March 2008

What Happened to the “Learning to Play a Song” Series?

A while back I started a series on “Learning to Play a Song.” Those who were following that may have noticed that I haven’t done anything with it for a long, long time. What happened? After doing some brainstorming about what to write about, it quickly became apparent that I had way more content than [...]

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Time to Write: Why You Should Be Unreasonable

Jurgen at Time to Write has written a brief review of Paul Lemberg’s Be Unreasonable that can be found here. Something he wrote really stood out to me: While people believe that systems are the death knell for creativity, the opposite is true. Systemized companies standardize the routine, relieving people’s minds of trying to figure [...]

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Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing for Non-Academics

I had a forehead slap moment last Tuesday when I was proofreading a letter my wife had written to a military officer. She’s doing some research on families of Army National Guardsmen who have deployed, and she needed to write a letter to an officer to keep the research on track. She asked me to [...]

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Question to RSS Subscribers: What enticed you to subscribe to this blog?

I’m at an all time high for RSS readers (don’t laugh at my meager numbers, or do if it makes you smile), and I think that’s probably one of the only measures to determine how well a blog is doing. Some think that traffic is the real way to measure how well your blog is [...]

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Link Travelogue (Volume 1)

Whew! It’s been a busy week of reading and writing. Below I’ve catalogued some of the posts I’ve read this week that either got me thinking about something or made me chortle. Yes, chortle is actually a word. Leo gives 31 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing. While reading his post, it dawned on [...]

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How to Identify and Remove a Financial Leech

Table Of Contents for This Series How To Identify and Remove Real and Emotional Leeches How To Identify and Remove a Productivity Leech How To Identify and Remove a Financial Leech This is part three of a three part series on the Identification and Removal of Leeches. This part covers financial leeches and concludes the [...]

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Is the Internet killing Academia?

Dustin @Lifehack has pointed out that the model for personal productivity that I proposed yesterday seems to be an academic model. While I see where he’s coming from, I think there’s a much larger question to consider: is the Internet and its knowledgeworking minions killing the role of academia? (Introductory Sidebar: I will be using [...]

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Follow-up: Lifehack: Personal Productivity in the 21st Century

I commented (again) on Dustin’s article Personal Productivity in the 21st Century over at Lifehack. His question was regarding whether there is another model for personal productivity systems besides “cranking widgets.” I replied: I think we have a working model and it’s just difficult to quantize. The model I have in mind is something like [...]

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Lifehack: Personal Productivity in the 21st Century

Dustin posted an article about Personal Productivity in the 21st Century over at Lifehack. I was going to comment on it on the blog, but my commentary got a bit long, so I decided a trackback would be better suited. As I blog more and more and try to get more traffic, the “cash value” [...]

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