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Peter Bhat Harkins
Personal Workflow
Life: procrastination, productivity, to-do, Trello, yak shave
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For about a year I’ve been using Trello, a free web app for organizing notes, to track my personal to-do lists across various projects. I’ve used it to create the Well-Sorted Version (which included repeatedly proofing 600 pages of gibberish) and update NearbyGamers from Rails 2.1 to 3.2.13 (while moving it from a VPS to Heroku and from MySQL to Postgres — a yak-shaving marathon) while staying on top of daily chores and other life maintenance. For the first time I feel reliably productive and in control of the overwhelming procrastination that’s kept me from from finishing these and many other projects for years.
This is Not A Productivity Post
Life: productivity, sleep
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I’ve had this little collection at my bedside for a dozen years. Well, not this collection.
Admitting Diminishing Returns
Biz: productivity
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In 2009, I acted like this equation is true:
(I chose The 4-Hour Work Week and Hacker News because they’re two very popular resources, but there’s dozens I could’ve chosen.)
Finish a Project
Life: productivity, projects, todo
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The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
This annoyingly true aphorism has an important implication: an unfinished project, however close it seems to completion, is worth far less than a completed project. With that in mind, I’ve created a useful tool.