11 Applications for your new Mac
After six years, I got to setup a new Mac. Having never done a format of the previous Mac and deciding not to migrate its installation, I found…
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Tracking reading: Goodreads to Beeminder
If you're into quantified self (e.g. digitally tracking your work, health, habits, whatever) you might have heard of Beeminder, which works as commitment device for following up on…
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Solving procrastination: I read this book so that you don't have to
Just finished Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change, by Timothy A. Pychyl. Dr Pychyl leads the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University (Ottawa,…
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Tracking writing goals: Scrivener + Dropbox + Beeminder
I’ve been tempted to try out Beeminder's URLminder integration after their most recent blog post, and for added procrastinating fun time, I went out looking to make this…
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How to take a Multiple Intelligences assessment test
It's quite easy actually, just answer this online list of questions :) Dr. Howard Gardner, a professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education,…
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Be positive to be healthy to be positive
Positive emotions, positive social connections, and physical health influence one another in a self-sustaining upward-spiral dynamic. From a 2013 paper: The mechanisms underlying the association between positive emotions…
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A RescueTime alternative, Memory from Timely
There are plenty of software approaches to tracking who one spents time for billing and productivity (or just plain personal improvement) reasons. Memory is a new app from…
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How to make your job easier
Copying from the Productive Living Newsletter by Get Things Done author, David Allen Get your life back to widget-cranking! Oh, for a widget-cranking job again! Ever have gigs…
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My first 2017 resolution: do this "8,760 Hours" thing
If you're looking for a practical guide to do a "data dump" of your thoughts, wants and future planning, try out the 8,760 Hours: How to get the…
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How to be like Zorba
Some food for thought: Despite continual romantic, financial, and familial disasters, he says, “Zorba can dance in the present moment, because he knows that stress— the full catastrophe—…
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