Sometimes I read books not to learn anything new but to reinforce something I should have learned already. When I read David Allen's Getting Things Done back in March, I took several of its precepts to heart, and I even wrote a piece of software to help me implement the system. I recently picked up Ready For Anything to remind me of some of the details of the process, and I hoped to gain some new insights and techniques. Well, I succeeded in the former, but was disappointed in the latter.

Ready For Anything is a collection of David Allen's email newsletters turned into 52 mini essays on various aspects of the Getting Things Done system. It reaffirmed for me the importance of the Weekly Review and helped me realize that I wasn't being sufficiently rigorous about writing down the next physical action for each project in the system. With those tweaks, my personal implementation of Getting Things Done is improved, and therefore, it was useful for me to read the book, but I can't recommend it to a general audience. It's a bit too long-winded and meandering.