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Review: Upgrade Your Life

April 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Gina Trapani (along with co-editor Adam Pash) of Lifehacker has been profound influence on my workflow since the blog’s inception in 2005. Launched about a year after Danny O’Brien codified the “life hack” concept based on geeks’ propensity for process optimization, Lifehacker has been an unending stream of tips […]

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Tags: Books

Review: Slack

March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Some of the best project management and workflow books come from the software industry. Programmers are an analytical bunch by nature, and most of their analyses port quite easily to other domains.
Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency takes the themes Tom DeMarco covered in his most well-known book, Peopleware, and […]

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Tags: Books · Productivity

Review: Catching the Big Fish

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments

David Lynch has haunted me for years. Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive are two of my favorite films. Where most filmmakers succeed or fail on their strength as narrators, Lynch’s films are streams of rich archetypes that transcend the usual demand for beginning, middle and end. A single frame may have more emotional impact than an […]

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Tags: Books · Creativity