Making a list, checking it weekly, updating it constantly

Posted December 3rd, 2008 by Paul Pettengill with 2 Comments
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There are books that have changed my life to be certain, but I’m not sure that there is a more important book that I can recommend to you than Getting Things Done by David Allen.  I am probably two orders of magnitude (100x) less stressed than I was before I read this book.  I am probably one order of magnitude (10x) more productive since reading this book.  That means my life is probably 1000 times better than it was before I started to read this book.  I’ve never profiled a book here that has the potential to do that for somebody.  I think I will look back a year from now, and say to myself that this book did more to cure the depression I’ve been going through for the last couple of years than the thousands of dollars I’ve spent on therapy.

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Chasm – fun word of the day

Posted November 21st, 2008 by Paul Pettengill with No Comments
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So I was talking with my colleague Jamon Moore at I-many the other day, and he was asking me if I had read anything by Geoffrey Moore (no relation, or so Jamon claims). I had told him the God’s honest truth, which was I’d never heard of him. Looking back, I’m not sure how this could be true. I must have read several books that mentioned him, but for the life of me I can’t think of one.

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