Review week 03-2008; Goals, blog and GTD

20.01.2008

On Sundays I’m looking back on the past week. How did I perform towards my goals? How did my blog do? And how am I keeping up with my Getting Things Done system and Zen to Done habits?
Blog performance
This has been a strange week with a spammer abusing my domain for his cyber-criminal activities. [...]

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Blink: The power of the first 2 seconds

18.01.2008

First impressions, mind reading, snap decisions and thin slicing.
Those are strong concepts, some of them even mind boggling. But these are the very concepts that Blink, the book by Malcolm Gladwell is all about. This book will help you think about the way you think, especially in the first two seconds of meeting someone or [...]

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Lodewijkvdb.com domain has been abused by spammer

17.01.2008

Yesterday this domain has been abused by a spammer. Last evening my email box filled with over 3500 “Returned mail” messages for addresses that do not exist. This morning the count is at >7500 messages. I can’t even begin to imagine how many were delivered.
I don’t know if they abused the mailserver at my provider, [...]

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Steve Jobs gets it: Authenticity

16.01.2008

As the world is buzzing about the keynote speech Steve Jobs gave yesterday at Macworld Expo, I want to draw your attention to another speech he gave: the commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005.
In this speech Steve Jobs tells three stories. They are stories with a message of the lessons life presents and about [...]

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Review week 02-2008; Goals, blog and GTD

13.01.2008

On Sundays I’m looking back on the past week. How did I perform towards my goals? How did my blog do? And how am I keeping up with my Getting Things Done system and Zen to Done habits?
Blog performance
I finally finished my post on comparing the different paper planner systems. It turned out to [...]

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