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Yes, There are Stupid Questions
You should never ask someone else a question without first attempting to answer it on your own.
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Get the Most out of Your Kindle with These 4 Tools
Take screenshots, get reading statistics, export your highlights, and remove the ads from your Kindle 1. Screenshots Did you know that you can take screenshots on most recent Kindles? This is useful for quickly sharing a passage, showing an editor or developer a display issue, and sharing tips in an article like this one. To take…
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Taking a Day Trip to Joshua Tree from LA
Photo courtesy of the National Park Service Are you visiting LA for a few days and want to get out to see Joshua Tree? Taking a day trip from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree National Park is completely doable as long as you plan ahead. Here is what you need to know. What you’ll need A full…
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My WordPress Stack
Here are the tools, hosts, themes, and plugins I use to build WordPress sites quickly and get the most out of them after they launch.
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The Afternoon Check-in
On January 5, I started using Exist.io to rate each day from 1–5 and jot down a few notes about the day. The scale is pretty simple: 1: Terrible 2: Bad 3: Okay 4: Good 5: Perfect At the end of the month I looked back at the data I collected and I was a…
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The Afternoon Check-in
Two and a half months ago I started asking myself two simple questions every afternoon and I’ve seen a clear improvement in my mood as a direct result. Don’t take your mood as a given. You are in control and can take actions to improve it.
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How to Hit Reset and Keep Going
We’ve all been there: It is 4:30pm, our energy is low, we have at least four hours of work left to do, and we feel like giving up and taking a nap. In that moment, we must make a critical decision: Do we keep going and get our work done or throw in the towel,…
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How to Hit Reset and Keep Going
We’ve all been there: It is 4:30pm, our energy is low, we have at least four hours of work left to do, and we feel like giving up and taking a nap. Here is what I do to hit reset and keep going.
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My Setup and Tools
I often get asked about what I use to get my work done. This post will be updated regularly with my current toolkit and setup.
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Adding Full Width Front Page Widgets to Genesis Themes
Most Genesis themes don’t allow content to go edge-to-edge out of the box. Here’s how to add a new full width widget area to your Genesis theme.
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Moving your Jekyll Site to Amazon S3 and Cloudfront with Outside DNS
Are you moving your Jekyll site from shared hosting over to S3 and Cloudfront while using your own DNS? Here is what you need to do.
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3 Lesser-Known Hubspot Tools
Do you use Hubspot? Here are three lesser-known Hubspot tools to help you get the most out of your marketing and sales workflows.
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At Praxis, Commitments Are Better Than Rules
Commitments are a key part of our program. Praxis is not the kind of product that can simply be purchased and sat on a shelf.
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LER on Light
There is but one cure for ignorance: enlightenment! Lesser treatments, such as ‘selling the masses,’ political activism, and the like, are an utter waste of time; as well try to bring daylight by cursing the darkness!” (To Free or Freeze, p. 18)
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The Great American Road Trip
I got the chance to spend a week driving from coast to coast with my parents last summer. We started just north of Seattle, took Route 2 across Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, then went across the UP and drove down through Michigan, then across Ohio and Pennsylvania on I-80 to NYC.…
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The Great American Road Trip
I got the chance to spend a week driving from coast to coast with my parents last summer. We started just north of Seattle, took Route 2 across Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, then went across the UP and drove down through Michigan, then across Ohio and Pennsylvania on I-80 to NYC.…
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Do More. Improve on it. Repeat.
Do you want to be on top in your field? The bar is lower than you think, but few people even attempt to jump it. They will talk about jumping over it, but when it comes time for them to make the leap, they step back. You don’t have to be smarter than your peers,…
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Do More. Improve on it. Repeat.
Do you want to be on top in your field? The bar is lower than you think, but few people even attempt to jump it.
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How to Serve Static Website Assets from Amazon S3
Earlier this week I looked at my web hosting’s usage stats and decided that I needed to move a bunch of static assets (mostly PDFs) somewhere else because they were eating my available bandwidth. A bunch of hot links around the web caused some usage spikes. I’m a firm believer in learning by doing, so…
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Book Review Jekyll Collection Template
A book review template for Jekyll sites using Collections. Complete with a star rating system.