Image from lifehacker I use Firefox regularly for testing, but Chrome has been my default browser on OS X for a few years. Yesterday I used Firefox again the whole day as the latest Dev Cha...

Why is everyone disappointed by Google buying Nest?<blockquote class="tr_bq">Instead, there’s a chorus of concern — some sincere, some contrived, but all of it grounded in fear of an unchecke...

Photo by Matthias Buehler As Randy Pausch said, “Yes, you are going to have to change the plan. But you can’t change it, unless you have it”. I like what @buster says about sharing resolu...

About a month and a half ago, at the end of September, I wrote about setting up a “GTD review buddy system” with Alex. I can report that it went pretty well: Alex and I did 7 GTD review session...

About a month and a half ago, at the end of September, I wrote about setting up a “GTD review buddy system” with Alex. I can report that it went pretty well: Alex and I did 7 GTD review session...

There is a side project which I started last year but which I haven’t had much time to work on so far. Suffice it to say that it involves researching the history of the organ, and I was recently re...

The Importance of the Afterlife. SeriouslyI get the point Samuel Scheffler makes about humanity losing purpose if “the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed 30 days after your death”. Bu...

I try to stay reasonably productive at work and at home with a variation on the GTD system. Several aspects of that system work quite well, but one thing I have been really terrible at doing is the...

This weekend I reorganized my iPhone home screen like this: iPhone Home Screen I tried not to fill the entire screen, keeping one full row empty and one spot in the bottom row, to encourag...

2030s Cognitive Machines: a glimpse of life in a future wonderworld Getting ready to fly to a conference, my auto-drive electric car rolls its top down on this warm day In this article, you have: “...