we can get the fuck out of here?
JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts
Tacoma, Washington
Overheard by: baker98391
via Overheard Everywhere, Apr 26, 2009
