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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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Eleven Months in Review – 2009 in the rearview mirror

December 1, 2009

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Vlog – How And When To Ask For Help… And Why We Don’t.

November 24, 2009

Welcome, dear friends, to my first ever Vlog post! This one is 8 minutes long. The volume is a little soft – but the next one will definitely be better. See it here: Summary for the non-video-watchers: In our society, we’re often told to “cowboy through” things. To be independent. People who ask for help [...]

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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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Giving Up

November 10, 2009

I’m working on a review of Google Wave to be released tomorrow – so do send me your questions or leave them in the comments, if you have any. The review was slated to come out today, but a more important topic got me thinking this morning. Here’s how it started: Charlie Gilkey and I [...]

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Puppet Shows and Overnight Success

November 3, 2009

I don’t usually listen to people’s conversations while I’m on the subway. Two men stood by the door talking. The younger guy – obviously upset by a conversation he’d been having with an artist friend of his – was complaining loudly about some success or other that the arrogant SOB had had. The older guy [...]

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