Posted in Creativity, Gadget Lust, Happiness on Dec 21st, 2010
We think we know what we want, but we don’t. We think we want lower prices so we can spend less money and buy more things. We think we want to read blogs that give us good advice on how to manage our money. We think that controlling when and how we spend money will [...]
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Posted in Creativity, Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2010
Wordle is a fun site that takes data and turns it into words. You can input a web address or other kinds of data to see what it looks like in tag-cloud format. Here is what this site looks like: Yikes! Way too much cell phone stuff and way too little about money. I better [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Writing on Dec 30th, 2008
by martinhoward Routines are a great way to get things done consistently and over long-term periods of time. It’s like brushing your teeth—you do it as part of your morning/night routine and don’t really give it much thought. Whatever negatives they may have (and we’ll get to that in a second), you can’t argue with [...]
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Posted in Books, Creativity, Writing on Oct 29th, 2008
I had never heard of Ben Fountain until I starter hearing some buzz for his book of short stories, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. I made a note of the good buzz his book had going for him and I moved on. Then I read this article in the New Yorker about him and how [...]
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