Well, here’s a morbidly interesting link that Hacker News pointed me to this morning: Dead Man’s Switch.  Set up an account to e-mail your loved ones, lawyers, enemies, etc. if tragedy were to befall you.  By default, if you don’t check in (e.g., respond to e-mail messages) within 60 days, the service assumes you’ve passed [...]

Day 1 of getting back to GTD and org-mode was an unqualified success.  I went through all my tasks this morning, identified the next steps on my current projects, and dove into work.  It ended up being a very productive day, though I was definitely mentally drained when I got home.  It was freeing (at [...]

In my push to exert more willpower in my life and tackle lingering todo items, I’m drawn back to an ever-present problem: how to keep track of everything on my plate.  In thinking about this, and cleaning out old blog ideas, I came across another old (October, 2010) article in my bookmarks: Is there such a thing as [...]

At least, this is what I need to keep telling myself, apparently.  Closing in on a year ago now, Standford had an article about some of their researchers who published an article finding that willpower isn’t consumed as we usually believe: “If you think of willpower as something that’s biologically limited, you’re more likely to be tired when [...]

Last post was the beginning of July…  Since then, my blog has been a blank piece of paper staring back at me waiting for me to create something awesome (good, mediocre, etc.).  At least once a week I come across something in programming, photography, or just general interest that I think I should write something [...]