Venture capitalist Christian Mayaud, like me a follower of the Getting Things Done philosophy, posts his dream system for high-volume email management, , using technologies available today. [...continue reading]

The NY Times profiles legendary entertainment lawyer Bert Fields: Telling Hollywood It's Out of Order. Fields has never lost a case. My favorite part: Even with the 35-minute commute from Malibu to his office in Century City, Mr. Fields says he still bills more hours than any of the 100 lawyers [...continue reading]

From Mobile Pipeline, via Arieanna Foley: Basically, the new phishing model will start with a log-in page for a public WiFi network. What you'd expect at any hotspot, really. ... Without realizing it, the user will enter personal information to the logon page, whereupon the hacker will proceed to [...continue reading]

Danyel Fisher of Microsoft writes: So you've got a spreadsheet with hierarchical data. Something like this, say, which shows how different divisions of XYZ corp are doing at sprocket, widget, and screw sales: Unfortunately, it's kind of hard to read this. How much overhead is in Sprockets but [...continue reading]

Blogging on this topic may qualify as a self-contradictory act, but here's a useful list of ways to avoid procrastination. [...continue reading]