Archive for March, 2008

links for 2008-03-31

Monday, March 31st, 2008

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Hivelogic: Offices and The Creativity Zone
A good post about offices, workspaces and work environments and how they help or hinder getting into the creativity “zone”.
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The Great Liberation Experiment

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.- Malcolm X

 
A key component to The 4-Hour Workweek lifestyle is liberation from the office. The main idea is that once you are working remotely, you are not beholden to the clock but rather to […]

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6 Tips For Using Your Calendar Effectively

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.-Marilyn Monroe

 
Here are some great tips that I have learned using my calendar for scheduling appointments and events. Since I have only ever used an electronic calendar (first Outlook, then Google Calendar and most recently the Lightning extension for Thunderbird), these tips cater somewhat to these types […]

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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

I bring you the second instalment of the Life Sutra Motivational Speech Series. Actually it is the first official instalment, however I would like to consider Randy Pausch’s Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams speech in my The Other Lecture post to be the unofficial first instalment. Today’s motivational speech was given by Apple CEO Steve […]

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GTD vs. The 4-Hour Workweek

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Clay Collins has a new post titled Productivity Guru SMACKDOWN: Tim Ferriss v. Dave Allen at his excellent blog The Growing Life. It immediately appealed to me having read both Getting Things Done (GTD) and The 4-Hour Workweek. Before I get into this, I have to mention that Clay is a great writer! This is […]

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Printable High Intensity Training Log

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

A few days ago, I described a high intensity workout that forms part of my own Geek to Freak program. This program is based loosely on Timothy Ferriss’ famous blog post From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks. Part of this program involves recording every workout in detail, […]

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links for 2008-03-18

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Light Beers
A good article on the difference in calories and carbohydate content between regular and light beer. The authors suggest that the loss of taste and body is not worth the minimal “gain” achieved when switching to light beer in terms of calorie and carbohyd
(tags: beer diet carbohydrates)

The Best Places to Watch Documentary Movies Online
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High Intensity Workout

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

One claim made by Timothy Ferriss in his blog post From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks seems rather incredible. Given my new daily schedule, I decided a week ago that I would devote my scheduled workout time to testing the ideas in Tim’s post. After all, who […]

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links for 2008-03-13

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Lifehacker The Book: Download Sample Excerpts of Upgrade Your Life
Free excerpt from the new, updated Lifehacker book: Chapter 1, Control Your Email.
(tags: productivity Lifehacker)

Micro Persuasion: The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites
Interesting post on how the web is migrating towards services over sites. We are seeing this play out today as more and more […]

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The 4-Hour Workweek Hype Cycle

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Gartner uses the Hype Cycle to describe how the hype regarding a new technology is often followed by a period of disappointment and subsequently by a period of more modest practical benefits:
 
Source: Jeremy Kemp / Wikipedia.
If we also consider management fads and personal productivity movements as technologies, I think one would find that the […]

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