@duregger here is how I am rolling right now. :)

Snow is making roads slick already in Edmond, Ok

cheap signaling or fish bumper sticker faith

 

"It is one thing to be cosmetically defiant of authority by wearing conventional clothes - what social scientists and economists call "cheap signaling - and another to prove willingness to translate belief into action." - Dr. Taleb in The Black Swan

 

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If you ever wanted to ask, here is how:

http://www.formspring.me/tonysteward

Oh there you are

Getting ready for an afternoon of shooting. Exciting to see a low lying project becoming reality!!

Things I Want in 2010 from Google

1. I want Google Apps for a Domain to work as my Google Account (For Android devices, YouTube, and on)
2. I want to be able to give my Exchange OWA info to Gmail and to Google Calendar and for it to work like an UI for those accounts. (Just how any other Mail or Calendar program would with the right information.)
3. For other accounts I add to my Gmail "accounts and import" I want Gmail to detect other Gmail accounts I've put there and add the ability for their Gtalk accounts to be integrated. (In similar fashion as to what Facebook Chat does with different people lists).
   
4. It is great you dropped Gears - could you get HTML 5 working so we can have offline mode again across the board?
5. I want the Gtalk chat that is in Gmail integrated into Google Documents so I can drag and share documents and chat using a familiar interface.
6. I want Google Voice integrated into Gtalk so I can initiate calls and send sms through it.
7. I want my contacts on my Google Account to detect when there are other Google users with Profiles, and to ask me if I would like to have their contact information sycned with their Google Profile at first, and when they make updates. (like Plaxo but not terrible like Plaxo)

What would you like to see from Google in 2010?

Gospel Dance Aerobics - Sanctified Slide

My New Favorite Email Habit - The Batch Send

This is a bit nerdy, but during times like the holidays when I get a chance for reflection and perspective I always find things to tweak and change. One of my newest realizations is the different frame of mind it takes to create, make and move projects forward versus the frame of mind it takes to review, organize and capture.

This means that when I go to check my email inbox for new messages I am in a different frame of mind then when I am working on projects and trying to reply to emails. The main reason for the distinction is that as I work through the day and just send emails as they come to mind to be sent, I usually get replies right back - when I am in still in the frame of mind of moving things forward and "Making." But I keep letting new messages distract me and I try to review and process the new information into things that are actionable or not "Manage."

All that aside what I am doing now is when I need to send a message I save it as a draft until I am done "Making" for that project, idea or creatively working on writing the messages. Then when I am ready I send them all and then close my email. I am trying to find the most strategic times for "sending" so that I have distance from the conversations to allow myself to work. Then, when I am ready, I get in a "Management" frame of mind and go check my inbox and purely organize and sort the new messages in the Inbox Zero method that focuses on what's actionable.

It may sound weird and all but I've found it a much more sustainable and sane way of dealing with all the conversations I have versus the "Triage" method of checking and switching between "maker" and "manager" on the fly all the time.

What new things are you doing this year?