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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Student Brings Typewriter to Class – Gets Discriminated

Posted by on Dec 15, 2009 in Life Hacks, Technology | View Comments

This is some typewriter hating right here. Of course he could have always downloaded this to his...

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Beware of Multitaskers Who Work on Rewards

Posted by on Aug 27, 2009 in Business, Technology | View Comments

Great TED Talk by Dan Pink on how rewards do not make a great motivation tool. There’s tons of research from decades worth of studies that have proved this, yet the system still continues as normal. There’s a mismatch between what science knows and what business does. He also touches on Results Only Work Environments (ROWE), which I’m a big fan of and that idea was part of what...

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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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Make Your Own Digital Dog Tag [Travel Hack]

Posted by on Mar 6, 2009 in Life Hacks, Technology, Travel | View Comments

Make Your Own Digital Dog Tag [Travel Hack]

I have Crohn’s Disease. I’ve been hospitalized twice in two different cities that are not where I’m living, so tracking down my medical records has always been an issue. I’m on the right medication now, and I haven’t had any issues for over a year, but the lack of warning symptoms always worries me that I could have a flare up any time, any place. So far Haiti I...

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Outsourcing Part 2

Posted by on Feb 12, 2009 in Business, Technology | View Comments

A while back I had written about how I gave up on transcribing the documentary footage myself and turned to Elance to outsource the task. The terms were for $100 they would transcribe 15 hours of footage over 2 business days. Well let’s just say you get what you pay for. It ended up taking about a month for everything to be completed. Now normally that would be unacceptably long, but I was...

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