Monthly Archives: June 2012

Stuck in an Elevator

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My wife just texted me from her phone – she was stuck in a tiny elevator in Milan.

Got stuck in a tiny elevator!!!!!!!

Followed immediately by this:

I can’t breathe!

I called the hotel to find out what was going on – they said that they were aware of the issue and a technician was on the way to fix it.  While we were waiting for her release I tried to give good safety advice; the basics “Don’t get out between floors,” “Make sure the car has stopped completely before you try to get out,” etc. Continue reading →

A Distillation of Sun Tzu’s Art of War

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Friend Todd Kuipers (@toddkuipers) sent along a link to an interesting post this week from Eric Barker at www.bakadesuyo.com on what we can learn from Sun Tzu’s Art of War.

Highlights include:
All warfare is based on deception
Rapidity is the essence of war
An army without spies is like a man without ears or eyes
Preparation is everything
Excellence is breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting
How to lead and
How do deal with the enemy

Barker closes out the article by saying that he doesn’t think that Sun Tzu’s Art of War should be applied to most situations of conflict – the issues that most of us deal with are better handled with the tools of negotiation than war.

The article is well thought out and informative- check it out here.

Tricking-out Your OmniFocus Perspectives Video Summary

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This is part 3 of a 3 part series-  “Tricking-out Your OmniFocus Perspectives Video Summary”.

As mentioned in my previous posts in this series, I had links to a few videos saved in Instapaper for a about a year because I didn’t make the time to sit down and work through them for the full two and a half hours.  Once I spent the time, however, I found some of the information useful and so have decided to provide this distillation of information that I took from them in order to (hopefully) save you some time.

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Working with the OmniFocus Bookmarklet in iOS Video Summary

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This is part 2 of a 3 part series-  “Working the the OmniFocus Bookmarklet in iOS Video Summary”.

I had links to a few videos saved in Instapaper for a very long time because I didn’t make the time to sit down and watch the full two and a half hours of video.  Once I took the time, however, I found it useful and so have decided to provide this distillation of information that I took from them in order to (hopefully) save you some time.

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OmniFocus Ninja Tricks Video Summary

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It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Instapaper, but sometimes it brings out the worst in me in terms of procrastination.  This is ironic since the topic of this post is OmniFocus, which should, in theory, be just the tool to help me overcome this disability.

At some point, I came across (probably via the OmniGroup twitter feed) a series of videos from Omni at MacWorld (2011) with tips and tricks on how to get the most out of OmniFocus.  Since I usually read my twitter feed on the go, a lot of interesting stuff ends up in Instapaper to languish until I can spend the time going through whatever it was I found interesting to begin with.  That was especially the case with these three videos as between the three of them it was two and a half hours of watching to do.

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