Leo from Zen Habits has just posted the 50 top productivity blogs. It’s a great list for finding some different kinds of blogs that can help improve your life. I found quite a few blogs to add to the ‘ol RSS reader. Oh, and I couldn’t help but notice that LifeDev is on the list ...
April 2007
A lot of times people try to find the latest and greatest tool to fully organize their lives. I can tell you up front… it’s not gonna happen. What makes the self-help/productivity arena so interesting is there there isn’t one tool to “rule them all”. Some have come close, but tools aren’t meant to organize ...
Australian researchers have found that people don’t learn as well when they’re thrown two separate inputs to process at the same time. An example of this inadequate presentation style is the traditional Power Point presentation.  This generally consists of a prepared topic outline on the screen and the lecturer extrapolating the finer points. “It is ...
Steve Pavlina has an interesting post on Self-Help Junkies. Basically, they’re people who spend all of their resources learning how to get better, and not actually doing anything to improve their life. Much like drug addicts, self-help junkies feed their addiction by digesting more and more feel-good material. They get sucked into the emotional high ...
I came across an interesting site this evening, and initially wondered if it was a belated April Fool’s prank. Nope, it’s just a bizarre Google Maps mashup that shows… wait for it… who’s sick around the world. Log on to Who Is Sick and see who’s sick around the nation, or if you’re feeling a ...
Apparently GMail truncates email messages longer than a few hundred lines. Digital Inspiration informs us that if you do find yourself with an email that has been truncated, you need to click a link to read it all. This normally wouldn’t be a problem, except that if you receive long forwards, GMail just forwards the ...