JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

David Allen showed me a new way to live today said Robert Scoble this week. The author of Getting Things Done has changed the lives of many others too, including Ted and me. David Allen has even impacted our children. Three months ago I read Getting Things Done and I began implementing some of the […]

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Last week Lisa Williams discussed what Clive Thompson at Collison Detections posted in My So-Called Blog. I liked what he wrote about writing, in describing the effect the Internet will have on society, as one mass therapy experiment…. The mere process of writing — even if you don’t write about yourself — is inherently exploratory, […]

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I’ve waited a long time to read this new novel, the latest from David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars. When I went to reserve the book at the library, I was already number 88. Thanks to the 22 or so copies in circulation in our county, it only took 3 months for me […]

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Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher sat on my desk for a while and I finally got around to skimming through it last week. So this review will be more of an overview because I didn’t thoroughly read it, rather I skimmed through sections. Why did I skim this book, rather than read it? Curious, I […]

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Browsing through John Porcaro’s blog recently, this quote caught my eye and inspired me: Controlling something with lots of variables, details, and horizons requires a matching number of parts and processes to control the whole. If you try to manage something complex with too simple a system, you will do nothing but add to the […]

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