While this blog is written to explore Time Management 2.0, I am starting to think that there is an argument for Time Management 1.0.
What’s the difference?
In Time Management 1.0, users were told to follow a prescription laid out by a guru.   The details were quite specific — follow this, do that, organize yourself this way, […]

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I just came across an interesting technique for time management, which takes its name from the Italian word for “tomato.”
I briefly glanced through the pdf and decided to post it online to encourage others to read it and provide feedback here.  In the next week or so, I’ll also read it, and post up a […]

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One of the mysteries of managing my email has been trying to figure out how to manage follow-up email.
The scenario is well-know to users of Outlook or any other email program.
You send an email to someone who you need a response from.  To compound matters, the response is needed by a certain time so that […]

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Bit Literacy has some sound advice when it comes to reading and processing  electronic newsletters (or zines.)
The first recommendation is to scan newsletters once before deleting them.
I began this practice about a year ago, and have found that it works much better then trying to shove all my newsletters into a single folder in Outlook.  […]

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One of the key recommendations of Bit Literacy is that one should take todos and schedule them onto lists that belong to particular days. It argues that a single todo list quickly becomes overwhelming, and that the items should instead be allocated to lists that belong to separate days in the future.
It’s not a […]

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In Bit Literacy, the author makes a brilliant insight, which confirms for me that the book is probably 3-5 years ahead of its time.
He quotes a book by Richard Saul Wurman from 1989 titled Information Anxiety: “One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know […]

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One confusing aspect of Bit Literacy is a contradiction  that I found in the discussion around ToDo’s:  the book calls for scalable solutions, while in the same chapter it describes 2 solutions that seem to ignore that sound advice, because they scale well.
The author makes the point that many emails create the need to engage […]

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Another one of the key ideas in Bit Literacy is that “letting bits go” is a critical frame of mind to maintain.
Letting bits go simply means that a user of an email system is better off deleting freely, early and often, rather than keeping stuff around just in case it’s needed later.  Mark Hurst, the […]

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As I mentioned in a prior post, there is a great deal that I enjoyed from the book “Bit Literacy” by Mark Hurst.  In particular, the idea of returning to “empty” struck a chord with me.
If you are a frequent reader of this website you might imagine why, because I have described “Emptying” as one […]

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There is a major point from the book Bit Literacy that I found some disagreement with.  The idea that “bits are heavy” is fundamental to Mark Hurst’s theory that when they accumulate, the create a burden a user’s life.
He’s right about that, but he’s missing the point that bits by themselves are meaningless.
This can be […]

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