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Productivity is widely pursued: managers want to measure it, workers want to maximize it, and just about everyone seems to want to talk about it. Productivity-enhancing systems abound, from Frankln-Covey to GTD. Most of the productivity systems I’ve seen focus on getting as many things accomplished as possible.

More accomplishment is good, right? Unfortunately, most productivity systems don’t adequately address the concept of opportunity cost: the notion that if you decide to do task A right now, you’re also deciding not to do task B, C, or D right now.

Productivity, to me, is not about how much you get done, but about how much of the right things you get done. Put another way, productivity should be about managing opportunity costs, not merely about managing time.

Frog Design has come up with a concept for a 30-year LED-based “lightbulb” that is dim-able, draws less energy than a CFL, and fits in any standard incandescent light socket. They say they’re trying to bring it to market, but I wasn’t able to find any information on timing of that release or what it will cost.

A family member sent me this news item:

“Section 8 of Senate Bill 200 is a wide open door for any judge to censor anything that condemns homosexuality, including Scripture,” Colorado State Rep. Kevin Lundberg said.

Many Christians fear that one day the Bible will be considered illegal in America.

“I do believe that the Bible is banned, under the plain language of this new statute,” Steve Crampton, general counsel of the pro-family Liberty Counsel, said, indicating he believes that day is already here. — “Censoring the Bible? It Could Happen in CO“, CBNnews, retrieved 2008-Aug-20.

Could there really be such a bill under consideration? Fortunately, the State of Colorado posts all bills under consideration by the Senate in PDF format: Bill 08-200 is no exception.

This whole fiasco appears to be much ado about nothing: the bill in question basically prohibits owners of businesses (not churches or private associations, mind you) from doing things like posting “gays not allowed” signs.

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It’s as if H.P. Lovecraft, returned from the dead and speaking by seance to Larry Wall, designed a language both elegant and terrifying for his Elder Things to write programs in… — Matt Olson, asr

And people wonder why I love Perl. ;-)

In response to Buy n Large to Brand Direction “North”, John Gruber writes:

What’s next, the Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment? Jiminy.– DaringFireball

I can’t tell if he knows that “Buy n Large” is the pretend company from Wall-E or not. Were you kidding, John, or did you really think someone was trying to brand a compass direction?