“What we keep in our todo is the stuff we want to forget
“Geeks say they remember details well, but they forget their spouses’ birthdays and the dry-cleaning. Because it’s not interesting.
“It’s the 10-second rule: if you can’t file something in 10 seconds, you won’t do it. Todo.txt involves cut-and-paste, the simplest interface we can imagine.”
“Power-users don’t trust complicated apps. Every time power-geeks has had a crash, s/he moves away from it. You can’t trust software unless you’ve written it – and then you’re just more forgiiving.”
“The private blog – a secret blog, using a tool:
“Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal: 8 entries every 10 min are private. Closed off from everyone.
“Announce stuff is moving into RSS – email announcements to something that syndicates over RSS
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“Geeks write scripts to take apart dull, repetitive tasks. They’ll spend 10h writing a script that will save 11h – because writing scripts is interesting and doing dull stuff isn’t.
“Scripts are embarassingly coded, often forgotten.”
“People do lots of webscraping. Scrape stuff and turn it into RSS – make your own feeds. JWZ uses this to help him run his bar.
“Lots of people do this with banking services – to keep an eye on their accounts.
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“People make utilities to make their stuff public. Not just blogs – but stuff like Eric Raymond’s “shipper” – package a code into an RPM, upload to SourceForge, announce, etc.
“Edd Dumbill: Ideas rot if you don’t do something with them. Don’t hoard them. I blog them or otherwise tell people.
“This is a way to look organized, “That guy has lots of ideas, what a genius.”
“You only have to be right once – people google for some idea and find your ramble about it and are impressed.
“Making stuff public is like having your parents come to stay – you clean everything up.”