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 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 […]
Posted in getting things done, gtd, idling, procrastinating, procrastination, productivity, sloth, slow, unproductivity, work on Mar 24th, 2008
Is that the time? Really?
Ah well, eight months since the last post might be a disaster if this blog was concerned with maximising your productivity, or how to be a millionaire by the time you are twenty, or how to achieve a three hour work week (a simple plan: undercut the four hour work week […]
Posted in "business bullshit", "work ethic", getting things done, productivity, slow, unproductivity, work on Jun 2nd, 2007
“In other words, what looks like wasting time from where you sit, could be a whirl of creative thought from where I sit. And, with due respect to Mr. Gilbreth, all the energy that’s been poured into trying to force everyone to work at the same pace and in the same way — it […]
Posted in creativity, getting things done, lifehacks, procrastinating, procrastination on Mar 25th, 2007
You can’t click a link on the web without stumbling over yet more advice on how to avoid procrastination. So we at the The Sloth Ethic thought that we would jump on the bandwagon outline our approach to overcoming procrastination, and getting things done. To rush into these things only reinforces your procrastinating tendencies, so […]
Posted in getting things done, lifehacks, moleskine, productivity, unproductivity on Mar 6th, 2007
Save money on new books! Buy a large moleskine, and a very fine-tipped pen. Lurk in bookshops copying word for word the books you want to read, so you can read them later and for free. If you get to page fifty, and decide that it’s rubbish, simply cross out your transcription, move on to […]