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New Time management system from Mark Forster

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wraith808:
I don't think it's copyright... I think it's wanting to artificially form a community.  It's not like you're actually paying for it, and I'd never sign up under false pretenses then e-mail someone else's work out.  That seems on the other spectrum of wrong.  He writes it and gives it away for free with a sign-up- if that's how he wants to distribute it, even though I won't go through the effort without some information, it is his prerogative, and I'd not undermine that.

40hz:
If it didn't take work ideologically I'd sign up then private-email all comers of the result.
-TaoPhoenix (March 14, 2012, 07:05 PM)
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It always disappoints me to see people posting things like this around here. :(

... I'd never sign up under false pretenses then e-mail someone else's work out.  That seems on the other spectrum of wrong.
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... it is his prerogative, and I'd not undermine that.
-wraith808 (March 14, 2012, 08:13 PM)
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On the other hand, I'm always gratified when someone posts something like this. :)

40hz:
Ok. Finished reading the first installment. It's ok as far as it goes. I'm not sure what exactly the author feels is so different about this scheme. I'm sure I've read similar approaches before - but I'm not up on the micro-subtleties separating one to-do system from another so a specialist may see something I'm not seeing. There's a little hint of NLP-style head games in it, but that's about it.

Hopefully the uniqueness will become  more apparent with subsequent newsletter installments when he fleshes it out a bit more.

tomos:
Ok. Finished reading the first installment. It's ok as far as it goes. I'm not sure what exactly the author feels is so different about this scheme.-40hz (March 15, 2012, 08:12 AM)
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It is very simple, isn't it. But I believe the simplicity has evolved from thrashing out two previous versions with a very active user community. Re experts and opinions - I think the only way of properly judging it is to try it out.

I think it's fair enough (?) to quote this bit from the email:

"Why It Works"Why It Works
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At the beginning of this newsletter I said there were three factors which every time management system needs to address: urgency, importance and psychological readiness. Let's see how FV deals with each of these.

Urgency. Because of the nature of the preselection process, urgent tasks tend to get selected - generally speaking the human brain wants to do things that it knows are urgent. If things come up that are particularly urgent they can be added to the preselected list at any time.

Importance. Generally speaking the human brain is a bit less keen on doing important stuff than it is on doing urgent stuff. This is particularly the case when the important stuff is difficult. However the FV preselection process ensures that tasks towards the beginning of the list are given as much attention as tasks towards the end of the list.

Psychological Readiness. This is where FV really enters new dimensions. By using a pre-selection process, the brain is softened up towards the selected tasks. But this isn't all. The selection process is based on what you want to do. This colours the whole preselected list so that even the first task, which you may not have wanted to do at all, gets affected. In addition, doing the list in reverse order, with the least wanted task last, uses structured procrastination to get the tasks done.

TaoPhoenix:
Okay, y'all have surprised me. To me this is the Scarlet C (for Copyright) staring me in the face, because, wait for it ... "distributing it is 'wrong' ".

Watch what happens when you / if he were to (pick a grammar case) change it to a Creative Commons license - that means the owner WANTS it to get out!

The future of content is Freemiums and riding viral waves. Secret email lists are what feel wrong to me. (Email? Really?!)

I know, it's an angle at collecting value etc, it just feels to me like it's headed into an evolutionary dead end type path.

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