According to The Guardian, our friend David Allen and his Getting Things Done philosophy have achieved cult status. In particular...
Web and IT professionals have taken Allen's core ideas and refined them into ever more effective tips called "life hacks". Adherents swap these across a broad network of blogs, wikis and websites such as 43Folders.com - all amid a considerable amount of one-upmanship over who has the biggest and best system. "As lovers of systems and frameworks, geeks take to GTD easily," says Merlin Mann, a writer from San Francisco who runs 43Folders.com. "They hate boredom so they are often jumping around, multitasking and trying to keep a dozen balls in the air." "Life hacks are really a superset of GTD - basically any kind of trick you can devise that makes it hard to screw up," says Mann.Among the examples of life hacks the article describes is this gem: "Want to keeping meetings short and on topic? Write an agenda and make sure everyone drinks a litre of water at the beginning." Read the whole thing.
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