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by c0riander 16y ago
This is a great idea. Would it be possible to include a one or two sentence summary (very short) about each book? Otherwise we're just judging books by their covers...
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Google Wave Decision Shows Strong Innovation Management(blogs.hbr.org)
12 points by c0riander 16y ago|1 comments
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by c0riander 16y ago
It doesn't necessarily have to be a specific person, either -- just a public commitment. If you say "look for a new post on my blog every Monday," you'll feel pressure to deliver.
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The Yoga Entrepreneur(nytimes.com)
1 points by c0riander 16y ago|0 comments
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Advanced Entrepreneurship: Your Every Move, Your Culture(blogs.hbr.org)
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The Invention of Sarcasm(cheeptalk.wordpress.com)
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by c0riander 16y ago
This study may show that more sleep may reduce longevity, but it doesn't say anything about daily well-being, alertness, and general state of mind. If I had to choose between more sleep and feeling better and being more productive everyday
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Studying the elusive fag hag(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by c0riander 16y ago|0 comments
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by c0riander 16y ago
> if the ability to remember is such a good thing, why hasn't evolution given us photographic memories? And the other answer: Evolution doesn't select for perfection, just for sufficiency. Even in the context of this article, in terms
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by c0riander 16y ago
Good ideas have more room for error -- you can take a great idea and do good work and still be successful. Bad ideas require greatness; you have to get it just right. I think it's the wiggle room that a good idea affords that people latch
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by c0riander 16y ago
Obviously yoga and pilates are gentler (and thus less dramatic in their results), but for me it comes down to a question of what's sustainable for me. For whatever reason, I'm far more comfortable and excited to spend several hours a week
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Superstitious? Why Even Rational People Hate to Tempt Fate(spring.org.uk)
2 points by c0riander 16y ago|1 comments
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Twenty-One Women Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business Books(forbes.com)
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A Guide to Complaints That Get Results(nytimes.com)
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by c0riander 16y ago
George Washington amassed most of his wealth through his marriage to Martha (1759), not through the revolution. Prior to that, he was a deeply indebted commissioned soldier and former small-time planter.
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by c0riander 16y ago
I basically live in Word, both at work and at home, and have done so since elementary school (well, word processors, at least) -- as a result, I probably know how to use Word better (or I should say, more powerfully) than 98% of users, if n
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by c0riander 16y ago
There's a very good reason why Americans don't carry federal identification at all times, even though other nationals often do. Constitutionally, states must honor with "full faith and credit" other states' "public Acts, Records, and judic
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Risk-taking and (a Woman's) Touch(twenty2five.blogspot.com)
1 points by c0riander 16y ago|0 comments
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How (and when) to motivate yourself(blogs.hbr.org)
100 points by c0riander 16y ago|16 comments
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Forgiving yourself eases procrastination(bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)
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Is There a "Moral Molecule"?(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by c0riander 16y ago
The reason these words are abused is because they work -- rather than admonishing that they "should no longer be used, ever, in any context except derisive mocking," it seems a bit more productive to recognize that there are times and place
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Rutgers lab studies female orgasm through brain imaging(nj.com)
75 points by c0riander 16y ago|30 comments
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by c0riander 16y ago
Correlation =/= causation. So many leaps are being made here. > One study of 60 healthy young adults (in their 20s and 30s) found that the fatter members of the group had significantly lower gray-matter densities in several brain region
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by c0riander 16y ago
The beginning of the essay makes it clear that "This essay was given as a talk at SUNY Buffalo, 28 January 2010, the day after Howard Zinn’s death. I have left the text unaltered, to better reflect the spirit of the talk." So to the audienc
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by c0riander 16y ago
I think a great deal of the confusion the article is conveying is not so much about the effect of exercise on metabolism and body composition, but rather its effect on appetite. One of the reasons that we're starting to hear obesity specia
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by c0riander 16y ago
To be fair, the bun is chock-full of carbs (namely: energy).
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by c0riander 17y ago
I'm pretty sure your children will be able to use it -- they'll be eligible because they were a dependent of a member. (Just like your spouse would be eligible as well, because they are the spouse of a member.) That's all it takes, really.