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Blog: Tools to Defend Your Time

Dec 30 2014

Jeff Atwood

Like a crazy hoarder, I mistake the root cause of my growing mountain of incomplete work. The hoarder thinks he has a storage problem when he really has a ‘throwing things away problem’. I say I am ‘time poor’ as if the problem is that poor me is given only 24 hours in a day. […]

Written by John Sindelar · Categorized: Making Time, Quotes · Tagged: Doing Less, Time

Nov 18 2014

Schedules and Perfectionism

Schedules suck. Each time we make a software development schedule, we do so despite two glaring problems: 1. It’s really tough to estimate or forecast any substantial development project. (That’s the long version of “schedules are useless”.) Looking at any large successful software project in hindsight your estimates and schedules appear naive if not ridiculous 2. We […]

Written by John Sindelar · Categorized: Making Time · Tagged: Time

Nov 10 2014

Time Scales, Kaizen, and Urgency

Doing some  financial planning a few months ago, I was thinking about how to budget for all the stuff we’re trying to get done next year–remodeling on the house, some travel, finishing the van/mobile-office/surf wagon–and I just couldn’t get the numbers to come out right. I had this spreadsheet showing how much we’d have available […]

Written by John Sindelar · Categorized: Making Time · Tagged: Time

Aug 13 2013

Decisions

Reminded today that deciding to do one thing is deciding not to do something else–that the root of the word “decide” is to “cut off”. As a small business, the opportunity costs for even your best decisions are huge: the best gig you’ve got is another customer you didn’t meet. The opportunity costs for bad […]

Written by John Sindelar · Categorized: Making Time · Tagged: Doing Less, Time

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