Sam Wo

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Complexifiers and Simplifiers — which one are you?

Scott Berkun’s blog has an interesting posit regarding human nature that I see in the workplace all the time. Complexifiers are the “Complex is good, simple is easy” people who add additional complexity instinctively. Many times, it’s buried into a “save clicks” mentality - take simple user tasks and bury them in complex, huge functionality [...]

Trying to go online…

With all of my apps.
I’ve got my own web site (you’re on it right now!) with blogging tools, a photo gallery, and mail services. I have an IMAP server for kataan.org, and can hit it with their webmail tools or Outlook from work or home.
I’ve done most of my planning, email, blogging and photo [...]

Getting the RIGHT things done.

This is a great blog entry discussing Jason’s ideas for integrating Steven Covey’s 7 Habits and Getting Things Done. 7 Habits is great for Big Picture life decisions, but doesn’t address day-to-day issues as well. GTD is great at the day-to-day minutae, but loses effectiveness when determining the real Big Picture view of things.
The mashup [...]

Palm productivity notes

I finally dug up my original Palm productivity pages - I had to use the Internet WayBack Machine to get it!
Most of my early work was done with implementing the Frankin Quest (now Franklin Covey time management system, which is a nicely structured system (build governing values, set long-term goals on those values, build intermediate [...]