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Brrrrrng!!! My new productivity trick

Like most of you, I care deeply about my personal productivity. And like many of you, I’m always disappointed on that dimension of my life.One of my problems, verified by data from Rescue Time, is that I’m spending too much time on email, especially during the morning hours when I’m most productive.So this week, I’m trying […]


Picture of the day: National pastime meets national security

A collection of confiscated Louisville Slugger mini-bats displayed at the security line of Louisville International Airport.(BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!!  . . . My metaphor detector just went off.)Photo taken: 7-17-08, 1245pm 


Remarkable renewal

If statisticians could fashion an on-base percentage for business gurus, Seth Godin would be Ted Williams. Nobody has a better rate of success in getting smart ideas in play.One of my favorite bits of Godin guidance is to “remarkablize” even the most mundane aspects of your business — a great example of which arrived in the mail yesterday.I subscribe […]


Business idea of the day

Idea: Dance-powered eco night clubName: Club4Climate — whose dance floor supplies enough energy to power 60 percent of the facility and whose door policy offers discounts to patrons who walked, biked, or subwayed to the club, according to Springwise.Founder: Dr. Earth(Via Springwise) 


The irony alert level is Orange

Here’s a sign I spotted today at Washington Reagan National Airport touting a conference called What’s Coming Next . . . which took place two-and-a-half months ago.  


A digital camera: Don’t open your door without it

Via Gizmodo:“Last Tuesday, Lori Mehmen looked out her front door in Orchard, Iowa and this is what she saw. She had a digital camera handy, and somehow managed to take this photo before crapping her pants and taking cover. This, my friends, is why always having a camera nearby is helpful. Oh, and no one was […]


A dramatic leap into 2006

For the many of you who’ve been asking, yes, at long last I am now on both Facebook and Twitter.  Friend me.  Follow me.  Of if you dare, frollow me.


The (holographic) singularity is near

Here’s a short snippet of video I shot of Ray Kurzweil “appearing” at the Thinking Digital conference in Newcastle, UK yesterday.   Instead of flying to northern England, Kurzweil beamed in via Teleportec, a souped-up video feed that delivers a quasi-hologram of the speaker to the audience and allows the speaker to see the audience.  


Robert Rauschenberg

When I arrived in Heathrow tonight, one of the first emails I noticed on my phone was a news alert from the New York Times:  “Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82.”  A sad day. I’m a huge Rauschenberg fan — as much for the way he lived his life as for the […]


My 5 favorite books on writing

This post is getting a lot of hits over at JohnnyBunko.com.  Some of you might find it interesting, too.

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