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Creating Value
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Medium’s Rise
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How to Handle a Dip in Creativity and Productivity
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Idea Expansion Format (IEF)
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Great Leaders Make People Feel Safe
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The Golden Circle
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Seeing Education Differently
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The Answer to Peak Content is High-quality Curation
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Brainstorming Questions Instead of Answers
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The Relationship Between Relaxation, Fun, and Success
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Algorithmic Learning
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Concise, Transparent Communication as the Primary Metric of Competency
Two of his biggest ideas were about how space and time work. This thing you’re…
Learning is an Integration Problem
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Powering Innovation With Inputs
In my own life, I found that whenever I wasn’t sure what to do next, I would…
Jack of All Trades, Master of Some
In the modern world, where a very common job might require someone to be a social-media…
How Science Will Help us Optimize Everything Through AI Curation
The interviewers detected lies less accurately among those with a full bladder.…
Ready Player One
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A New Approach to Television
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Project vs. Company
The best companies start out with ideas that don’t sound very good. They start…
Do You Have to Re-read to Retain Books?
“When we read a book for the first time,” Nabokov complains, “the very process…
Stop Being Proud of Complexity
The main virtue of an architect is the ability to reduce complexity. Thus, a good…
Possible Outcomes for Jon Snow After Book/Season 5 [SPOILERS]
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Give Talks on More Than Just Your Job
I’ve come to see public speaking as a vital part of a thriving life, but…
My Favorite Book on Writing
I have a project where I parse the books I read and then summarize them for myself…
I’m Hiring a Part-time Researcher
I am hiring a part-time researcher to work on a project for me. The project is…
Better Superlatives
The thing I dislike most about Apple is their overuse of the word, “amazing”.…
Auto-Optimizing Images Using Folder Actions
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GTD and Offloading
A study was just released that talks about the benefits of storing or saving information…
The Wisdom Genome
I have many projects that I work on captured here on the site. Between the /projects…
The 4 Levels of Photographic Realism
I’ve often been fascinated by good photographic images that could have existed…
Put Your Content on Your Own Website
I just read a decent post by some guy about travel. It was pretty good. It was…
Changing my Approach to Blogging
I think I’m about to change a great deal about how I manage this site’s…
How to Redirect Archives to Pages in WordPress
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The Difference Between Organic and Direct Web Traffic
If you host any type of website you’ve probably heard the terms “organic”…
The Difference Between Analogy, Metaphor, and Simile
Many people confuse analogies, similes, and metaphors. Let me help. Analogies…
From Chartbeat to Google Analytics
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The Difference Between a Category and a Tag
If you’re into blogging at all you’ve probably come across the terms…
Vim, Pandoc, and Happiness
Some days I take Vim’s power for granted. Today isn’t one of those…
List all Social Shares of Your Website Using Google Analytics
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The Secret to High Productivity
I get asked a lot about how I write so much. The answer is simple: I don’t…
Speeding Up Nginx Caching With tempfs
If you’ve done anything with optimizing the speed of websites, you know…
The Times Machine
From Times Machine: 129 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared.…
The Human Font
From Wired: BIC, the office supply company that makes the world’s most ubiquitous…
How to Add Social Media Sharing Buttons Without JavaScript
If you’re like me, you are conflicted on the issue of social media buttons…
If You’re Not an Artist, You’re Support
In the Army, and the Infantry in particular, there’s a saying: If you’re…
The Relationship Between Clarity and Quality
“A turgid and polysyllabic prose does seem to prevail in the social sciences.…
Scott Adams’ Writing Style
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Aspiring to be a Quality Thinker When Everything’s Been Said
I think occasionally about the value that my writing offers the world. Common…
The Effectiveness of Writing Styles
I think a lot about writing. I’m fascinated by those who do it well, and…