Putting Stuff Away.
posted Feb 27, 2005, 11:37 PM | 2 Comments
Ah, the weekend's end. I've got my $2 white wine and a bowl of two-week old three-bean salad. This is living, four-sure.
The tagline I chose for the new incarnation of this site, putting stuff away, is both a kind of mission statement and a cheeky tribute to productivity guru David Allen, who likes to talk about stuff - the ideas, todos, tasks and loose-ends of projects that occupy your mind. You've probably had someone in your office approach you with a copy of Allen's book Getting Things Done and declare it the answer to all of your organizational and self-discipline problems. I found the first half inspiring, but I couldn't find time to read the second half... and then I lost the book.
These days, though, putting stuff away is a fitting mantra for me, since during the last year or so I've been in constant motion, unable to keep track of my own loose ends. Tonight, for example, I finally got around to writing my brother Jeremy a letter. A Christmas Letter. He's in Sri Lanka, and I haven't seen him since June. Seriously, that's not right. That's bad brothering, dude. As such, putting the stuff of this site in its place is part of a larger effort to get my skinny ass in gear.