

Once again, it's not something I trust myself to get right every time on my own. Because of the sheer quantity of data we generate every 30 days - and also the fact that I'm slightly crazy and don't trust any single cloud provider with my memories - that backup process involves syncing tens of gigabytes of data and a bunch of shell commands.

#Download taskpaper update#
#Download taskpaper software#
(Enterprise software sales is ridiculous.) And I'll be damned, but the research showed that medical facilities using our software reported a statistical decrease in operating room screwups. The software I helped build aimed to solve this problem by being a glorified, cloud-synced checklist that hospitals could buy for tens of thousands of dollars per license. It's the 21st century you'd think the medical industry would have fixed that problem by now, right? But even after verbally confirming with the patient before surgery, and then even after marking the incision site with a Sharpie, doctors still occasionally operate on the wrong part of the body. Years ago, I worked on a piece of medical software that was designed to ensure surgeons operated on the correct side and limb of the patient's body. And you have to trust your system (paper, digital, whatever) enough so that all those open loops in your head fall away and you can just let go and go about your life confidently. You have to train yourself to be diligent enough that putting everything into your system becomes habit. And that's exactly what I mean when I say "letting go" above. And now, looking back, I can see that it was probably 2010 - six years in! - before I became truly comfortable with letting go before that whole mind like water state of flow finally became second nature.įor me, and I guess most people doing the GTD thing, getting to that point meant fully trusting your system. And here we are in 2020, which means I've been practicing this methodology (with varying levels of success) for over fifteen years. I jumped on the Gettings Things Done bandwagon around 2004 I think - the first of my two senior years in college.

I'm a firm believer in the whole mind like water spiel that David Allen preaches through GTD.
