I flew the friendly skies from San Francisco yesterday and arrived 17 hours later in Singapore. Got in like at midnight or thereafter, cleared customs in about 5 minutes (thanks Singapore!), and got to my wondrous and beautiful hotel. I’m here for 3 days to work in our Singapore offices and then on to Chennai, India for 3 days of my whirlwind 1st Quarter 2009 visit. I love traveling internationally but it sure is not something to do if you lack in patience. Witness that it took me 12 hours to get to Seoul’s Inchon airport and then a mini customs thing so I could just get back on the same airplane. Singapore Airlines is simply the best for travel over here, I think. They treat everyone with respect and dignity whether you sit up front or in the back. Leaving from SFO yesterday was really nice. The flight was only about 40% filled up so I had a whole row of seats to myself.
When I get back, I go to SCALE 7x the following weekend. I’m really looking forward to this year’s SCALE. It just gets better and better and the folks that do the show are very committed to making it evolve, attract more open source participation, and also ensuring it stays true to a community sense.
Getting Things Done in an Active Sense
I have a new post I’m working on which ties together how I’ve implemented a nice mix of tools which borrows from the Zen to Done and classic Getting things Done into a set of tools which focus on OneNote 2007 and Outlook 2007. I’m going to post the diagram when I’m done with it. I think people want to find easier ways than 12 actions, flushing the brain and ideas, and committing to a very intensive process to be more productive. My take is that anyone ™ can do what I did with the tools and it works! I managed a very time-critical project using it and was not late on any deliverables or actions.
