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Nirvana, or something like it
My friend Rani left me the following intriguing comment: Mike – would love to know how the life/school/work balance (or juggle rather) is going. Have you been able to obtain equilibrium at all? What about nirvana? I was going to reply as a blog post that night but spent too much time working on an …
Drink coffee until it hurts, and you’ll get stronger! ZhurnalyWiki: StrongCoffee
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will …
On being a professional
I don’t take many notes in my 500 class, but I wanted to get this down from the professor, Dr. Marchionini: If you’re a professional, then you have to think. The professional dwells in confusing places where the boundaries are fuzzy and you have to make decisions. If you’re not thinking, you’re a factory worker. …
Storing Nuggets of Information
The following are comments I left on the high-fun personal blog PigPog. Back in 2005, Michael wrote a post on storing and retrieving nuggets of information. This invited a couple of unedited brain-dumps from your Humble Correspondent. I’m posting them here because my original links to the post were broken after a site redesign and …
The Trials of Joblessness
One in a periodic series of re-postings from the my first blog, Oddments of High Unimportance. Oddments of High Unimportance: The Trials of Joblessnes [W]hat I would do differently the next time I find myself without a job, and, just as important, what I should do now to ensure my next jobless stint doesn’t last …
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While crossing campus this morning
Very few people walking about, but I noticed a few folks standing at the base of the flagpole near the quad. Before today, I could not have told you that a flagpole stood there. I looked up and saw the flag at half-mast. And then, of course, it clicked. I walked on a bit to …
By improbably (and I’ve often thought, mistakenly) landing a brief berth in the Technorati Top 100, 43 Folders was also “discovered” by an unspeakable black mildew of PR people who, on their clients’ behalf, “reach out” to bloggers with the gruesome goal of getting them to trade their credibility for access to free crap and …
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