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April 3rd, 2007

Village tavern w Rob und Chad

Village tavern w Rob und Chad

April 3rd, 2007

Just received Lauren’s UPS pac…

Just received Lauren’s UPS package. The delivery guy said “get out of town!” (b/c this our second successful package receipt in 3 years)

April 3rd, 2007

Minimum number of tasks for a viable GTD system

Over time I’ve watched my GTD system’s average number of active (actionable) tasks decrease from around 250, to around 190, to 100, to 50. Right now it’s edging up to 100 again.

I wonder what my goal should be. Whenever you get rid of tasks, more eventually take their places. I wonder what a minimum number of active tasks should be reasonable? Is it virtually impossible to get below 25 without either lying to yourself (forgetting some tasks) or a life “pausing” event (eg a vacation)?

Should I be happy keeping my steady state at 50 or do I aim for an impossible ideal (completing all tasks)?

April 3rd, 2007
April 3rd, 2007

WordPress-crazy

I just installed WP-Cache, to make sure my WordPress install can handle relatively heavy traffic.

I also added the Tiga WordPress theme, which Lauren says “looks like me.” I’m still pondering exactly what that means…

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