Thanks to my personalized Google Home Page, I came across a blog post at 43Folders titled “Getting Started With ‘Getting Things Done‘”. I have not heard of this book – not surprising given that I haven’t had time lately to read, reflect, and generally be a normal human being! – but a quick scan of the blog post has convinced me that it merits further reading. The clincher however was this:
I think Getting Things Done appeals to geeks for a lot of reasons. Overgeneralizing for effect:
- geeks are often disorganized or have a twisted skein of attention-deficit issues
- geeks love assessing, classifying, and defining the objects in their world
- geeks crave actionable items and roll their eyes at “mission statements” and lofty management patois
- geeks like things that work with technology-agnostic and lofi tools
- geeks like frameworks but tend to ignore rules
- geeks are unusually open to change (if it can be demonstrated to work better than what they’re currently using)
- geeks like fixing things on their own terms
- geeks have too many projects and lots and lots of stuff
Sure I’ve been told I’m a geek, and yes I have a notion what that means, but this list above brought it home and right between the eyes. It was like ‘Oh my goddess, I’m such a ‘geek’ 
!!!” I’ff off to Amazon now, this geek needs to spend some moolah, and hopefully, things will get done .
