I'm doing 39 things
You'll never really finish this
14 months ago
I have not adhered to the GTD practice yet but try to keep only five or so really important e-mails in my inbox and archive the rest.
David Hall's Life List
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1. Become a better programmer
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2. Read more books
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3. write a book
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4. See all the films that have won the Best Picture Oscar
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5. Write more
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6. Be more sociable
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7. Write for a living
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8. write more poetry
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9. Answer e-mail in time
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10. create silly things
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11. Eat less junk food
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12. Maintain my personal notebook daily
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13. re-learn calculus
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14. Learn to draw/paint.
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15. write essays, articles and blog entries to get my ideas out in the world
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16. Have my wisdom teeth taken out
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17. digitalize all the family photos
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18. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
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19. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
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20. write about the books that I'm reading
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21. Connect my blog more closely to my website
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22. work on my German
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23. learn to sing
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24. learn to take better photos
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25. start to play the piano again
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26. commit random acts of kindness
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27. Get a PhD
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28. work for google
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29. create a list of 100 must-read books and read them.
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30. learn calligraphy
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31. Learn to speak Japanese
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32. watch all six Star Wars movies (and Clone Wars) in a week.
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33. find a job that makes me happy
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34. Keep a journal
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35. Graduate with my Master's Degree
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36. Study German every week
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37. end it
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38. Stop communicating with people who don't think I'm important enough to them
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39. Write the great novel of our generation.
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Recent entries
One word: Leopard
17 months ago
I bought Leopard two weeks ago. It solves this problem by saving all downloads in special folder on the dock. Or: Safari does I still have to solve the problem with Firefox placing everything on the desktop.
Me and Japan
22 months ago
I grew up in a family where Japanese electronics was the norm. Every time we visited someone who didn’t have a Sony TV I would feel irritated over the bad (non-Trinitron) picture. I learnt the ownership structure of the Japanese conglomerates before I even knew the names of all the countys of my homeland.
Whenever my dad talked about Japan regardless of topic (economics, population, Kurosawa, WWII) I would listen carefully (not that I didn’t always do that).
In fourth grade I wrote a school paper on Japan together with my classmate Jenny. It was way more ambitious than any of the other pupils created. They copied whatever text they had found about the country they had chose to write about onto paper and drew something onto it.
I, on the other hand, looked in a number of books and encyclopedias and wrote a coherent text where my classmates couldn’t produce more than short sentences full of spelling errors. The paper Jenny and (mostly) I wrote wasn’t handed in as a handwritten paper with pencil smears. Instead I spent some time on my father’s workplace to enter the text into a word processor, give it a multi-column layout and print it on a Canon (of course) laser printer.
Eight years later when I had to choose a subject for my special project in high school it was no surprise that I chose Japan, the Japanese post-war economic miracle to be more specific.
Despite my fascination of Japan, its culture, business, technology and history I have never been there. To fully appreciate it I think I have to learn the language as well as the customs. (Of course it could be fun to compete with my sister who studies Mandarin at university level.)
