These are musings/artifacts from the wanderings of a distracted visionary developing his trigger finger. Think of them not as the dictations of a man with it all together, but rather, communications tapped out in half-remembered morse code, from a Jonah in a whale, not sure where he is headed, but assuming there's a destination. Hence, like a Jonah, I send out a nice mix of insights from the inside and cries for help. andrewmwhaley@gmail.com.
The Alternative Productivity Manifesto | The Growing Life | Alternative Productivity, Anti-Hacks for Living I read this and got a little ranty, but when someone tries to turn a friend into a strawman, you gotta have their back. My comment for him: “So, David Allen walks into a coffeehouse, orders a Italian-style cappuccino, and proceeds to plop into a big easy chair sideways and does nothing. The barista/owner walks over and gives him his coffee and… What’s the punchline? There is none, it really happened- in my shop- last week. See, David happens to be a friend of mine and I’ve seen him do nothing better than anyone I know. I owned an uber-small micro business and was a student when I started using GTD. It saved my life. I now own a very small, currently very slow, little coffeehouse, in a very small town in CA. It is true that a lot of big companies use GTD to squeeze the most results out of their employees, but if you do that, in this modern economy, and don’t give them more money, time, freedom, or other things of value, you have an empty desk and new guy to get productive quick. I have had one of those strange circuitous life plans and GTD has helped clear my head enough to actually be present to lessons learned in it. I’m new to your blog, and only read this one entry, so I will read more and subsribe for a bit, but it seems you make the mistake of confusing the fans for the person the’re following and his message. I like Elivs, but can’t stand Elvis fans. Is that the King’s fault? I suggest you go read GTD again and hear what DA is actally saying, not what is said by a bunch techy nerds, hell-bent on productivity as the nerd chic dujour. The whole GTD thing is for changing the world and your self, in the way you want to, with as little effort and as much downtime as possible. In short, the guy your describing wouldn’t give a damn about a little guy like me, but David cares for and helps a lot of little guys like me. Don’t mean to rant, but I think you might have missed the big picture, hidden behind the labelers, list, and hipster pdas- it’s about people not productivity.”

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I read this and got a little ranty, but when someone tries to turn a friend into a strawman, you gotta have their back. My comment for him:

“So, David Allen walks into a coffeehouse, orders a Italian-style cappuccino, and proceeds to plop into a big easy chair sideways and does nothing. The barista/owner walks over and gives him his coffee and… What’s the punchline? There is none, it really happened- in my shop- last week. See, David happens to be a friend of mine and I’ve seen him do nothing better than anyone I know. I owned an uber-small micro business and was a student when I started using GTD. It saved my life. I now own a very small, currently very slow, little coffeehouse, in a very small town in CA. It is true that a lot of big companies use GTD to squeeze the most results out of their employees, but if you do that, in this modern economy, and don’t give them more money, time, freedom, or other things of value, you have an empty desk and new guy to get productive quick. I have had one of those strange circuitous life plans and GTD has helped clear my head enough to actually be present to lessons learned in it. I’m new to your blog, and only read this one entry, so I will read more and subsribe for a bit, but it seems you make the mistake of confusing the fans for the person the’re following and his message. I like Elivs, but can’t stand Elvis fans. Is that the King’s fault? I suggest you go read GTD again and hear what DA is actally saying, not what is said by a bunch techy nerds, hell-bent on productivity as the nerd chic dujour. The whole GTD thing is for changing the world and your self, in the way you want to, with as little effort and as much downtime as possible. In short, the guy your describing wouldn’t give a damn about a little guy like me, but David cares for and helps a lot of little guys like me. Don’t mean to rant, but I think you might have missed the big picture, hidden behind the labelers, list, and hipster pdas- it’s about people not productivity.”