The Best GTD Post I’ve Read in Like…Forever.
September 15th, 2008Categories | Getting Things Done | Implementation | inspiration
Chris Bowler of the Weekly Review has written a post I call a must read. He talks of discipline and priorities and tweaking your system and in my opinion does a truly incredible job of putting into perspective something that I think anyone that’s done GTD for any length of time probably realizes at some instinctive level but probably can’t pull from subconscious to runway. Now we don’t have to because Chris does so for us with eloquence.
Chris, if ever you feel like contributing to GTDtimes we would be honored.
Wow, that was mundane and poorly written. I’d say your eye for quality is lacking.
Dave,
The “quality” of anything is highly subjective. In fact, defining quality with any degree of accuracy is a nearly impossible enterprise. If you don’t believe me read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance or better yet, Lila . Perhaps if you did you’d realize that questioning an individual’s eye for quality is about like me telling you what your favorite color is.
This is especially true when you don’t know (since you haven’t inquired) what my criteria might be for making a determination about quality. If this site was devoted to literary criticism then it would be a more reasonable remark that something was amiss in my judgment as regards this particular post (or really the one to which this post refers). However, this site is devoted to supporting and informing the community of people that have an interest in David Allen’s productivity strategy called “Getting Things Done”. To that end part of what guides my decision making process is the contemporaneous nature of a post, how frequently the topic of the post is mentioned across other sites, how significant the topic might be in the general GTD arena (itself a subjective call on my part), and how relevant the post is to other discussions that are happening either here or in other venues where GTD is a topic of discussion.
With respect to those criteria stated above in addition to others that I use to make my editorial decisions I still believe - even inclusive of your opinion to the contrary - that this was an excellent post and one which was certainly worth being pointed out so that the community at large could benefit from the thoughts of the individual that had done the writing.
Of course the ultimate proof that I am reasonably good at determining what is or is not of interest to the community is the readership of this and the other sites where I myself post content or link to content created by others. Seeing as how I have managed to have accrued millions upon millions of page views for the sites I edit my “eye for quality” as you put it, must not suck quite as badly as you apparently think it does.
Of course that too is merely my opinion - you are certainly entitled to yours, I to mine. Shall we leave it at that?