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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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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

Sale Ends At 11:59pm Tonight! There’s still time to get in on the love, and have us solve your technology problems! Get 20% off all of our technology coaching packages for you or a friend. Today – December 1st – marks the one-year anniversary of my leaving Russia for the US. It feels like it’s [...]

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Vlog – How To Be More Successful Than Microsoft (hint: Make it easy for people to give you money.)

November 30, 2009

Our Black Friday Sale Ends December 1 at Midnight! There’s still time to get in on the love, and have us solve your technology problems! Get 20% off all of our technology coaching packages. Today’s Vlog is brought to you by two crappy buying experiences I had over this holiday weekend: Summary For The Video [...]

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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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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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