Kanban is a visual task management method that helps teams and individuals organize their workflow using a board with columns. The system is built on the principle of “don’t start new work until you finish what’s already in progress,” making it easy to see where tasks get stuck, who’s overloaded, and what’s slowing things down. In this article, we break down the key elements and principles of Kanban, the six core practices of the method, and a step-by-step plan for getting started.
GTD (Getting Things Done) is David Allen’s task management methodology — the system that inspired Building a Second Brain, Bullet Journaling, and countless other planning frameworks. In this article, we’ll show you how to conquer inbox chaos, walk you through the 5-question task processing algorithm, explain how to actually use your Someday list, and share tips so your system doesn’t fall apart after a month.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. The term was born when an experiment by American aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. failed. He wanted to measure how many Gs people would experience in a newly designed airplane. To find out, a special sled with a rocket engine was fired up and abruptly stopped. Unfortunately, the sensors did not show its true G force as the technicians had installed them wrong.
