Helix: because what this industry needs is more crotchety men running things.

You're probably thinking to yourself, "Self, whatever happened to the good old days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Dave Trusdale ran Tangent with a fist of iron and a heart of gold(en age science fiction)." Be not alarmed! Someone has seen the hole, nay, void, created by his absense and has stepped up to the challenge.

http://webnews.sff.net/read?cmd=read&group=sff.publishing.helix&artnum=577

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I am finding patterns in my work behavior. I will go to a meeting, or get something off the printer, or get distracted by a question from someone. And when I turn back to my work, I will have no idea what I was doing or what needs to be done next. I'll be looking at the open windows at the top of my screen, and the open emails in my work box, and all the stacks of papers I'm working around, and I'll be almost at the freakout stage. And then I almost invariably will pull my headphones on without even thinking about it, and no sooner do I hear the music that I'll remember exactly what my next task is. It's a nice trick.

I also have an agenda from a meeting today which is all notes around the outer edges, some for emails, some to be added to my to-do list which varies in importance between "this is actually somethign you need to do" and "this is somethign that you emailed soemone about and shouldn't forget until they reply." I have too many meetings, and to make things worse, I keep thinking, "Okay, I really need to meet with these people about these things." I don't need more meetings, I don't.

Which reminds me that I need to go send an email about a meeting now.