Life hacking

The NASA/WVU double job is going to be a time-sucking demon. So I've gone where no Tim has gone before: into the self-help section of the bookstore (there I learned some interesting things- the couple that shops for self help books together probably won't stay together).

After reading 100s of pages of American motivational crap, I found eight specific ideas which I could almost do:

• Delay, defer, don't, do.
• Each day, don't do projects. No one can do projects. Instead, all we
  can do each day is action items.
• When pausing a task (e.g. till tomorrow) mark it with a ;next; statement; i.e. when restarting something, reduce that restart time.
• Don't stop what you are doing to ;just tell Jill that thing;. Instead,
  maintain a little folder of folks you are talking too a lot. When you think of
  something, just jot it down and tell them the next time you see them.
• When reading email, be smarter:
  • Read it less, like once a day
  • Sort and read the email in FIFO order (first-in-first-out) so new stuff does not always interrupt old stuff
  • When reading email, if you can't handle each item in two minutes, save it to either action; (i.e. things to do) or waiting; (i.e. things that you are waiting for other people to do).

This might all be pie-in-the-sky but it all sounds sane and if makes me more sane then, hey, I'm all about it.