April 2011
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Am I Part of the Problem?
Does this look like a face that ever does anything wrong?
I should be getting ready for an event, but I had a critical thought the other day that I haven’t been able to put aside. Here it goes.
I write for a real estate analytics firm who uses real estate data to create software solutions for nearly every part of the market. They’re more or less the Amazon of the business, and I...
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“The best analogy is in the South, a lot of people go to church on Sunday,” says...”
– Mashable
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“I remember walking home one afternoon from the office on the phone with Mark...”
– Fred Wilson
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Propose Times, Force Action
A few years ago, I was networking for new work prospects. During which, I approached a friend for some contacts and told him that I was having trouble.
I jokingly called this friend the “master networker”, because he was always going out to lunch, coffee, dinner or drinks with someone. He’s a tech entrepreneur who was on his third or fourth venture at the time and long ago...
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Finding Signal and Making Changes
So this is what Kezar Stadium looks like at 6:30am…Notice the pack of ladies already after it.
Most lifehacking experts say that establishing a routine is paramount to productivity. But sometimes things get a little dull. Stick with one routine too long, and you inevitably get bored. And more importantly, you stop seeing gains. Whether it’s fitness, design, writing, or whatever, it’s...
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AWS is down: Why the sky is falling →
This pretty much explains why Self Edge went down today. Click on if you’re feeling especially dorky.
The gist: Kiya hosts on Amazon’s EC2, which up ‘til now has been more or less flawless. However, as this post shows, when things went wrong, they went horribly wrong. They shouldn’t have, but it appears now that Amazon isn’t being entirely truthful about...
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Having Fun
Some of us are prone to staying up late *cough* to pursue some all-encompassing goal or fit of passion. It’s an invigorating feeling, the pursuit of something you enjoy and want so badly to materialize. Duty just doesn’t cut it. There has to be something else there. And, since most of us aren’t ibankers, there must be at least a twinge of fun. Yes, fun. Or excitement, or some...
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Every Man Should Own...
A pair of yellow deadstock boots in size 11EEE that you bought from eBay for $25…
A green canvas field jacket laid neatly upon a log in the morning light…
A stack of 21oz. denim set neatly upon a desk…
A kitten named “Scrappy”…
A magic mouse laid upon a Momotaro mousepad…
A warship from Portland, Maine sitting idle in the San Francisco...
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Manufacturing Opportunity
No training, but shooting anyways
There is more opportunity in the world than we care to realize. It’s there eagerly waiting for us to grab it, beckoning us between life-sucking conference calls and endless email strings. We just don’t want to see it.
Why? Because it exists in our frustrations. Or, to put it simply, your opportunity is the stuff no one wants to do.
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“The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership; it takes...”
– Derek Sivers, How to Start a Movement (via TED)
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WatchMy friends are really grabbing the bull by the horns at Coachella…
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“For those determined to succeed in the getting of money, earning a living...”
– Felix Dennis, The Narrow Road
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Waking Up Early...
Thanks to my lovely girlfriend waking me up at 5:30am, I’ve already accomplished so much by the crack of 8am, including:
- Cleaning my room
- Doing the dishes
- Washing a load of laundry
- Cooking a badass breakfast
- Revising a draft
- Twittering
- Showering and getting dressed
- Processing a couple of photos
I’m normally horrendous at waking up early, but lately I’ve...
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WatchI present to you: Vibram skiing
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