I’m always on the lookout for lifehacks that are easily implemented and offer big boosts in productivity. So when I saw a bunch of articles about the alleged health benefits of ditching your chair for a standing desk, I was intrigued. I filed it away as something to try, but I didn’t quite have the [...]
Disclaimer: This is a review of The Personal MBA. I have no prior relationship with Josh Kaufman, the author, and I am not being compensated for this review. However, Josh did send me an unsolicited pre-release copy of the book. I started writing a long book review of The Personal MBA , but let’s face [...]
I’ve blogged a couple times about the Pomodoro Technique and I always invariably get a few questions from folks who haven’t heard of it before and want to know how it works. The Pomodoro has gotten more popular over the last couple years since I first heard about it, so I figured I’d write up [...]
Photo by emdot I’ve written before about how I started reading a lot when I was pretty young, and I’ve kept reading throughout my life. Books have a very special ability to take you to new places, to open up new worlds, to introduce and explain fascinating things. It boggles my mind how few people [...]
At the beginning of 2010, I started reading a book called The Greatest Secret in the World which is basically a motivational book that teaches you to brainwash yourself The book was originally written in the 1960s as a motivational tool for salespeople, and was titled The Greatest Salesman in the World. It was republished [...]
I just threw away a small dumpster worth of shredded paper, which was the second half on my journey toward going completely paperless. I’m probably as close as I’m ever going to get at this point: all of my paper records consist of a small box of tax records, organized by year, and a very [...]
I switched to a Mac in 2007 and ever since then, I’ve been doing all my programming in Textmate, which I love. Truly, it’s a great text editor and the bundles enhance the functionality a great deal. However, I’ve been thinking for awhile about switching to a full-blown IDE, primarily for the debugging. Debugging PHP [...]
I recently violated my Kindle-only rule and purchased a dead-tree book. And not just any book, but a huge book: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, which clocks in at just over 1000 pages and 6.5 pounds. I’m not a mathematician, so I can only remark on the book from the perspective of a self-learner, but [...]
Last week, I posted a review of the FINIS SwiMP3 waterproof MP3 player. I’ve had a few more days with it in the pool, and I wanted to update my review and also report on a couple things that annoyed me, and how I’ve decided to get around them. First, a minor annoyance: I can’t [...]
