Comment by hhmc
6 months ago
There’s a now quite dated comment from Merlin Mann: "Joining a Facebook group about productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.”
It’s fuzzy - but my recollection was Mann was a fairly renown productivity influencer (although I guess we wouldn’t have called it that then), who had an apostasy about it all.
I think he had a blog called LifeHacker and/or 36 folders (I don't know if they were his or just a writer, but I remember following him back in the day).
It's wild to think that was almost 20 years ago when Getting Things Done was going through tech circles as the organization method dujour. (I also equate the same time period with learning Ruby on Rails.)
Merlin ran 43folders.com[1]. That domain name was a reference to GTD's tickler files[2].
Merlin did not have anything to do with Lifehacker.com. Gina Trapani[4] founded Lifehacker[3]. But, Lifehacker often covered and was inspired by Merlin's work.
1. http://www.43folders.com/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifehacker#History
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Trapani
Cool, thanks for clarifying. It was just all jumpled in my AMAZING RSS reader. I miss those days.