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Getting Things Done in social media.

Getting Things Done is an amazing book, and the GTD methodology is very intuitive. It’s based on the idea that externalizing your memory – move tasks out of your head, and record them somewhere else –...

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The Point of Convergence

I read a number of great books last year. Four of my favourites are Crossing the Chasm, Good to Great, The E-Myth Revisited, and Tribal Leadership. Each one of these books presents a different scale,...

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What colour is my parachute?

I’m reading the latest edition of What Color Is Your Parachute?, doing the exercises, making an inventory of myself… all that good jazz. (Tip: It’s less than $20 on Amazon. Go buy it!) The choice of...

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As the Wheel of Time turns.

Along with abandoning WordPress development for the greener pasture of straightforward theme customization, one of my other 2013 resolutions is to read 52 books in 52 weeks. For any interested parties...

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Great things come from giving.

Cover via Amazon A couple weeks ago, I was asked why I run meetups. Am I getting compensated? Is there money in it for me? Or is it good old fashioned altruism? Truth is, it’s none of those things. I...

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Aes Sedai = Fairy Godmothers.

I’ve been on a Wheel of Time binge for the last year, give or take a couple of months. Currently finishing up Winter’s Heart (blew threw the last few pages of Path of Daggers a week or two ago) and...

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Keep reading.

“I was living in Boston, working for a startup during the summer, living in my fraternity house. But every weekend, I would take this folding chair up to the roof with all these books I got on Amazon....

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The new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory cover.

“Next month, Penguin U.K. will issue a fiftieth-anniversary edition of Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” under its Modern Classics imprint, with a cover design that is strangely but...

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Suffering is essential.

“No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and...

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