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The Future of Work

Today I spent some time exploring The Future of Work. Some questions I’m thinking about are: What is the future of the performance appraisal? What is ROWE (Results Only Work Environment) and what does it mean for HR? What are companies doing to create great cultures?

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Ceaseless reading and study

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Summary of The Irresistible Offer

I just re-read The Irresistible Offer by Mark Joyner, this time taking notes. It’s one of the most practical books on marketing I’ve come across. Highly recommended. The basic (simple) idea: quid pro quo – Make an Offer – You give me X, I’ll give you Y The Big Four Questions people have when they’re […]

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Personal Brain 5 Review

PersonalBrain 5 is out. A new year is out and I haven’t posted anything yet. Now seems like a great time for a new, long, rambling review of PersonalBrain followed up by a bit of philosophizing. First up: What’s new? The coolest changes in PersonalBrain (okay maybe not the coolest) are the changes I submitted […]

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Free webdav sync for Omnifocus

It took me forever to find a decent and free (I know… ) webdav hosting service to sync Omnifocus between my mac at home, at work and my iPhone. I really didn’t want to pay for .mac since I’ve had it before and used almost none of it. Finally I found one that seems to […]

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Ubiquity: The Next Big Thing

This is the most impressive browser extension I have seen yet: Ubiquity. It’s a mixture of Quicksilver and Yubnub combined with functionality similar to Greasemonkey integrated tightly with Firefox as an extension for doing stuff and creating mashups. I think this could quickly become the main reason to use Firefox over any other browser. Maybe […]

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All the Functionality of MobileMe for Free

How to get (almost) all the functionality of MobileMe (previously known as .mac) without paying for MobileMe Email – Use Gmail with IMAP turned on and you can sync mail between your iPhone and Macs. If you’ve got your own domain you can use Google Apps to use a personalized email address. I use Gmail […]

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PersonalBrain vs. Mindmapping Part II

After writing yesterday about the differences between PersonalBrain and Mindmappers, I started thinking more about what the core difference between them are. Is it a temporal difference? Mindmaps tend to expire whereas information in PersonalBrain tends to be valid over a longer period of time. Is it a difference in the amount of data you […]

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PersonalBrain vs. Mindmapping

When I started using PersonalBrain sometimes I was unclear about when to use PersonalBrain or when to use a more traditional mindmapping tool like Freemind or MindJet. Now I think I can break it down pretty simply to this: PersonalBrain is for research, learning and long-term planning. Mindmapping is for brainstorming. The two tools overlap […]

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Personal Brain 4 Review

I recently discovered Personal Brain and I’m taken with it. It took me a couple hours of experimentation and more importantly, playing with Jerry Michalski’s brain to get used to it and to realize how powerful it is. For those of you who ‘get’ and use GTD, I’ll say that this gave me the same […]