Blast from the Past: Academic, GTD Tidbits, Change, Hats, Math, and Bitstreams

I invite you to enjoy these past posts from the IdeaMatt archive (the last blast is here). -- matt

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  For my new academic readers: Matthew Cornell answers to your academic productivity questions via My Academic Productivity Post Is Up and GTD And Faculty Productivity: Notes From A Small Pilot Project

  
  



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  With 2009 coming to an end soon: Track Completed GTD Projects (plus Some "greatest Hits" For 2005)
  

  
  



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  In the gratitude experiment department: Use Gmail's "star" To Highlight Your Good News (I continue to use this three years later)
  

  
  



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  Thinking of (or forced to) make a change in career? Genius, Purpose, And Cool Job Descriptions - What Are *you* Built To Do? and Where Are You Going? Use Your Actions And Projects To Reverse Engineer Your Goals
  

  
  



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  For engineering fans: Some Tasty Morsels From The Ideamatt Self Help Formulary and Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide: Productivity Lessons From Basic Math

  
  



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  In the watch yourself category: Debbie Downer And The Six Thinking Hats (Great book: Six Thinking Hats.)

  
  



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  On paying attention: "Interesting, But Not Useful," Or Does It Pass The Scribble Test?, What To Do When An Excited Person Person Is Waving Something At You, and Pickle Jars, Text Files, And Creative Idea Capture

  
  



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  In the ironic naming category, a media contribution: The Science Behind Procrastination | The Cornell Daily Sun

  
  



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  If you don't have enough bitstreams: I'm honored in Top 100 Personal Development Blogs. ("bitstream" is from Mark Hurst's helpful little book Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload. I interviewed him here.)

  
  



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  Finally, In the spirt of helping new bloggers out, a young college student asked me to mention his writing about AIDS at healthlifeandstuff.com