GTD - a crash course
Posted by Jesper | Filed under Life, Productivity
I’ve been on the GTD (Getting Things Done) wagon for a couple of years, and as part of it, a lot of people ask the obvious question: What is it, and what’s the point ?
Let’s start at the beginning: Getting Things Done is a way of improving productivity. It’s a way of organizing your life, it’s a way of optimizing your day-to-day life and it’s a way to combat stress. This might sound like just yet another scheme to steal money, but it’s not really. The only thing you have to invest in, is the book, and from there on, the implementation of GTD in you life depends on what you make of it.
GTD has had quite a lot of success during the last couple of years, and is in general very popular among especially developers, as it has a very structured approach to projectmanagement, and life in general. Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: gtd, Productivity
Switching bash with zsh
Posted by Jesper | Filed under Code, Development, Featured, Productivity
I’ve been running OS X since the beginning back in 2001. During that time, the system have gone through a lot of changes, and while some has improved a lot of visual effects, and have a great impact on the way we perceive our tasks at hand, some are more invisible, but also have a large effect on the way we work.
I usually spend 20-30% of my day in Terminal, doing administrative tasks, ssh’ing to the servers I use for development and for my work, watching logs, debugging etc. This might not be typical behaviour for an OS X user (Which is good, as I think Terminal should be an addition for those who wants the power of it, and not a necessity for “regular” users) , but I find working directly with Terminal to improve my workflow when it comes to the previously mentioned tasks.
As some Mac-users will know, OS X currently comes with bash as the standard shell. Even though bash is often perceived as one of the best shells available in the Unix-community, quite a lot of other shells exist, all with different features, and approaches to shell-work. A couple of years ago I decided to try out Z Shell, also known as zsh, and I’ve never regretted this. Read the rest of this entry…
