“The alternative to the feckless to-do list is what I call ‘living in your calendar.’ That means taking your tasks off the to-do list, estimating how much time each of them will consume, and transferring them to your calendar.” – Daniel Markovitz

I’ve been ‘living in my calendar’ for 18 months now – since I first drew up the Daily Reality Planner. I’ve found it to be an excellent tool to set reasonable expectations (if only for myself).

Even though not everything I schedule needs to be done at that specific time – making that declaration helps me a) commit to it and b) mentally prepare for doing it.

Good things.

Between a great write up on how to build your own mapping service and the St. Louis Fed releasing a free MS Excel Add-in for their 30,000 data sets I’m itching to hack around on some maps.

“It’s hard for people sometimes to understand that things that look successful or generate attention don’t necessarily also generate money.” Misha Glouberman, via Luke Francl

It took half my adult life to understand this phenomenon. Once I did, the world seemed both more approachable and hackable.

and another from Mark Cuban…

“Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.”

From me circa 2006…

“VISION LIKE STORY WITH MOUSE AND CHEESE. SOMEONE MOVE CHEESE, MOUSE FORGET CHEESE, INVENT MACHINE GUN AND EAT CAT.” – FAKEGRIMLOCK

Happy New Year.