Getting Things Done – On Deferring

One of my biggest gripes with Getting Things Done since I started trying to heed its sage wisdom in 2004 was once you make these lists, they are your new psychic hell. I have been experiencing that for a while now. Basically, you need to go through your inbox one item at a time and decide to do it if it takes less than 2 minutes, defer it, or delegate it. Delegation doesn’t really happen that often for personal lists, so you have a huge pile of “deferred” – a bunch of stuff that isn’t in your inbox because you’ve already looked at it, but you haven’t done it because it takes more than 2 minutes.

What the hell do you do with that stuff?

We’re Throwing A Party Here This Friday

can’t doubt it

gotta shout it

sean + paul

having a party, this friday, 2007-11-16

see our web flyer for .infos

[http://www.pauloppenheim.com/misc/party-2007-11/](http://www.pauloppenheim.com/misc/party-2007-11/)

Second Life, CSI Style

A recent CSI:NY episode revolved around Second Life. Unlike your average CSI episode, there was no solution to the murders in the episode – you had to log into [Virtual CSI: NY](http://alpha.cbs.com/primetime/csi_ny/second_life/) in SL to find out what happens next. I think the episode (show?) is cheesy, but a good opportunity to get into SL with a “goal”. If you have tried SL before and didn’t quite know what to do next, this might be worth trying for you. Likewise if you don’t understand why virtual worlds are going to be relevant for a long time coming. Trailer with a delicious quote from Gary Sinese after the jump…