Alan Gutierrez

While browsing or reading blogs, I’d like an option to remind myself to read something in a few days, or tomorrow, or at the end of the day.

Usually, I’m reading though a list of stuff, and I’m trying to make it go away. Stopping and reading a long post or an article someone has sent me keeps that form happing.

My mind isn’t in the mindset to learn new things, or to consider creative actions in response to the message. How does this article, this post, or email message translate into something that I can do to make the world a better place?

I put it in a bucket somewhere, it becomes a task, something that I must do, and I already have enough things to do. If it reappears in my stream of information, it feels like it’s a living project. It gets me thinking about it. Eventually, it will occur to me, how this bit of information relates, or else I’ll grow tired of hearing about it.

In applying getting things done, I’m finding that I’m capable of piplineing tasks, in the way that processors pipeline instructions, or better still, the way the salesmen pipline sales. Things happen in parallel. You move each as far as you can go. Because of Getting Things Done organization, you can work on the next action, inching along. Then you’ll find that there are bunch of tasks that need a nudge and they’re finished. Suddenly, you’re getting a handful things done every day, because they are at the end if their pipeline.

Waking up on time is never a problem for me at my place on Esplande Ave in the French Quarter. Windows run all along one side of my narrow slave quarter apartment. The morning sun fills my apartment with light. I’m always awake before nine. I do not own an alarm clock.