Sysadmin Field Notes

October 2, 2006

So the process of organizing really comes down to having a system for automating decisions about where everything goes. Disorganized people have few or no systems, so they must make every decision on a case by case basis. Eventually this becomes overwhelming, and clutter begins to pile up.

-- Getting Organized by Steve Pavlina

Here's my public admission (for those who don't know me). I am a seriously disorganized person. Hopefully this admission won't make me un-hireable by people in the future reading this after getting here from a link on my resume. If, future potential employer, you are reading this, you should take into account that I'm publicly putting myself out there right now to try and change this, because it bothers me greatly.

My disorganization manifests itself in many ways:

1. I miss meetings
2. I forget where I'm supposed to be at any given time
3. My room is filled with clutter>
4. I can never find anything
5. I lose things almost instantaneously upon setting them down.

In short, I suspect my life is much more stressful than it needs to be. That bothers me, so I'm changing it. What's more, I'm doing it out in front of everyone here, even though it's embar. I'm also hoping that maybe you guys might find something I do interesting, useful, or instructive for your own personal causes.

Is this the most important thing to change about myself? I don't think so, but I do think it makes a great starting point.

So I don't know exactly where it will lead, but I'll keep working at it and posting here. So at the end of 60 days I plan to be a lot more better about managing my time and being able to locate things I need.