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How the Search for Your Life’s Work is Making Your Working Life Miserable(calnewport.com)
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Why Rupert Duchesne has no problem being a nerd(theglobeandmail.com)
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by da5e 16y ago
Good point. I use a large drawing pad and sort of sketch out and arrange keypoints as I go along. This recent HN item is relevant: http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/10/08/monday-master-class-ho...
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by da5e 16y ago
Good point. This recent HN item speaks to that. http://www.stevestreeting.com/2010/09/04/work-2-0/ The interruptible programmer
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by da5e 16y ago
Meat of the article: "Repeated fresh attacks are how hard problems are solved in the real world. ... Until you’ve approached a problem fresh, 3 – 4 times, you haven’t really yet tried to solve it."
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How to Buy a Round-the-World Plane Ticket (That Kicks Ass)(fourhourworkweek.com)
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by da5e 16y ago
Yes, but Babbage didn't ship.
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How to Be More Creative (Step 1: Destroy)(thetalentcode.com)
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by da5e 16y ago
Keep the fruits and nuts and ditch the steak. But a big yes on the exercise. Consider yourself lucky that you don't have to get into a "food fight" with yourself.
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by da5e 16y ago
This url will get you the entire article including the 12 points mentioned. http://venturesocially.tumblr.com/tagged/elevator_pitch
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by da5e 16y ago
I've also been an avid reader forever and I've started feeling like Gloria from White Men Can't Jump, " I'm filled with more useless goddamn information than any human being on this fucking planet!" so now I do what I (rather grandiosely) c
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Forget Just Copyright, Now People Are Trademarking Music As Well(techdirt.com)
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Tonight: 400 Free Tickets to “Waiting for Superman”(fourhourworkweek.com)
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Web 3.0/xWeb(evri.com)
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by da5e 16y ago
I like this quote from the article, "It's all about feeling the granularity of prioritization." And this comes close to a good takeaway from what Belsky describes. But I think he is wrong about the repetitive productivity routines being ne
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Seth Roberts on Arithmetic and Butter(kk.org)
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by da5e 16y ago
This is mostly a promo, but this article gives a taste of the book. From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/29/from-geek-to...
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The New Book Unveiled: The 4-Hour Body(fourhourworkweek.com)
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24 Hours on Craigslist(hulu.com)
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by da5e 16y ago
Turn off the computer. Lay the yoga mat out the night before. When reading stop at the first great idea and do some action toward it.
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1997 Royal Navy Field Gun Competition(kottke.org)
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How Tucker Max Got Rejected by Publishing and Still Hit #1 New York Times(fourhourworkweek.com)
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How Double Majors Can Ruin Your Life(calnewport.com)
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The Romantic Scholar: A New Approach to Student Life(calnewport.com)
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The One Best Habit(thetalentcode.com)
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The new Oracle: Bigger and badder than ever (salon.com)
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by da5e 16y ago
Handy phrase, "painstaking practice and ongoing iteration" Cal Newport's guest post is good contrast to the anti-meeting and bias-toward-action viewpoint. I think his points apply to more than academia. Maybe instead of meetings we should b
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by da5e 16y ago
This is a good little article. I liked this quote,"the first step to improving something is to measure it, and it’s corollary, be careful what you measure because that’s what you’ll end up optimizing for." And it's interesting that Kahn use
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by da5e 16y ago
I think a way to avoid the negative calcification of descriptive process documents, would be to have those who use the document as a guide to append their own experiences using the document to that document for future implementers.
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by da5e 16y ago
It's a miracle. A three-way seesaw between ideas, actions and planning.

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