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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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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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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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