How I’m Organizing My Life this Fall | Advice

I found myself recently, as the lazy quiet of summer gave way to the noisy insistence of the fall, being more irritable than normal. I would get really annoyed about the latest blown save for the Washington Nationals, or I'd walk into a cluttered room and in a frantic fit decide I had to clean that room right away because it was intolerable the way that it was currently laid out. Now I'm familiar with this routine because it's my mind's way of telling me that now that the fall is beginning, it's time to turn back on some more serious organizational systems. I slow down for the summer, but when the fall starts, my mind begins to push back and say, we gotta get more structured. So I did. Last week, I sat down and figured out the exact setup for my organizational systems that I'm gonna run this fall, including the specific tools I will use and the processes I will use with those tools. And this is what I wanna talk to you about today. I'm gonna put on my productivity nerd hat and walk you through the exact setup I will be using this fall to organize my life. But I'm not just gonna leave it there. I'll then step back and talk about a, why it's important in general to periodically update or change your organizational systems and b, give you some best practices for building a system that fits your needs for this upcoming fall. And in case you're wondering, my productivity nerd hat, it features David Allen making out with a Trello board. It's just pretty disturbing. Alright. So we got a lot of advice and ideas to cover in this episode. So let's get right into it. Alright. So here's my plan. We're gonna proceed in three parts. In the first part, I'll go through the details of my system for the fall of twenty twenty six, then we'll talk about why tweaking your systems like I do is actually a good thing. And then we'll talk about best practices when you're creating your own system for this upcoming fall. Now a quick disclaimer before we get started. I should briefly address the meta question of why do we care about organizational systems at all? I mean, didn't Ginny Odell teach us that productivity is simply the subordination of human individuality to the industrializing logics of late stage capitalism? In other words, there's a bit of a, hey, let's not talk too much about organizational system vibe on the Internet these days. But here's why I think it's important. Right? My main role is a computer science as a computer scientist who studies human flourishing in a technological world. One of the things I've learned is the technological world throws a lot of distractions and a lot of work and a lot of shiny objects at you. And if you do not have an intentional plan for how to organize what you …