26 days ago
gleuschk : pessimistic (though generally accurate) life advice: - part of a pair with the next one
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26 days ago
gleuschk : optimistic (though generally accurate) life advice: - part of a pair with the previous one
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gleuschk : OK Computer? - Front Page - Mike Power's Website - truth. makes me want to learn an honest trade
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deusx : Op-Ed Contributor - Put a Little Science in Your Life - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - "Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable — a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is emp
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4 month ago
philgyford : Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All - New York Times - A paper rebuts the Easterlin paradox (that above a certain level money doesn't make one happier). (via Kevin Kelly)
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5 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Anatomy of a ‘Blogging will kill you’ story: Why I didn’t make the cut - Anatomy of a ‘Blogging will kill you’ story: Why I didn’t make the cut: "If you’re stressed out over 5,000 RSS feeds chances are good you’d be stressed by any profession you chose."
deusx : Anatomy of a ‘Blogging will kill you’ story: Why I didn’t make the cut | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - "If you’re stressed out over 5,000 RSS feeds chances are good you’d be stressed by any profession you chose."
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6 month ago
deusx : Up With Grups - The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood -- New York Magazine - "It’s about reimagining adulthood as a period defined by promise, rather than compromise. And who can’t relate to that?"
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6 month ago
deusx : Keeping It Simple - "My business plan is: 1. Create high-quality content. 2. Tell people about it. 3. Profit."
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6 month ago
deusx : Notional Slurry » There are exactly two ways: one, and many - "So a generalist pays the rent, in the end, by having a reputation (social capital) and a wide-ranging interest (intellectual capital) and trading those for money."
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deusx : The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors - New York Times - "Xiang Yu was a Chinese general in the third century B.C. who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy territory and performed an experiment in decision making. He crushed his troops’ cooking pots and burned their ships."
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7 month ago
deusx : Psychology Today: The Call of Solitude - "That is the real message of alonetime, and it is through that profound self-awareness, that inner aloneness, that our lives will flower."
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8 month ago
adamrg : Andrew Olmsted: Final Post - .
Andy Baio : Army Major Andrew Olmsted's final post - blogging from the front lines of the war, he was the first casualty of 2008 [via]
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8 month ago
philgyford : Death and Underachievement: A Guide to Happiness in Work | 43 Folders - Maybe my resolution should be "just be content". But then I'd try too hard to achieve it.
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9 month ago
adamrg : Five dangerous things you should let your kids do. - Gever Tulley is my new hero.
deusx : TED | Talks | Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video) - "Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids -- and spells out 5 (and really, he's got 6) dangerous things you should let your kids do"
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9 month ago
Rod Begbie : Passage - Beautiful game/piece of art. Play it for five minutes (important note: you can move up and down, as well as left and right), then read the creator's statement. Lovely. [via] #
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9 month ago
philgyford : Leslie Harpold | 43 Folders - "What Would Leslie Do" has been a handy mantra for me in awkward situations this past year. Many wise words here. (via Haddock)
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10 month ago
deusx : How to Quit a Bad Habit by Answering Four Power Questions - "You never simply quit something, you do something else instead."
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deusx : SuicideGirls > News > Geek > Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: A Mind Forever Voyaging - "I think of my time as a valuable currency that must be earned by anyone who wants me to exchange it for whatever they’re selling."
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10 month ago
philgyford : Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert | Excerpt - "Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had presumed." "Happiness is not really what or where we thought it was." (via Haddock)
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10 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: What Do I Do When I Want to Do Everything?: A Revolutionary Programme for Doing Everything That You Love: Books: Barbara Sher - The idea of self-help books makes me cringe, but this does sound intriguing... (via Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian)
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10 month ago
philgyford : ScienceDirect - Journal of Vocational Behavior : The role of chance events in career decision making - "Chance events were reported as influencing the career decisions of 69.1% of the sample." (via Haddock)
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10 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success: Books: Marci Alboher - Also sounds cringeworthy (like most self-help books) but possibly ideal. (via Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian)
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11 month ago
gleuschk : Edge-Serpentine Gallery: FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - Dean Kamen's is wrong in three different ways
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12 month ago
philgyford : Johnaugust.com » Quitting, and the age question - "It’s not harder for an older writer to start. It’s just easier to quit." Replace "writer" with pretty much any profession. Harsh truths.
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