Guy Kawasaki, former apple evangelist and current entrepreneur has suggested that the Republicans need to reframe the debate on the bailout. While I don’t completely agree with the solution, since I oppose the bailout entirely, he has an interesting point. Politics is marketing.
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I’ve decided it is time to re-engage with politics in my life. I do not like the way that things are going. I’ve always been center-right, but since Reagan I’ve pretty much voted and not much else. So what have I gotten for my inaction?
Eight years of Bill Clinton, almost 4 years of Al Gore (shudder), and 8 years of a weak George Bush. A congress lead by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, who do not seem to know how to lead, but only to blame.
Now, I’m not happy with my own party at all. But what alternative do I have? A party that would rather see a weakened America, with good paying jobs shipped overseas so as not to offend the radical environmentalist wing of their party? A media willing to lie to get their candidate elected? A nearly trillion dollar bailout because the Democrats created a system that required and encouraged and enabled banks to make bad loans to people who shouldn’t have gotten them?
I can’t continue being part of the problem, I’ve got to start being part of the solution, or at least to stop enabling the corruption that is destroying our country.
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I am always looking for a better personal productivity methodology. From Day-Timers to The 7 habits of Highly Effective People to todo lists and PDA’s (still have my Apple Newton!), so it is no surprise that I am constantly on the lookout for new techniques.
Right now, I am looking at Getting Things Done by David Allen. It is an interesting system, in that he really doesn’t give you a system as much as a methodology. He expects you to develop a record-keeping system that works for you. I’m using an online planner system to do this called “Remember the Milk.” I’m very impressed with it so far. RTM is extremely flexible – almost too flexible. I’ve reconfigured it about 4 times to get it to work how I want it to work.
What I like most is the combination of tags and smart lists. Smart lists are basically stored searches, but the UI treats them just as if they were lists. So effectively, I can mix and match tags to create a very flexible system for organizing my work. I haven’t decided if it is too flexible, but I have already organized and diced my work into about 30 different piles. More on that when I get some time with it to see how it works.
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