Author Archive

• Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek
  Hilarious!
  (tags: productivity books gtd)

Popularity: 81% [?]

• YoureAPoorLoser.com
  Finally, a program geared to us dumb guys teaching us how to make millions online! I want to become a money magnet. I want my own abundance video!
  (tags: marketing)

Popularity: 14% [?]

• BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter
  BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want. The point system itself is a great idea and ensures fairness in distributing shipping costs - an idea that other community sites could leverage.
  (tags: books exchange free)
• Urgency is poisonous
  Some great commentary on the danger of self imposed deadlines and anything supposedly "urgent". This post follows up on their "Four Day Work Week Experiment", which is also well worth reading.
  (tags: productivity lifehacks)

Popularity: 12% [?]

• Sleepy Dog Labs - Bathtub Cleaning Drill Brush
  If it's worth doing, it's worth doing with power tools! Sometimes the most obvious hacks elude me, and this is a case in point. Why am I doing the scrubbing?
  (tags: cleaning lifehacks tools)

Popularity: 10% [?]

• Seth's Blog: Why downloading Firefox is like getting into college
  Another great insight by Seth Godin: Firefox users and more empowered than others. Visitors to your website who use Firefox should potentially be treated differently than everyone else.
  (tags: firefox marketing blogging)
• Guest Shortlist: Randy Pausch - Borders - Books, Music and Movies
  Randy Pausch, of the famous "Last Lecture", provides 5 of his picks to read, watch and listen to.
  (tags: toread picks)

Popularity: 8% [?]

• Twitter Tools, Tweaks and Theories: TypePad Hacks
  My apprehensive fascination with twitter continues... This post is a pretty good compilation of various uses for twitter and a nice, seemingly comprehensive list of twitter apps. The best thing about this link is that I was alerted to it by someone I am f
  (tags: twitter)

Popularity: 9% [?]

• 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".
  (tags: productivity office workspace)
• ConverStations: Twitter + Yahoo Pipes = Signal
  A rather cool use of Yahoo! pipes to filter and publish data from twitter.
  (tags: twitter pipes socialnetworking)

Popularity: 10% [?]

• 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
  I admit I am a documentary junkie. This points to a pretty good set of online sources for documentaries. So much for an information diet!
  (tags: documentaries videos)

Popularity: 10% [?]

• 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 web brands offer API's.
  (tags: web3.0 webservices api)
• Feature: The Best of Lifehacker in Upgrade Your Life
  This is the table of contents for the second edition of the Lifehacker book. What's nice is that they provide links to related posts on their website. A nice organized list of email, organization, getting things done and computer tips all in one place.
  (tags: productivity Lifehacker howto)

Popularity: 9% [?]