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A letter to David Hogg: You are better than college
Read more…: A letter to David Hogg: You are better than collegePhoto courtesy of ABC News David, First, I want to extend my sympathy for you and your friends at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS and Parkland. No one should have to go through something like that, let alone be thrown into the public spotlight and questioned and mocked by people who disagree with you. You are a…
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100 Highlights of 2017
Read more…: 100 Highlights of 2017Derek Magill’s 100 Things That Made My Year post inspired me to write one, too. Here are my 100 highlights of 2017:
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A Crystemas Goman
Read more…: A Crystemas GomanA translation of my favorite passage of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to mark my own Christmas Game.
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How I Read and Take Notes
Read more…: How I Read and Take NotesThese are real books on my bookshelf, not a stock photo. I try to take time every day to read. Here is how I go about reading and taking notes on different mediums. Physical books Underline and take bullet point notes as I go through Revisit my underlines and bullet points a few days after finishing…
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The moment you consider a possibility, you are responsible for it. You can choose whether or not you do something about that possibility, but you must own that decision.
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Testing out this Twitter cross-posting bot from http://micro.blog/cagrimmett
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Testing a new post from Micro.blog’s iOS app.
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Scratch your own itch
Read more…: Scratch your own itchThe best projects are ones that build something you want to use or solve a problem you actually have. They don’t need to be big or new. Almost every project starts out as small and a remix of something else. Then you take it and build on it.
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Creating Consistently
Read more…: Creating Consistently“Piece of pie.” — Donatello Creating is awesome. Creating consistently is even better. Here are some strategies for being consistent in your creative endeavors. I’ve spent the last month blogging every day, but this isn’t the first time I’ve regularly put stuff out online. I posted every single day in 2010 and I’ve averaged a post a…
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Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Hudson River
Read more…: Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Hudson River1. The Hudson is a Tidal Estuary Twice a day the waters of the Atlantic rise higher than the levels of the Hudson. At high tide, salt water pushes up the Hudson, raising the water levels. When the tide goes back out, the Hudson switches back to its normal flow direction back out to sea. The…
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Why I Set Personal Deadlines
Read more…: Why I Set Personal DeadlinesWe all understand the importance of setting deadlines at work. Everything revolves around intentionally set deadlines and there are consequences if they aren’t met. Deadlines are a useful tool at work to keep progress moving forward. If there were no deadlines and no consequences for missing them, how many projects would realistically get done? Apply…
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Running Zapier Actions During Business Hours Only
Read more…: Running Zapier Actions During Business Hours OnlyTwo weeks ago I had a problem I wanted to solve with Zapier: Only running a particular Zapier action during business hours and delaying everything that happens outside of business hours until the next day. I tried multiple approaches to make this happen, but each one fell short: Filtering up front for business hours meant…
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Yes, There are Stupid Questions
Read more…: Yes, There are Stupid QuestionsI field a lot of questions. I’m sure you do, too. In a single day I might get asked about technology recommendations, programming syntax, software integrations, business processes, locating files, and how to set up WordPress. I don’t mind answering these questions, and I try to do so quickly and politely. Here’s the kicker: At…
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The Afternoon Check-in
Read more…: The Afternoon Check-inOn 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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How to Hit Reset and Keep Going
Read more…: How to Hit Reset and Keep GoingWe’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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My Setup and Tools
Read more…: My Setup and ToolsI 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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The Great American Road Trip
Read more…: The Great American Road TripI 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.
Read more…: 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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How to Back Up Your Online Life
Read more…: How to Back Up Your Online LifeYour stuff in the cloud could disappear at any time. Here is how to download a copy of your data from popular online services. Do you use Gmail? WordPress.com? Fitbit? Facebook? How about Twitter? Your account could be shut down and you could lose all of your stuff there at any time. This Dennis Cooper…