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| bio | website | wuerl.calepin.co |
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| location | Seattle, WA | |
| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | 5 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 48 |
aerospace engineer, Star Wars nerd, PowerPoint hater, and family barista, @wuerl
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Dec 12 |
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Which To-Do List managers are useful for students? welcome. Obviously you've thought about what you're looking for in a to do list. But this is really a recommendation question, generally discouraged on SE sites (gaming, B&CG for the reasons explained. Our meta has a discussion about recommendations, which although infant offers good guidance. Please try re-phrasing your question along the lines of a guide: how to pick, not what to pick. |
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Dec 8 |
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How do I get more productive from using keyboard shortcuts? fixed bullet typo and added one more windows shortcut |
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Dec 8 |
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Is there a master “catch-all” system for keeping track of things? You can send articles from Google Reader to instapaper. With the item highlighted just click the send to instapaper bookmarklet--it even works in the mobile version of the site. |
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Dec 7 |
asked | Has anyone tried using Trello to track GTD projects? |
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Dec 6 |
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What is a learning attitude, and how can I improve mine? Corrected text. Improved grammar and wording. |
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Dec 6 |
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What is a learning attitude, and how can I improve mine? welcome to the site. I see the kernels of a good answer above and agree that all the things you'd do to prepare to teach someone else about a topic would probably help you learn about it yourself. But we try to have longer-form answers on this site. Can you elaborate on yours to prevent it from being deleted or down-voted? |
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Dec 5 |
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How to overcome “hyper” sensitivity? You're most welcome. I was trying hard to make sure that you didn't feel that folks suggesting the question isn't a good fit for this site didn't mean that you're not dealing with a real problem and emotions. |
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Dec 2 |
awarded | Analytical |
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Dec 2 |
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How to overcome “hyper” sensitivity? @AnishaKaul I understand your point about concentration as an aspect of personal productivity, but based on your question the reason you're having trouble concentrating is not related to the topic of the site. If you were having trouble deciding what tasks to do, or how to keep track of your commitments it would be more on-topic. Here, the issue seems to be you've been greatly affected by reading about the holocaust and war, but this site isn't built to attract experts who can help with that and I don't think there's really a productivity-related question here. |
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Dec 1 |
answered | How do you keep tasks tagged as “unimportant” from turning into mini-disasters a month later? |
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Nov 23 |
accepted | How do I introduce someone to Personal Productivity Improvements? |
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Nov 20 |
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Is there anything similar to TRIZ known outside of Russia for improving personal productivity? added tags |
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Nov 16 |
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What can I do to quickly become a better orator/public speaker? Despite your caveat, and I agree recording yourself is not a replacement for actual public speaking, it does provide a totally different type of feedback. Being able to watch yourself is a critical aspect of improving your public speaking skills as it provides the best means of objectively observing your posture, gestures, pace, tone, voice, etc. All of these things seem different given the outside perspective and a little time since the delivery. Especially when you're learning new habits you should be recording yourself and watching it back. |
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Nov 16 |
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What can I do to quickly become a better orator/public speaker? changed tags, re-wrote title and body of question for clarity, flow and grammar |
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Nov 16 |
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Why does the Pomodoro technique recommend writing down every interruption? re-wrote title and body of question to improve grammar and clarity |
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Nov 15 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Why does the Pomodoro technique recommend writing down every interruption? |
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Nov 15 |
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How do I avoid missing important/urgent e-mails? If you have the freedom to set up a separate account I like that idea. It reminds me of the prior art of the special zip code each President gets so correspondence from people in the know can get fast-tracked to his desk (letters from family and what not). I suppose if you can't set up a separate account the same thing could be accomplished in practice by giving people a special code or string to put in the subject, which you could then set up rules and filters to process into a special inbox. |
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Nov 15 |
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Organization system for cables, adapters, etc - electronics clutter I don't know, that seems like a pretty solid plan. I even like the idea of labeling the generic cables and perhaps storing them together as miscellaneous. The only thing I would add is I'd set a tickler for a few months after the initial organization to re-visit your organized items and toss any that were on the bubble when you kept them, but that the intervening months have made clear you can toss or donate. |
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Nov 11 |
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How do I avoid missing important/urgent e-mails? I don't see how this answers the question. The user is having a problem noticing urgent emails because he is receiving so many. I'm not sure how getting each one as a text message or having a notification posted to their twitter feed would help. |
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Nov 11 |
answered | How do I avoid missing important/urgent e-mails? |
