We continued our discussion on the fundamentals of GTD and actually breezed through the last section (mostly because Larry was not there )

There was more reinforcement about why it is a really bad idea to keep things on one’s brain as opposed to a reliable documenting system outside the brain.

We had some interesting off-shoot discussions about off-shoring and GPS!

With regards to clearing the decks of mundane “stuff” in order to create time and energy for more creative streams of ideas, Melvin correctly pointed out that outsourcing fits into that picture quite well.  We talked about companies like Pfizer that provide “personal task outsourcing” to their employees in order to free up their time for more creative endeavors.

We also had a heated debate about leveraging gadgets (like GPSes) versus using your mental acuity in order to get things done.

This session marks the end of chapter 1 of the book.  Hopefully, we will get into more practical sections of the book as we start chapter 2.

Look out for another blog post with a link to the MindMap for Chapter 2.