A blog about not getting things done
Posted in getting things done, gtd, productivity on Apr 24th, 2008
IT TAKES, IT TAKES A BUSY MAN
he hadn’t made a dent
in his list for weeks.
one of the items was “call z.”
then one day z’s wife called to say
that z had died.
he was ashamed to catch himself
indulging in a feeling of accomplishment
as he crossed “call z” off his list.
(a poem by Gerald Locklin, from Children of […]
Posted in slow on Apr 19th, 2008
Slow Planet is now live.
The brainchild of Carl Honoré (author of IN PRAISE OF SLOW), Geir Berthelsen (founder of the The World Institute of Slowness), and Dale+Bang, (a Norwegian communications firm involved in social responsibility work in Third World development and music), Slow Planet is:
…the global meeting place for all things Slow. It is an […]
Posted in getting things done, heroes of sloth, idling, productivity, relaxation, slow, tea, unproductivity on Apr 2nd, 2008
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
I have started this occasional series with a post about Lin Yutang. After all, he’s given this blog its tagline quote, (”If you spend a perfectly useless afternoon in […]