Simplexity is the prefect marriage of simple and complex.  It’s accomplished by creating many simple parts, that create a larger complex system. Miguel Cunha is golden if you don't know. He has a fascinating, although rough draft, article on Simplexity. There are many parallels for business, software, and life in the idea of simplexity, but he focuses on Business. It’s worth a read if you can find the time, otherwise, here are my notes:

• Ashby’s Law: only complex organizing – rather than complicated organizations – provides enough complexity to cope with environmental turbulence.
• Basically, only complexity can cope ...

Productivity, organization, and collaboration software excite me.  Just recently I decided to upgrade my task tracking system, and that is just so fun!  The following is a review of some desktop task management suites.  After many hours in review of online project/task management, I wasn’t prepared to go that route.  We already use Trac internally for dev teams, and each of them has their own way of tracking tasks.  There is just no killer project management suite as of today, sorry.

Certainly there is a fine selection of personally task management software, or so I thought.  After all ...

 As a dedicated software adventurer, Chandler has been on my radar for a very long time.  Since 1.0 came out today, I thought I might give it a go.

What Chandler is: a project that hopes to sync with great services (gmail, outlook, etc) and is therefore quite welcome.

What Chandler is not: functional or useful

Ouch!  I am quite sorry to give such a review of this project.  I know what it takes to pull something like this off, and how much Mitch Kapor’s heart has been poured into it.  Let’s hope this isn’t a ...