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30 Hours, 30 Days: Getting More Done by Focusing on Less Today (Thursday) @ 7pm ET Dial-in Number: 1-712-432-2323 Access Code: 552451 Here’s the PDF: http://andywibbels.com/files/30h30d.pdf

Brownfemipower guest blogs on Zuky and uncovers some assumptions white bloggers make about minority bloggers. #9 is my favorite. 1. Bloggers of color means “black”. 2. Bloggers of color are poor. 3. Bloggers of color hold mostly menial labor jobs (hence the lack of time or willingness to do something “educated” like blog). 4. Bloggers […]

Priscilla has put together a list of her favorite Personal Development blogs. Glad to be on the list.

It is easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of tasks and to-do’s in the coming month. I’ve been experimenting with limiting my commitments to 30 hours in the coming 30 days. Not 30 projects, not 30 quick to-do’s but 30 one-hour tasks. Here’s how to do it: Step 1: Realize there’s always time […]

IMed with a colleague yesterday who is at a business retreat. They had to detail their business ideas to the facilitator and one idea that my buddy was not hugely hot on caused the facilitator to say ‘OH MY GOD THAT IS GREAT YOU HAVE TO DO THAT!’ I am always suspicious of large groups […]

In the middle of reading Jonathan Black’s Yes You Can: Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz and my favorite nugget so far: Dejected, he threw the manuscript into the garbage and ordered his wife to leave it there. She did – and carried the wastebasket to yet another publisher, who had it […]

I want one of these bad boys. That or a SEKS-SEE Fujitsu Lifebook. Of a VAIO Stats: The Eee PC is running a version of Intel’s 910 mobile chipset, it uses a 900MHz Intel Dothan based Pentium M CPU, it has 512MB of DDR2 memory, full 802.11g wireless capability, and a flash-based hard drive. There […]

A discussion on Metafilter about an article in Wired about the quality assurance and user testing for the upcoming Halo sequel, Halo 3 leads to some great insights from a QA tester from the Marathon: Durandal game team: Shooting shotguns and rocket launchers is fun, and you can’t have any fun if you’re running away […]

Or maybe just so far. Granted it is a German product so it wouldn’t carry nearly the cultural/historical baggage it would if rolled out in the USA: An MP3 player in the i.Beat series called i.Beat blaxx nice. (via Metafilter and Engadget and Fake Steve Jobs)

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