This is how I work. This is my personal productivity philosophy. Help me help you!

This was essentially the bottom line of the recent post that Brent Ozar wrote to help him be more effective within his organization. It was quite a liberating and refreshing piece that he wrote today. Rather than complain about how people were constantly creating friction within his personal productivity system (GTD), he chose to educate his coworkers and boss about his process. In so doing, he is aiming to help people understand how to get the most out of him. Again, he is all about the “help me help you” mentality! Here’s my take on his post from this morning:

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I love to see a person that gets it. Brian realizes that he is his own boss and that he is essentially running his own company. When one operates in this fashion, much more gets done and a career tends to be more productive.

He also mentions using Remember the Milk for his personal task list. This was great news to me as we are planning on integrating RTM into Pelotonics! This way, your personal task list will never be isolated from your project collaboration software! Imagine entering in a task to RTM via your phone on Jott while you are at the market. (you should capture thoughts as they happen!) After you get back to the office, you will have that task available to you in Pelotonics where you can delegate it out to a specific person on a particular project. Now that’s marrying up ubiquitous capture with project collaboration! More to come on that soon…