Organize IT

When I wrote seven reasons why you should ditch your PDA and switch to pen and paper it touched a nerve with a lot of you and I got a lot of very interesting remarks. A particular theme was how with the pen and paper approach you couldn’t search or backup your content. One suggestion was to use an index. As for backup…

Organize IT Recap for 16th May 2008.

• The long awaited follow-up to Getting Things Done has a name. It is called Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life. GTD Times says the book will apply GTD in a much broader way, covering work and life. This seems very fitting given how productivity has evolved in recent times. Clearly he’s been reading a lot of blogs!
• With productivity and what it means to people now that the traditional perspective of just being able to do more is waning, I’m currently seeking all your feelings on the subject. If you haven’t already, please leave a comment sharing your thoughts.
• Ok, a gaming related link for here, if you are not interested in computer games and playstations I apologize. Recently I bought Bioshock for the PC only to find it has very specific requirements to run it. I was pretty annoyed to say the least. To avoid this happening again in the future, I’ve come across a cool site that scans your system specs to see if it will run particular games. Very useful.
• Self help books are big business and when you catch the bug you can end up buying entire shelves of them. A lot of these self help writers cunningly propose you actually buy as many as you can to help with your personal growth. Cunning! However it’s not actually necessary as Shanel Yang gives five ways of trimming down the books you buy so you only get the ones you can actually use for your own personal needs.

There are enough bloggers (including yours truly) who write about personal productivity but what is it really all about? Last week I came across the alternative productivity manifesto at The Growing Life which introduced some very interesting ideas. One of those was how productivity is an industrial era economics term. How come then, are we applying it to ourselves? What can we really learn from our ratio of output per hour?

Customer service is an increasingly big issue for people nowadays, with many companies getting shot down for not being able to provide even the basics. The focus is so much on money, profit and keeping shareholders happy. With such vast company structures, the people who run things are so far removed from their customers that showing loyalty to businesses no longer means anything. In fact it can cause us to lose out on better service and better deals. Below are the three big reasons why you shouldn’t give companies your loyalty. You won’t get any back.

This video was entered into an AARP video contest and is one of the smartest, most encouraging videos I’ve seen in a long time. Be sure to watch all of it to get the full message. It will surely give you something to think about.