Gadgets and Distractions – NY Times Article

Posted by on Jun 7, 2010 in Personal Explorations, Technology | View Comments

Gadgets and Distractions – NY Times Article

Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price I was reading the New York Times on my iPad at breakfast this morning when I saw the above photo and died laughing. The article is really interesting and talks about our addiction to gadgets causing problems with our ability to focus, which then hurts deep thought and creativity – a lot of the stuff covered in You 2.0. They even cite a UC...

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Typewriter: Minimal Text Editor [Freeware]

Posted by on May 18, 2009 in Office Hacks, Personal Explorations, Software, Technology | View Comments

Typewriter: Minimal Text Editor [Freeware]

Writing on a manual [typewriter] makes you slower in a good way, I think. You don’t revise as much, you just think more, because you know you’re going to have to retype the entire fucking thing. Which is a big stop on just slapping anything down and playing with it. - Will Self Reading the title you can probably guess what this program can do, or more what it can’t do. The above...

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I’m Going to Haiti

Posted by on Mar 3, 2009 in Personal Explorations, Travel | View Comments

I’m Going to Haiti

Yep, this Saturday I’m flying from Ft. Lauderdale to Port-au-Prince, and I’ll be there for about 5 days. I only found out about this last week. I was at a meeting for a service group I’m in, when someone I’ve talked to maybe once before started telling me about how he wants to build a clinic in Haiti and film a documentary about it, but doesn’t know the first thing...

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Cafe – No Internet Weekends

Posted by on Feb 23, 2009 in Personal Explorations | View Comments

Cafe – No Internet Weekends

I was at one of the nearby cafes last Friday where I noticed this sign. “Internet-Free Zone on Weekends.” I wonder if this is to encourage people to read or socialize on the weekends. Or maybe something more practical, such as not having students hog a table for the whole day. Either way I thought it was interesting and I haven’t seen it anywhere...

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Ventures in Outsourcing

Posted by on Oct 15, 2008 in Personal Explorations | View Comments

Practicing what I’m documenting, I’ve hired my first freelancer and outsourced a tedious task that’s been a huge time suck – transcribing the documentary footage. I had briefly done some browsing on Elance for transcription services and it all seemed pretty prohibitive – about $15-$25 an hour, which for 20 hours and counting gets pretty pricey. I made it through 3...

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Life Imitates Art…I Wish

Posted by on Sep 21, 2008 in Personal Explorations | View Comments

Life Imitates Art…I Wish

It’s extremely ironic how I’m making a documentary on being organized and productive while lately life has been going 160 MPH and I’m just trying to hold on. This has been about the most disorganized I’ve been in a long time. My room looks like one of the bazillion hurricanes hit it, I still have 80 unanswered emails and about twice that I need to send. Plus, you know, I...

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