05.07.08
On A Lack of Organization
Essay Week Spring 2008 runs from May 5th to May 9th, 2008. Each day Iíll present a short essay on a topic of concern to me; I have the option of including a pre-essay post giving updates on ongoing life events if necessary. All the essays this week will be here; the LiveJournal is on hiatus while I concentrate here. Some of the elements in these essays may be controversial; I hope, however, that most will be well-regarded and at least read with an open mind. If you have anything to say about them, please feel free to leave a comment; I read them all, even if I may not respond due to time or other concerns. Today we’re taking a step back from the grave matters of the past couple days and talking about being a scatterbrained slob, and why it’s not as bad as one might suspect.
Longtime readers of this site will probably note that, around the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007, I started going on a little bit of a productivity and organization kick. For a few months there, I was almost overzealously devoted to David Allen’s book Getting Things Done, and for a while there I felt more productive. Then I kinda fell off the wagon and started chasing it, heedless of my own path. The metaphorical crash into the lamppost came when my good friend Mike said on the topic, “I read it, and then I realized– I already do all that stuff.”