Venkatesh Rao Archives - Getting Things Done® David Allen's GTD® Methodology Mon, 24 May 2021 00:22:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Meaning, Neatness and Organization https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/03/meaning-neatness-and-organization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meaning-neatness-and-organization https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/03/meaning-neatness-and-organization/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:15:32 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=1105 I had one of those “why didn’t I make the connection before? It’s so obvious!” moments recently, while thinking through a chapter of my book-in-progress. The three things I connected were David Allen’s subtle definition of organization: “where things are suits what they mean to you,” James C. Scott’s masterpiece on how governments develop an …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/03/meaning-neatness-and-organization/feed/ 2 A Contest for your Desk https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/01/a-contest-for-your-desk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-contest-for-your-desk https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/01/a-contest-for-your-desk/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:31:08 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=941 A Community Contribution by Venkatesh Rao If you are into GTD, your desk/main workspace is probably a constant source of intellectual stimulation for you. Do you think your workspace manifests and models the future of work? If so, take a quick picture and tweet it to @cloudworker on twitter (run by the folks at cloudworker.org). …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/01/a-contest-for-your-desk/feed/ 2 A True Life Saga of GTD in Action Meets a Review of MIAW https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/01/a-true-life-saga-of-gtd-in-action-meets-a-review-of-miaw/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-true-life-saga-of-gtd-in-action-meets-a-review-of-miaw https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/01/a-true-life-saga-of-gtd-in-action-meets-a-review-of-miaw/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:41:40 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=938 Venkatesh Rao is a quintessential GTD’er.  Seven years in the trenches and he’s probably forgotten more about GTD than most people every learn.  He’s also one of those individuals gifted with the intellect and the energy to manage a level of productivity that few people even aspire to, let alone achieve. In a mammoth post …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/01/a-true-life-saga-of-gtd-in-action-meets-a-review-of-miaw/feed/ 2 Recalibrating Your GTD Systems https://gettingthingsdone.com/2008/12/recalibrating-your-gtd-systems/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=recalibrating-your-gtd-systems https://gettingthingsdone.com/2008/12/recalibrating-your-gtd-systems/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:09:30 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=818 Editor’s Note: It is my pleasure to introduce a new GTDtimes Contributor, Venkatesh Rao. Venkat works at the Xerox Innovation Group, where he leads technology projects that aim to invent the future of documents and information work. Prior to Xerox, he spent 2.5 years as a postdoc at Cornell, in Raff D’Andrea’s robotics research group. …

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