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Your taste is why your work disappoints you.
I love this observation about taste and creative work from Ira Glass: Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do cr
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Fish don't know they're in water
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Hacking The Status Game
I was taking an improv class, and the instructor gave us a game to play before getting on stage, so that we can turn off our over-rationalizing minds and get into the flow. The game was called Status , and it went like this:
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Going Paper-Free for $220
It's 2011. Personal computers have been around and popular for well over a decade now, and yet we still have to deal with a huge amount of physical paper.
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Want to be a leader? Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will.
When you're starting a business, you have to wear a lot of hats. You don't have an HR department, or an IT department, or a marketing department, or any specialized department, so if a press...
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Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
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How I retired in 9 years on a corporate programmer salary
I have been asked many times to provide some more gritty details on how I became Mr. Money Mustache at such an early age. Commenters and email writers have asked me to provide Salaries and Savings …
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The Document Which Was Formerly Called The MIT Guide to Lockpicking
Which is too bad in a way. I thought it was a cool piece of urban folklore no matter where it came from, and it contributed to giving college students everywhere a reputation for healthy rebeliousness.
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Why you don't steal from a hacker.
So during the London riots I return home the next morning to find my flat ransacked and my Macbook Pro laptop stolen! Police showed ...
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Being Frugal Makes You A Loser
I'm all for saving money. I get as much pleasure watching my bank account grow as I do from buying things or taking trips. But, people often take frugality too far. I don't care if you're poor, and if you're reading this you're not actually poor, there are things where you should always spend a
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Why Chinese Mothers are Not Superior (from a female Chinese engineer)
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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When you want to quit because it's just not worth it
Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete melt-down? Well, at least you're in good company.
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Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End
I am not angry, this is just the end of a love story, and i want to say goodbye.
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How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper
There’s a provincial general election here in Prince Edward Island on October 3 this fall, and over the past month here at Reinvented we’ve been ramping up the technology side of the Elections PEI operation as planning and preparation for the election is now in full swing.
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