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Digital Productivity Rules
Digital Productivity Rule #1: Some nerd already wanted to do it and made a tool for it — find it.— George Coghill (@gcoghill) February 25, 2010 Digital Productivity rule #2: If you do it more than 5...
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Why Is It So Difficult to Find Out Who Created a Digital File?
Image, audio and video files on the internet need a more robust metadata system that is supported by web browsers and digital media players. It’s ridiculous that the files themselves can’t tell a web...
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Instagram Is Not A Photography App, It’s A Photographer App
As silly as this sounds, I’ve had trouble wrapping my head around Instagram. I think I’ve finally figured it out. At first glance, it seems like a photo sharing app. But if it were, it would be the...
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Pursuing Passion
This post by David Seah brings up some interesting thoughts on the concept of pursuing your passions. He questions if he’s actually found his passion, and if so, why is it not flowing naturally? Seah...
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Twitter: Offer To @ Reply The Author When I Tweet A Link To Their Website
If I am using the official Twitter software, or the official Twitter extensions in my browser, or using the Twitter website to generate a new tweet, it would be a handy feature for everybody involved...
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Internet Mentions: @ Replies for Web Pages
Twitter’s “mentions” system using the “@ reply” is super handy. Webpages should have them. When someone links to your page, you get a notification. By email. Or use the web browser notification system....
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The Zen of Tiny Screws
The philosopher Alan Watts brought to my attention the idea that Zen koans (“koan” being translated as “case study”) were originally intended to be created anew, not recycled. The classic “What is the...
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15-Minute Stoicism (or, How To Outsmart That Jerk In The Future & Improve...
Establishing new healthy habits — or breaking existing bad habits — is more difficult than you think because your brain seems to actually think of your future self as another person. Ignoring your...
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An Artist Is A Process
I have suffered for some time under the illusion that “being an artist” was a goal. A thing. An identity. It’s not. An artist is a byproduct of the process of creating art. There is no such thing as...
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How Much “Me” Is Actually There?
Here’s the mistake we make when we listen to the voice of self-loathing: We misperceive a force that is universal and impersonal and instead see it as individual and personal. That voice in our heads...
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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Self-Improvement Tip
I recently finished reading the excellent book The Willpower Instinct, and the author brings up the concept that we perceive our future self as a stranger. This makes it tough to stick to...
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Premortem
The “Premortem” seems to be eerily similar to the unnamed idea I put forth in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Self-Improvement Tip (aka ‘Servant of My Future Self’): Pretending that a success or failure has...
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Misdirected Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is a strange thing. I never really paid much attention to it in the past — when it came, when it was gone. I always assumed enthusiasm was attached to specific projects, tasks and goals,...
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How Bigfoot Helped Me Overcome Procrastination, Perfectionism & Resistance
Steven Pressfield’s book “The War of Art” is a psychological Rosetta Stone for the unmotivated artist. It reveals to you why, how — and most importantly — that you are not alone in the struggle. Far...
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The Inertial Mind
One insight I’ve had lately regarding meditation sits (and other habits in general) is how often I’m not so motivated to sit, but once I do I find myself quickly getting into the mood, and then I do...
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The Key To Success
Success is the freedom from identification with failure. Freedom from identification with failure requires freedom from identification with success.Filed under: Thoughts Tagged: failure, success,...
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Fantasy As Control
Fantasy has a connotation of something pleasurable or desirable. But to the perfectionist, control is pleasurable and desirable. The perfectionist has externalized their ego — they have identified with...
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Perfectionism, Procrastination, the Fixed vs. Growth Mindset & Mastery
Regular readers know that I am am a huge fan of Stephen Pressfield’s ‘artist user manual’ book “The War of Art”. A central focus of the book is the concept that Pressfield names “Resistance”, and it...
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Psychological Stone Soup: A Recipe for Self-Development
When I get someone’s ear long enough to get up on a small soapbox and suggest an entry to the path of self-development, I always point to making the bed and washing the dishes. These habits are all...
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Indifference Guru
One of the demons I’ve had to repeatedly face along my path of creating and sharing my artwork on a daily basis has the indifference to which the creations are received. I know that far more followers...
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