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Share If there’s nothing certain, as Ol’ Ben put it, but death and taxes, Hamlet wrestled with only part of the question in his most famous soliloquy: To be, or not to be…. For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come! (This passage must set the record for titles derived from a single chunk of text. [...] Share One of the repeated knocks against the iPad has been the lack of multitasking. You can run only one app at a time. There are lots of good reasons to knock the iPad, starting with the no-women-in-the-Apple-hierarchy name. Is single-tasking one of them? Multitasking is a computer’s ability to run multiple apps at the same time. In [...] Share I’m speaking in New York in three weeks on the topic Getting Paper Out of the (Attorney’s) Office, as part of a two-person panel at the LegalTech Conference and trade show. Below are the main points I’m currently looking at for my part of the discussion. I’d love to hear from folks who have additional or [...] Share Healthcare IT pro Elyse Nielsen has one of the best-named blogs around: AntiClue. She also has a recent post on workflow. In it, she lists what she sees as the top six workflow issues: Automating a bad process will just make it fail faster and magnify the problem. This is very similar to Steven’s First Law [...] Share A fascinating picture-blog called There, I Fixed It: Epic Kludges had a photo last week of a whiteboard competing for space with a light switch, reproduced in reduced size at right. Kludge or inspired work-around? (A kludge, pronounced KLOOZHE, is a term for an ungainly quick-and-dirty solution to a knotty problem. It started in the tech [...] Share I try to keep my Inbox clear, at a minimum emptying it every night. Ideally, whenever I check mail, I go through each item in my Inbox and do one of five things with it after reading it: Delete it. Share Yesterday I wrote about never filing another EMail (or almost never). Use a single Saved Mail folder — I call mine History — and search it. Filing is a losing effort. I know some people are inveterate filers; I think at one point a group I was working with determined that about 10% of people were [...] Share I had a couple of folks ask me in the past week about systems for filing EMail. It’s easy. Don’t. (I’ll cover later the legal obligation to retain certain mail, but that doesn’t change my suggestion.) EMail is a blessing and a curse. It’s a curse when you allow it to suck time out of your day. It’s [...] |
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