The stroke of insight of Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain scientist. So you will soon understand the extraordinary insight she got when one morning, she woke up with a terrible pain on the left temporal lobe. As a person, she was both living an intense connective experience and a struggle for survival against a stroke. As a scientist, she had a unique insider experience of what a stroke does, and what it means. As her brain functions (motion, speech, memory, self-awareness, etc.) were shutting down one by one, she started to experience an intense connectedness, the loss of the constant brain chatter, the loss of the sense of self and separatedness.
“How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I’ve gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career.”
Jill Bolte Taylor
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Getting Things Done, when you are the one who does everything
Getting things done is a wonderful system that has taken the planet by a storm. Geeks and productivity fans from all countries unite around the framework and geeks from around the world have developed new applications or customized the use of existing tools to support the flow.
In this series, we will look at the requirements of a Joe professional (as in me, Frederic Ducros).
People talk:
- http://pileofindexcards.org/blog/ Check This !!!
- http://smerino.bol.ucla.edu/gtd/gtd-resources.html
- http://the-getting-things-done.blogspot.com/
- http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done
- http://ubertechnica.typepad.com/ubertechnica/health-and-fitness/index.html
- http://www.todoorelse.com/other/index.html
- http://gtd.jeffsandquist.com/GTDWeblogs.ashx
- http://gtd.jeffsandquist.com/MainPage.ashx
The contenders
- Getting things done with PHP
- TaskToy
- OmniFocus
- AJour
- What’sNext
- Goal Enforcer
- ToDo Matrix
- http://www.orionbelt.com/productMac.php
- http://ghostparksoftware.com/
- http://www.effexis.com/achieve/planner.htm
- Jello Dashboard
- Next Action
- Task Freak!
- iPrioritize
- Essential PIM
- Ready-Set-Do!
- iKog (It keeps on growing)
- d3
- GTD Inbox
- OrchestrateHQ
- Natara Bonsai
- PyGTD
- Things
- Thinking Rock!
- Tudumo
- Tracks
- TaskStep
- NoteStudio (out at this point)
- http://avm.free.fr/tidlipo.html
- http://www.serversidewiki.com/
More:
- http://del.icio.us/search/?all=GTD
- http://www.listible.com/list/gtd-software
- http://gtd.marvelz.com/blog/gtd-index
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/05/08/do-more-online-to-do-lists-compared/
- http://www.dogmelon.com.au/ns/GTD%20Refresher.shtml
What it is good at:
Why I did not go with it:
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Knowledge Management 101
What is Knowledge Management?
Knowledge Management is the process of gathering, organizing, refining, and disseminating knowledge.
What will it do for my company?
Have you ever had a knowledgeable employee leaving with some precious knowledge that only he or she had?
Have you ever had some new employees feeling a deep sense of loss in the face of the mountain of terms, projects, tools, and other conventions your team was using?
Emergency numbers
For our last vacation, Ting and I went to Belize. The main reason was diving, with warm weather as a close second. Now, I will have to speak about this in a later post, given the fact that we are living in California, and we are supposed to live in a warm place. But that will be for another rant. Today let’s speak about a wonderful discovery.
The day we chose to leave the so-called “protection” of Ambergris Caye and go to Belize City was a rainy day. So, when we left the boat, we were starving, and the heavy rain forced us to choose a restaurant close by. Oh my, was it a good choice!
Beyond the warm, tasty and oh so cheap meatballs, soups, sandwiches and cakes, we also made a little discovery: a list of emergency numbers that you may have seen this before, but we had not. Since we have recently joined Menlo Park Presbyterian Church and are “searching”, this was a great discovery.
For ease of use, I have integrated this list with links to the Bible Gateway, so that you don’t have to look for the verses. Courtesy of your servant 
… Emergency numbers …
When in sorrow John 14 When men fail you Psalm 27 If you want to be fruitful John 15 When you have sinned Psalm 51 When you are in danger Psalm 91 When you worry Matthew 6:19-34 When God seems far away Psalm 139 When your faith needs stirring Hebrews 11 When you are lonely and fearful Psalm 23 When you grow bitter and critical 1 Cor. 13 For Paul’s secret to happiness Col. 3:12-17 When you feel down and out Romans 8:31-39 When you leave home for labor or travel Psalm 121 When your prayers grow narrow or selfish Psalm 67 For a great invention/opportunity Isaiah 55 When you want courage for a task Joshua 1 How to get along with fellowmen Romans 12 When you think of investments/returns Mark 10 If you are depressed Psalm 37 If your pocketbook is empty Psalm 37 If you are losing confidence in people 1 Cor. 13 If people seem unkind John 15 If discouraged about your work Psalm 126 If you find the world growing small, and yourself great Psalm 19
Emergency numbers maybe dialed direct. No operator assistance is necessary. All lines are open to Heaven 24 Hours a Day!!! Feed Your Faith and Doubt will starve to death!! “When all else fails, read the bible!”