I kid you not. David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, is a must read. Especially for those people that have the delusion that gadgets are the only way to become productive. It’s a no frills, no gimmicks productivity how-to.
I listened to David’s book a year ago, via an Audible download, great for listening to along side podcasts, and re-read the book when I realised just how valuable his advise is. So when I started The Gadget Show, David was an important guest. He demonstrates just how to become more efficient and effective without the gadgets. As I say in the cast, it’ll be the cheapest podcast I do, you’ll only need to buy a book at the end, not the latest gadget.
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The Gadget Show - 5th March 2005 (39min 14sec): MP3 - 13.6MB
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| Time |
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| 00:00 |
Gadget Show Intro |
| 01:00 |
Intro |
| 01:50 |
The Book “How to Get Things Done” |
| 03:00 |
What David does - flake or productivity expert? |
| 04:55 |
Richard insults David by suggesting his book is simple |
| 05:50 |
Why is “Getting Things Done” great for technology executives |
| 07:20 |
Being productive with or without the gadgets |
| 10:25 |
Mobile phone under or over use : controlling gadget addiction |
| 14:00 |
Using an “inbox” |
| 16:10 |
Why paper is the killer app |
| 19:55 |
Getting Things Done Outlook Add-In |
| 23:40 |
Keeping e-mail at zero : Filers vs. Pilers, and garbage goes where garbage is |
| 27:05 |
What’s David’s favourite gadget |
| 28:30 |
The David Allen Company and the David Allen range of products |
| 32:20 |
David Allen’s Blog : the salon |
| 37:42 |
David Allen’s Productivity Principles |
| 38:34 |
Thanks |
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March 8th, 2005 at 1:16 pm
well done Rich! I listened to it this morning and it’s great.
March 9th, 2005 at 12:39 am
Thanks so much for putting this together (Richard and David!). I enjoyed listening to it, and Richard, found some of the connections you made to DA’s stuff.
Good on you…
March 9th, 2005 at 6:34 pm
congrats its a good thing to interview the masters …
March 10th, 2005 at 8:27 am
Great podcast and interview. I’ve been a GTD follower (sometimes I do it well) since 2002, and it is a powerful tool.
I’ve also got David’s audio programs, including the GTD Fast program, and recommend these highly.
March 10th, 2005 at 8:35 am
TPN’s Gadget Show interviews David Allen
Richard Giles of The Podcast Network’s Gadget Show have posted a great podcast interview with David Allen, the originator of the Getting Things Done methodology. I listened to this ‘cast about a week ago, and can state that it is
March 11th, 2005 at 9:45 am
Thank you for an awesome interview.
I have only recently been intoduced to the concepts behind GTD. This interview clarified a lot for me, the GTD-newbee. I am seriously considering buying the book.
March 14th, 2005 at 2:57 am
Richard, a very insightful interview. I’ve just started re-reading GTD and really implementiong the ideas this week, so hearing your podcast while shoveling snow was a great experience!
I don’t know how you managed to land David, but I appreciate that you did and shared it with us.
March 14th, 2005 at 3:01 am
BTW Richard, I should mention that the full peermalink to this show seems to break when I try to cite you in a href. It seems the quote marks in:
the-“gadget-show”-podcast…featuring-david-allen/
Break the URL completeley. My solution was to simply show the following link, minus that last bit with the quite marks:
http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/gadget/2005/03/05/
That seemed to solve the problem. Might want to look into your archive setup there, since others may not know to remove that last filename bit.
March 14th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
I was interested in listening to the audiobook on www.audible.com
However it says they cannot sell this to me because I live in the UK. Has anyone else had this problem ?
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April 13th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
Andrew,
I used to have a billing address in the USA and I purchased the audiobook in the UK and listened to it in the UK. Then when I changed my billing address to the UK, I was really confused that I could no longer find the book on audible.com, as I wanted to send a link to a friend. I found out that due to different publishing deals in different countries, some audiobooks are only available in certain countries. Getting Things Done is one of the books that’s not available in the UK, at the moment.
Apart from getting yourself a US billing address, I don’t think that there’s a solution. I recommend reading the book rather then listening. I’ve listened to the audiobook lots of times and own the book but have not read it. From looking at the book, I think that I would get a lot out of reading it since it has more information and diagrams.
I hope this helps you to accept the hopelessness of the the situation ;)
Perhaps you could buy a rental investment property in Florida and use that as a billing address for a US credit card? :)
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