Ryan Tomayko

Do It Now —

Nice. The todo / email / information “management system” I’ve been using for a while has a name now:

This doesn’t just apply to email, of course — it works for any todo list. But only if you say no to reordering, prioritizing, estimating deadlines, and doing the most important things first. Forget all that. Do it now.

Seriously. All that productivity snake oil is destroying your productivity. Being productive at managing productivity is not the same as being productive.

Journalistic Capture and Fixing CNBC —

Aaron Swartz explains why he (and friends) put fixcnbc.com together. I’ve always been skeptical of petition sites but his logic is sound here.

Jottit —

Aaron is at it again. This looks like the perfect web based notepad.

Sci Foo 2007 Gossip Liveblog [aaronsw.com] —

WTF is going on here? Neil Stephenson, Martha Stewart, The Dyson Family (as in vacuums), The President of The Royal Society, Sergey Brin, Nat, and Aaron kicking it on Google campus? This is apparently actually happening right now.

A Chat with Aaron Swartz —

Q: Are you working for Reddit as full-time programmer? A: No, I left reddit several months ago. Q: Why did you leave? A: My boss asked me to.

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel —

Aaron Swartz reviews a newish book on Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. Insanely good topic, bad book?

Intelligent Abstractions —

Sometimes I think Aaron’s brain is my brain in the future. I’ve had all of these same ideas rattle around in my brain before but they never seem to line up so neatly for me. It bugs me a little.

Office Space (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) —

I give Aaron two weeks (tops!) at Wired before he’s off to something bigger and better.