Geekido

Steve Pavlina had a blog entry on Personal Productivity Scaffolds that caught my eye. I am going to try to apply this approach to blogging and other online networking efforts to make them more consistent, and make sure they get enough time without getting too much.I laid a foundation a while ago with a “daily” tag in del.icio.us for the sites I wanted to check daily. Now I will make myself a scaffold for daily startup that will include 43things, possibly writing a blog entry (though this kind of works into 43things), other blogs where I may want to comment instead of just read, LinkedIn and other social networking sites, and e-mails to keep in touch.If I can get a good checklist/schedule going, I should be able to keep current with all of them, and not waste more time than I need to during the rest of the day going back and revisiting all the time.

I came up with my personal definition of mastery as a security professional. I realized there was no longer any joy in browsing the security books at the bookstore, because there were no useful security books there for me. There might be the odd useful chapter here or there, but by and large every book had stuff I already new. I was no longer learning the field, but growing with it as it grew via online sources.So now I’m shooting for the same level of mastery with Rails, agile development, project management, and business.