Table of Contents for This Series How to Identify and Remove Real and Emotional Leeches How to Identify and Remove Productivity Leeches How to Identify and Remove Financial Leeches This is part […]
Flight of the Conchords: Think about it.
I won’t make it a habit of hoisting what I find funny on you all too much, but if you’ve never seen or heard of Flight of the Conchords, you have to […]
About page revised!
Update: This post originally said “contact page revised.” It should have been “about.” Sorry for the confusion. I’ve just redone my about page. It’s been lame for a long, long time, and […]
How to Identify and Remove the 4 Different Types of Leeches
Table of Contents for This Series How to Identify and Remove Real and Emotional Leeches How to Identify and Remove Productivity Leeches How to Identify and Remove Financial Leeches The thought of […]
The 3 Key Ideas from Aristotle That Will Help You Flourish
What does it mean to be happy and to live a good life? How do we focus on what matters and live up to our own potential? Why do some people succeed […]
Is It Worth Keeping All of These Stupid Boxes?
One of my projects got stalled Tuesday, so while I was waiting on the reviewers to get back to me (turned out they never did and I could have been done much […]
How to Lead People for Results – Lifehack.org
Joel over at Lifehack gives a bit longer survey of good leadership traits. It seemed to me that he hit all of the major points I talked about in yesterday’s post, sans […]
What Type of Boss Do You Have?
Throughout my military career, I’ve run into many different kinds of leaders. It’s hard to really specify what exactly makes a good leader, but I have a very quick saying that helps […]
7 Things We Fight That Make Life Harder
Yesterday, Angela and I went ice skating. Being poor and from the South, I never learned to ice skate as a kid, and this was something like the third time I’ve been. […]
Thank You Commenters and Readers
Some bloggers spend a long time writing into the void when they first get their site up and going. They forget that people aren’t searching for them; rather, they’re searching for content. […]
Lifehack, The Power of Rituals, and Flourishing
Scott over at Lifehack recently wrote about the rituals and how they help maximize time. There are two rituals that I think are especially important: waking up and working. The Wake Up […]
Three Reasons Why I Like Pandora
I was stumbling recently and came across Pandora, a website that streams free music and analyzes, groups, and sorts the music based upon the song’s attributes. I absolutely love it. Here’s why: […]
10 Tips to Help You Fail at Monetizing Your Blog
[Abstract: This post provides tips to help you fail at monetizing your blog. It could also be seen as a list of things for you not to do if you want to […]
Picking the Song You Want to Learn to Play
[Abstract: This post continues the “Learning to Play a Song Series.” It discusses three different things to consider when picking your first song to play.] So, you’ve picked what instrument you want […]
A Somewhat New Look at APPD
[Abstract: This brief post discusses some of the changes to this blog.] After several hours of tinkering with CSS code and trying to figure out where my titles went, I have completed […]
The Three Different Types of Digital Residents
(Abstract: This post discusses the three different types of digital residents and how the way we orient ourselves to the digital world has a dramatic impact on how we interact with each […]
On the Uncertainty of Life
The other night a student asked me, “don’t you ever get tired of dealing with stuff that doesn’t have answers?” This question deserves some consideration. The first thing you might think is […]
Buying and Choosing an Instrument
In his latest post on Ground Hog Day Resolutions, Dave wrote: “Personally, there are some personal creative goals I’d like to pursue: Play an instrument / Play one song well Compose a […]