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In the “Path to 9/11” film I learned a lot about what was happening b4 the attack.

For instance, Massoud was telling the government about the the bombings were going ahead. But ignored; amazing. Ignored as in not acted upon.

I guess the idea of first blood here is relevant.

It seems that the upper eschelons were unready to act though their workers were telling them what was happening was because they didnt want to start a war by killing muslims.

Ofcourse, now the climate is that its part of US policy to do exactly that.

An about face, as it were. John O’Neill’s part in the whole thing as a man without any real power to do anything but with real on-the-ground-knowledge is really well brought out.

And I thought knowledge was power.

David Allen came up with the “2 minute rule”. If something takes less than 2 minutes to complete, do it now. Surprisingly effective, I’ve found. However, all the rest of it seems a little like a super-deluxe-to-do-list, though ofcourse any convert would put me right there.

From my quick read of the work section of the guardian from the 29th july 06 (yes I had saved it to read later) the “GTD” idea is to label everything and create specialised to-do lists.

So, though frowned upon for some reason, compartmentalising everything is the way to “Get Things Done”.

I’d agree – setup your home list, your work list, your relationship list etc and put the things on it that cannot be done in 2 minutes and, also, importantly, cannot be done in 2 minutes right now and say goodbye to a life of chaos and never getting things done.

Ahh, wouldnt life be great if that were true? Your mind would be would be freed up for new ideas rather than stressing over things that havent been done, a revolution!