Carlos Matallín

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The way I work

I can’t believe it! Two consecutive weeks posting in the blog! Don’t panic, I decided to find time and write something whenever I had some free time so I could post at least once per week. Do you like the idea?

For some time now I wanted to share some tricks and recommendations I follow in order to enhance my productivity and as some great people have shared theirs recently and others asked me to do so, it wasn’t a really hard decision to take.

There are many resources out there that explain what is GTD, and this kind of methodologies focused on productivity. Of course, if I had to recommend you anything about it besides all the links I provide in the post I would say you to read Getting Things Done by David Allen, take a look at Wikipedia which always helps, and if you speak Spanish (surely, though you are reading in English now) subscribe to Think Wasabi, it has some great articles about productivity.

Now that we are in context I have to tell you that all that is bullshit.

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Switched

A fortnight ago I finally committed the bought of the aluminium MacBook I so much longed. For the geekiest ones’ interest it’s the basic model, because I actually didn’t need much more performance and I do appreciate the lightness of a smaller laptop.

I had already fallen in love with this redesigned Apple laptop before it was released in the latest 2008, so when it came the Christmas time and my birthday I gathered all the income I could in order to renew my (not very old) PC.

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