Archive for March, 2008

Friends with RSS Feeds

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

The only thing shorter than my list of friends is my list of friends with RSS feeds. I’m lucky to have smart friends. Enjoy.

  1. Lorianne Tibbets – Will Write for Coffee (feed)
  2. Patrick Shen – my immortality project (feed)

Top 5 Podcasts for March

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Previous Podcast Post

Podcasts come and go like the beautiful underfunded whims they are. Here is the current morning line up.

(Links go directly to iTunes.)

  1. Mac OS Ken
  2. (weeklies) Cute With Chris, or No Agenda, or Amtrekker, or TWIT
  3. Front Page (of the New York Times)
  4. Tech5
  5. Mahalo Daily

Get an iPod, or better, an iPhone. Connect it directly into your car stereo. Start enjoying your commutes.

Unjustified mental obstacles

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Learn Powerpoint. It is easy. Or learn something else. I don’t care. Everything is learnable, or else people wouldn’t be able to learn it. That reality is less clear than you might think.

Sometimes there is a higher barrier to entry, time, but this is rare. Got time? Then you’re back to not having barriers again.

If you’re alive you may as well do something. Join the rest of us who are fighting laziness to the death.

An idle mind is the devil’s workshop. At least with a busy mind you have a chance.

It is impossible to sit and do nothing and be having fun. The mind starts up in the wrong direction every time. You’ll be too busy to realize you’re having fun when you are.

Fun is what we notice looking back. It’s not worth looking back on an hour. But looking back on a month is great.

Learn Powerpoint.