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It‘s about getting a selfie with the blue PostgreSQL elephant wandering around campus. :-)

‘When you have a choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.’

The original is dreckstool.de

But named after the lighthouse, as seen in its logo.

I‘ve been using it as a general bookmark manager (think Pinboard or Raindrop) for a while now. It‘s a bit quirky, but very powerful with all the management and annotation possibilities.

You might say it was just another excuse to curate my thousands of bookmarks and recreate a new tagging structure yet again, but… well, you wouldn‘t be wrong. :-)


Me too. I actually bought a selection of freshly roasted beans from a local roaster, and when I came back I said that I could not distinguish the Peruvian one from the somewhere else one. The roaster was shocked.

I‘d love to have better taste, but I‘m saving so much money, I do not really care.



It reads a bit like my current position after two decades of on-and-off-GTD and ~three years of PARA: the project/area/resource distinction is practical, but not earth-shattering.

But what‘s really working is GTD, which the article doesn‘t call out, but implicitly lumps together with PARA: actionable next tasks and collecting everything in some kind of inbox.

I haven‘t found much use for PARA itself in my personal life, but for organizing my work OneDrive it shines.


For organization, I found that Johnny Decimal is my perfect sweet spot.

Seconded on GTD, or at least a version of it. I suck at consulting an app about what I could be doing in a given context. I’ve mostly discarded that, other than things like shopping lists and 1:1 meetings. But the idea of capturing every action I need to take, then routinely putting those in home/work/self/etc. buckets was life changing. I’m a devotee to that habit.


Johnny here. Glad you find it useful.

Have you seen my recent ‘task and project management’ course? I’m really happy with how the task part worked out, and feedback has been universally positive.

The project side has work to do. I think I’ve solved the problem and will be updating the course in the next month.


I do, and I have! That's pretty slick. I don't have the bandwidth to dig into it right now but I've got it on my to-do list to check that out later.

I was just thinking the other day that I've enjoyed seeing you guys turn this into a living. I hope this keeps working out well!



It‘s "remove". A common word, but many words are common and not on the list. Lesswrong also lists "prüf" (check), another common word.


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