Nobody is arguing that it is the only kind of work. Remember that you started this thread :)
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But you're the deadlines guy!
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Yes. Shared deadlines are easy. The problem is when nobody but you cares about the project.
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I often think about the "deadline" which is making a flight or seeing a movie: it starts whether you're in the seat or not.…
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…newspapers and magazines are a similar phenomenon: the publication goes to press whether your story is ready or not.
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Yes ... what do you do with projects that don't have such a date? Just do 'em whenever?
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I do mostly infrastructure stuff so pretty much yeah. Sooner is better but deliverables are wheneverish, more bounded by money than time.
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Money can be a powerful deadline-creator. I find projects that are truly SMART (including the T) get done. Those that are not do not.
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ah k I'm not really concerned about "done", only "doneish", or perhaps "nuggets of 'done' floating in a soup of never-gonna-be-done".
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I've got plenty of those too.
@fortelabs emphasizes the distinction b/w Projects and Areas. These are things that squarely fall into P.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Area of focus in gtd sense seems more passive though
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@fortelabs' refinement of GTD areas of focus (& forcing the distinction between them & projects) is a big improvement on the original.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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the thing I'm thinking about a lot these days is path dependency, and how there are N!-1 wrong ways to execute a sequence of operations.
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