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In a recent recap I pointed out a Lifehack.org article arguing that the current climate for hyper-productivity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Then yesterday I came across a similar post, claiming that the pursuit of productivity has ended up out of control. It seems that there is now an increasing shift toward simplifying our lives. Who needs productivity when the amount of stuff you have to deal with is cut in half?

Organize IT recap for 29th February 2008

• It’s interview central at the moment. Firstly Zen Habits has an exclusive interview with Stephen Covey of 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People fame. Next Web Worker Daily has an equally impressive three part discussion with David Allen, who you will no doubt know as the man behind Getting Things Done. Both links will make for fascinating reading.
• It’s all the rage in the business world nowadays to do more with less. That’s all well and good until you find yourself having to serve five impatient customers at once or trying to juggle between an handful of high priority projects at the same time. I’m seeing ripples of discontent towards this attitude at the moment and a lot is being written dismissing it. Lifehack.org has one such article worth checking out. What are your thoughts on current business trends?
• 7P Productions has a very good primer on Getting Things Done. In a recent post asking what readers disliked about GTD, many of you commented on its complexity and how difficult it was to implement it, so posts like this that distill GTD down are always very useful.

I’ve been reading, practicing and blogging about productivity, GTD and various related topics for around two years now. I wish I could remember more clearly what set me on this road, there was certainly no major epiphany or one big moment. I probably came across an interesting article on lifehacking and GTD through Digg or some similar site. It sounded intriguing and useful so I continued to read into it more. I do remember buying Getting Things Done at the airport as reading material for the flight and holiday ahead though though :)

As promised in a recent recap, here is another update to my list of GTD and productivity sites/blogs. The list now has well over 100 links to check out and I’ve changed any old URLs as well as updating the list of dead sites. This is one of the largest collections of links for productivity sites out there right now and it can be a little unwieldy so if I’ve let any errors slip through (wrong links, misspellings, etc) please let me know. I’d also very much appreciate any support you can give in getting the list out there to people. Also, feel free to copy/paste the collection into your blogs, all I ask is that you link back to Organize IT.

Because I just got a DVD set of the show, here is a Scrubs special.

Sean: “You know Freud said that 90% of all human behavior is motivated by sexual impulses. Give me some credit, I would say at least 30% of my behavior is motivated by advertising and the rest by violence in film.”

Turk: “This is the reason why your headache didn’t go away. That’s actually pronounced analgesic, not anal-gesic. Sir, the pills go in your mouth.”

Dr. Cox: “I don’t know if they taught you this in the land of fairies and puppy dog tails where you obviously, if not grew up, then at least spent most of your summers, but you’re in the real world now!”

Janitor: “Some hooligan keeps disconnecting the alarm. I told security to look into it. But no, no, they’d rather catch the guy who’s stealing organs from the transplant ward.”

Dr. Cox: “Couples who are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don’t let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time.”