From time to time I’ll post full posts that I write for Future Shop (that’s allowed now), but today, it’s just excerpts. Enjoy!
Last week Nicholas Negroponte was quoted as saying that the physical book would be dead in 5 years—Nicholas Negroponte: The Physical Book Is Dead In 5 Years—which I thought is pushing it a little. Sure I love ebooks, and would rather have an ebook version over a paper version now, but gone in 5 years? Now I don’t know if it was just kismet of timing, around the same time, Kobo announced that it was dropping the price of its eReader device from $150 to $128 dollars. Hmm, okay, that’s just competition with other eReader devices. Well today I read on Ars Technica something that to me finally tips the scale to the full-on decline of paper—Mass romance novel publisher going all in on e-books.
link: If romance books go all in on ebooks, yep paper is done for
Want, as I am, to always find new and cool things for my machine and my workday, a post title like—Pomodoro Desktop puts a tomato in your menubar—is bound to catch my attention. Tomato? Really? Okay, I’ll bite, what’s this all about. Turns out it’s not about fruit at all (remember tomatoes are technically fruits), but an interesting approach to getting things done during the day. The essence is working for 25 minutes on a particular, specific task then taking a 5 minutes break. Yes, there are some details to making it all work, but that’s the guts of it. The guts of The Pomodoro Technique—The Pomodoro Technique™.
link: You say tomato, I say pomodoro: trying a new gtd approach
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