Archive for the ‘musings’ Category

Primary aims

A lot of the time more recently, I’ve had trains of thought that would make great fodder for a (random/philosophical) post here, but I’m losing the inclination to write them down. The enjoyment of just thinking them, freely, outweighs any “satisfaction” from increasing my post count.
This is mainly due to my current work-related business, [...]

On the student-"real-world" interface

This summer/autumn I went from being a student to a pretty-much real-world worker, in something that approximates to an office.  My job is actually a lot more diverse than most office work, insofar as I have to spend a large portion of my time doing things in other parts of the theatre (bar, cellar, and [...]

The dichotomy of Real Science

OK, so something occurred to me whilst writing my Part II research project report (which is about all I’ve been doing in the last couple of weeks, in case you wondered). Science, looking from a philosophical point of view, has the following underlying axiom:
All data points are imperfect copies of a Platonic Data Point, [...]

Dr Who coming true?

Compare this BBC news article to the first three minutes of this episode of Dr Who (BBC iPlayer link, episode 4/4).
Hmmm…

Personal productivity: where I am now

OK, so I’ve already written about “Getting Things Done” a couple of times. I recently started reading the GTD book itself, and so now is probably a good time for a review of my “system”. Caveat: it’s a really long post, even by my standards!