Today, I received an advanced uncorrected proof of David Allen’s upcoming sequel to Getting Things Done, titled Making It All Work. The book will be released in December, so I won’t tell you much about it, for I really don’t like spoilers. Instead, I will just share the following opening quote, which I found amazingly insightful.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Whitehead was the father of process philosophy, and one of my very many projects (currently labeled with a “Lifetime” horizon in my Salesforce.com system) is to better understand how the work of Kurt Gödel, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein contributed to shape modern 20th Century thinking, redefining our understanding of Reality — a Reality defined by constant change and absolute relativism.

Many thanks to David and Richard for sharing this advanced copy with me.