• Organization,  Simplify

    Simplifying My Books

    It's not springtime, so I can't blame the urge to spring clean. All I know is that I walked around my house last week and got the overwhelming urge to purge. I always start is my books because I can go through them rapidly. Here is how I make this less painful and get them out of my house.

  • Productivity

    Why Task Lists Will Not Make You Productive

    An acquaintance of mine is constantly making lists. She makes them on old envelopes, scratch pads, her phone, her laptop, her email and even her hand. Yet she is one of the most scattered, disorganized and unproductive people I know. She doesn't know the secret: lists alone won't make you productive.

  • Simplify

    The Value Of Accuracy

    It was an early morning class. We walked in to find the dreaded dragon of the beginning circuits class - the class known as a weeder class to cull out the below-average students. But instead of an ogre, the man at the front of the class resembled nothing so much as Papa Smurf. Except taller. And he looked at us and said "75% of you will flunk this class."