david allen gets things done
Written on September 22, 2008
david allen is the author of a popular series of books and accompanying lectures promoting a system called “getting things done“. it’s quite possible i could use some of this training myself. i was very pleased to see, though, that david allen doesn’t abhor the use of post-it notes. really, i’ve got way too many of those things around here. for an otherwise technologically savvy guy, i have a lot of pens and a lot of paper still cluttering up my desk. then again, that’s got to be one of david’s steps: get rid of clutter. a cluttered office = a cluttered mind, or so they say.
i forgot to ask him to explain to me why it is that every time i clean things up it becomes harder to get things done, not easier. seriously whenever i clean up my office i spend twenty minutes the next day just trying to figure out where i put all the post-it notes.
(this was shot for mindy katzman at businessweek magazine. thanks, mindy)