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Sometimes we do find the words to express an idea, and only then realize what a stupid idea it is. This experience would suggest that our thoughts are not as clean and beautiful as we would like to believe. Instead of blaming language for failing to capture our thoughts, maybe we should thank it for …
Working from home means you can work any 18 hours of the day that you choose. Do You Want to Blog Full-Time? Here’s a Reality Check That Nobody Else Will Give You Source: thefinancialblogger.com
Using Keyboard Maestro to fix Safari 5.1 keyboard dumbnesses
The MikeBook has been receiving tons of app upgrades due to Lion (haven’t upgraded yet; waiting a few months for the bugs to shake out). In general, the app upgrades have caused no problem except for Safari, which disabled the Page Up, Page Down, Home and End keys. I mean…what?? Sorry, Apple, but I don’t …
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Vivian Maier
In 2007, John Maloof ran across a storage locker at a thrift auction house that contained over 100,000 negatives of pictures. The photos spanned the years from the 1950s–1990s and were primarily urban scenes of Chicago and New York. Maloof began posting the pictures on a blog and dug into the life of the woman …
Everything You Want, You Already Have « Books for Behavior Change
Hoffman explains the nature of his work by offering an extended analogy. In the process, he deftly summarizes a lot of Eastern spiritual teachings. Unfortunately, the clip omits Hoffman’s concluding line—one that throws the premise of many self-help books into question. Here’s that line: “When you get the blanket thing, you can relax, because everything …
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Wednesday Workout: Testing your assumptions | I Will Teach You To Be Rich
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. — Mike Tyson Wednesday Workout: Testing your assumptions | I Will Teach You To Be Rich
The Church of Rationality
Years back, when I was an angry young man, I read an interview with Phil Collins. Phil Collins might seem like an inappropriate music interest for an angry young man, and that’s right, but I was also a bored young man; it seems the two often go together. Anyway, Collins said something remarkable, along the …
A Flapper’s Dictionary
Ran across this delightful post from a used bookseller in Pennsylvania. He acquired the July 1922 edition of Flapper magazine and reproduced an uncredited article that listed phrases and jargon that, while probably quite cheeky at the time, seem quaint and amusing now. It’s fun working out the chain of associations that lead from the …
Why goal setting doesn’t work | Psychology Today
L.A. King and C.M. Burton in an article entitled, The Hazards of Goal Pursuit, for the American Psychological Association, argue that goals should be used only in the narrowest of circumstances: “The optimally striving individual ought to endeavor to achieve and approach goals that only slightly implicate the self; that are only moderately important, fairly …
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