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protecting your turf

May 16, 2007

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From the truly excellent The Big Bing: Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe by Stanley Bing. The publisher is gonna kill me for putting any of this on the web, I know, but I picked up this book a couple of weeks ago in […]

wikipower!

May 14, 2007

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We’ve finally gotten our wiki up and running, although we haven’t stocked the pond yet. We’ll be adding in the resources and tips that you’ve posted over the next week or so, so you don’t have to go back and do it twice. Right now, we have our Home page, our Fitness page, our Personal […]

the self challenge

May 11, 2007

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Some time back I referred to this Challenge, and it’s high time I elaborated on my remarks there. The Self Challenge, run by Self magazine, is a three-month program designed for fitness beginners or those coming back from a significant layoff and who want to improve their physical condition. It’s covered in the magazine extensively, […]

you are NOT invisible

May 8, 2007

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More momo, y’all. This 24-minute sit-down may be his most powerful video yet. In it, he talks with Joanne, the woman in crisis who wrote to him (we read that letter in the last video), and helps her understand how she’s been essentially oppressing herself. Because she’s a caring, helping person, she makes herself transparent rather than […]

what’s Mom worth?

May 7, 2007

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Stolen from Guy Kawasaki (welcome to the blogroll, Guy) who stole it from Reuters, who stole it from Salary.com, here’s a nifty little calculator to determine how much a mother’s work is actually worth, if you were hiring people to do all of that instead. Sure, it’s timed to make news just before Mother’s Day, […]

everybody’s free (to wear sunscreen)

May 4, 2007

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This is possibly the best address to a graduating class in history, and maybe one of the best speeches, period. It originally appeared as a Mary Schmich column in the Chicago Tribune called Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young. This dazzling video is what adding a little Baz Luhrman to that text […]

send a postcard

May 1, 2007

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sulz over at bloggerdygook has had a genius idea to brighten otherwise ordinary hour slogging through your mailbox. You know what I’m talking about; you put off dealing with the mail because you just know there will be nothing there but bills, newsletters from realtors, spam, and maybe something from your cousin telling you it’s […]