Kourosh Dini's Blog, page 31

A Guiding Principle of Task Management

Aguiding principle of any solid task management solution is a clear mind. For example, the popular productivity solutionGetting Things Donefocuses on what it would take to honestly clear the mind, and then designing our environments and systems accordingly.

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Lives of the Kingdom – December 20, 2016 (Piano)

Lives of the Kingdom

December 20, 2016

Piano Sketch – December 14, 2016

Untitled

Piano –C minor

December 14, 2016 –Morning

Untitled – Piano and Synthesizer – C-minor

Untitled

Piano and synthesizer –C minor

December 8, 2016 –Morning

Zen & The Art of Work — Making Decisions

I’ve been around the Intertubes for a while now, and I’m still trying to figure outthe best means of handling its what’sits and whatnots.

In today’s adventures, I’ve published a post to three places:

ZenandtheArtofWork.com LinkedIn Medium

I’ve posted once before to Medium and never to LinkedIn. That’s either wise, or it’s not wise. It could also be something else. But I’m not going there.

In any case, the post isabout making decisionswhich, I guess, is what I did when I posted it to thr...

Bach’s Toccata in D minor – an Extended Reinterpretation

Bach’s Toccata is a glorious piece. In this particular performance, I play the unmodified work on the piano and then begin a reinterpretation starting with a swelling synthesizer. The synthesizer is a customized patch using Steinberg’s Halion. The piano is a Yamaha CP4. The visualization is through iZotope’s Ozone 7 Insight plug-in.

As with all my performances, it was done in one take, though I made some minor modifications and clean up before exporting it to a single file.

The piece was...

Courage to Pause

We can only act here and now.

Of course, this seems obvious, but it is not. In fact, there are reasons to hide from the present moment, and we can easily do so without realizing it.

Acting from the present means directly facing the real limits of time and attention. We would realize that whatever we choose to do now will take every other choice off the table, at least for now. There are many feelings that come with that knowledge.

But when we do act with full presence, we face the l...

Zen & the Piano

Music reflects life as does art in general. The pieces in Zen & the Pianocomprise young and old tracks. Some works have lived and evolved over many years, while others appearonly once as improvisations, never to beperformed again. Most are somewhere in between. Zen & The Piano is a set of music pieces accompanying and included in the purchase of the Zen & The Art of Work course.

Now also available at iTunes.

Zen & the Piano by Kourosh Dini

Zen & The Art of Work – Find calm in work and play.

Zen & The Art of Work is a set of exercises to help you do more and stress less. It can help you in fields of business, school, the creative arts, home and more. You can evenlearn todevelop a path of mastery in whatever field you choose. The course can help you build a new system or return to one if you’ve “fallen off the wagon”. It can also fit well with a system you already have.

Followers of themailing list should have already received (or will receive soon) the Introduction module. If...

GTD & Creativity

Can GTD be used for creative work?

In short, yes.

But, let’s consider thedebate from either side:

Dave Lee writesthat2-minute or less tasks, typical of GTD,can be problematic. He thenoffers a solution of organizing work by session. Steven Bradley talks about identifying “fuzzy” work.He considersthe importance of focusfor creative work. In an interview withTodd Henry by David Allen, Henry describes the importance of creating rhythms in our work. He also focuses on the importance of...