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being who you are

SELF Help: The Only Kind There Is

February 17, 2010

I get sick when I hear the phrase “Take care of yourself so that you can better help others!” It is such utter bunk and BS that my stomach turns. Excuse me while I down the ipecac. It’s not about helping or taking care of others. With the exception of your children, to whom you [...]

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Making It Look Easy

January 19, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about people who try to make it look easy. Whatever “it” is. Making difficult things look easy is a cultural obsession. The entire profession of advertising is built around it. And, depressingly, the trend continues online. There are so many info products out there promising “10 easy ways to [...]

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The List Is Life (or: Ma’am, step AWAY from the To Do List.)

January 14, 2010

I have a To Do List. Had a To Do List. Unlike many, mine was not actually written on a stark page titled To Do with numbers and lines and arrows. Not for me the paper prison. My To Dos were scattered on tiny purple post-its, in mental notes and calculations, in tweets, and in [...]

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MacSpeech Dictate, Humanity in Product Reviews, and Doing Your Best Work

December 7, 2009

Text Summary for the Video Impaired: Last Tuesday I made a video post that promised a “slaughter fest” review of a piece of software called MacSpeech Dictate. The software is pretty bad – but I think that promising to spend 800 words telling every particular where the software fell short (there was only one redeeming [...]

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You ARE What You Do. (Repeatedly.)

November 23, 2009

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle We’re told so often by gurus of various types to decouple our beings from our workaday actions. “You are not-” they say emphatically, “what you do.” Bull. Admittedly, most of these gurus mean to stop us pigeonholing ourselves [...]

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How And Why To Dance Around In Your Socks

November 17, 2009

I woke up this morning and wanted to go back to bed. Usually I can get by with 7 hours of sleep. Apparently not today. So I did what I normally do, and set my alarm clock back a half hour. Still not enough. Another? Still no. I slept 1.5 hours extra, in 1/2 hour [...]

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“Serial Entrepreneurship” And Being Who You Really Are

November 16, 2009

I wince whenever I hear or read someone calling themselves a “serial entrepreneur.” To me, the whole concept of “serial entrepreneurship” (and yes, I’m going to keep putting it in scare quotes) is unreal and screwed up. Put on someone’s website, it telegraphs un-trustworthiness and – frankly – skeeviness. I don’t want to do business [...]

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