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I am a Christian, husband and father.
I am senior pastor of Berwick Anglican Church, in the south eastern growth corridor of Melbourne. I am ordained in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne.
I studied theology at Ridley Melbourne.
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Smartphones – the negatives
Here is what I see as unhelpful about smartphones (some of these points overlap): They can cause you to be enslaved to every latest message/txt/facebook/tweet whatever. They are addictive and hard to not glace at. Will your kids remember you … Continue reading
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Smartphones – the positives
Here is what is good about smartphones (remember I’ve got Android in mind here): they have beautiful typography (on anything with pixel density greater than 300 pixels per inch) they make it easy to process emails that require a quick … Continue reading
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I’ve changed my mind on smartphones
For many years I’ve been a cynic about whether smartphones actually aid productivity. I was proud of my cheapie “phone only” phones. I lugged a little netbook everywhere. However I’ve repented. I’ve been using using the latest and greatest Galaxy … Continue reading
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A Weapon of Mass Destruction
From Arch Hart’s book on “Adrenaline and Stress” (p181.): ‘I sometimes find myself wishing Alexander Graham Bell had not invented the telephone; it has become such an intrusively destructive instrument in the hands of those who do not have the … Continue reading
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How to send and reply to email
This is a great article – I need to apply this. Email can be made more productive with wisdom like this. The key principle is to write the email in a way that makes it easier for the receiver to … Continue reading
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2010 Tech Tools I Can’t Live Without
Here is a dump of my most used tech or productivity tools in the last 12 months: Gmail Google Docs Ubuntu Linux OpenOffice.org Google Chrome Dropbox Book Depository Twitter Google Reader Boxee Facebook WordPress Moleskine Plain Black Cahier Notebook Fisher Space Pen … Continue reading
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» A Pastor’s Study Buzzard Blog
Great pastor’s study: » A Pastor’s Study Buzzard Blog.
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Challie’s Study
He has done cool flickr annotations: http://www.flickr.com/photos/challies/4248235677/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/challies/4248235113/in/photostream/
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Mark Dever’s Study
I love thinking about the shape of a pastor’s week and about their study/office. Here is a tour by Mark Dever: Mark Dever – Study Video from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo. H/T Justin Taylor
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National Organising Week Followup
AAPO did update their website with a great list of activities last week. I wasn’t able to make any events, but I trust it was a great success.
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National Organisation Week Fail
This week the Australasian Association of Professional Organsiers are running “National Organising Week”. I hope they can get organised enough to update their website to tell us what is happening. Peter Walsh is involved and I’m genuinely interested.
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Official Gmail Blog: Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more
Gmail just gets better. New improvements to labels will make those using GTD within gmail even more productive. I use GTD in Gmail labels according to this article on Davidco. It requires no extra plugins. (I only follow the task … Continue reading
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Biblical Productivity Series PDF
Good productivity wisdom for pastors. Spanning more than four months on the blog, C.J.’s 17-part series on biblical productivity has finally concluded. Via email and in personal conversations many of you have requested that the series be provided as a … Continue reading
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Doing What’s In Front of You
From reports of the state funeral for Nancy Bird-Walton, I was fascinated by this quote of hers repeated by Archbishop Jensen: ‘You’ll never reach your greatest potential if you walk past the dish-washer without emptying it or leave your costume … Continue reading
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Email Stress
Nielsen is the usability guru. The lesson is you must master your inbox or it gets hard to do any work at your pc without being worried if there is something critical in your email that you have forgotten about. … Continue reading
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GTD Metrics
In GTD one of the key metrics is not volume but age. Imagine you had to choose one of the following two situations: Todo lists with hundreds of clearly defined actions and items, most of them less than 6 months … Continue reading
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Clearing Your Head
One of the principles of GTD is clearing your head of all naggy cruft. Any annoying reminders, unfinished commitments or jobs, can all create “drag” on your creativity and clear thinking. I’ve renewed my GTD effort in 2009. I’ve enjoyed … Continue reading
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Hot week
This was the temperature when I walked into my office this afternoon:
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I don’t like Google Calendar
I love Gmail. It is clearly the best email client bar none. But Google Calendar is awful. Cumbersome. Slow. The event edit page is slow and ugly. I currently put reminders in it to be emailed to myself – it … Continue reading
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