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Comparing the Presidents: 2012 Election Edition
October 08, 2012There's been a lot of talk lately about the performance of various presidents (starting with Reagan) on a number of metrics. Not satisfied to take someone else's word for it, I decided to look up the numbers for myself.
How to find a job.
January 29, 2012Step by step advice for how to go about the job search process.
How has technology changed advertising?
January 3, 2012Technology has changed advertising in two specific ways. Depth and Speed.
A framework for managing multiple hobbies.
December 26, 2011"I have so many interests, how do I possibly pursue them all?"
Being Productive with only vaguely defined goals or How do I find time for it all?
December 20, 2011Simple productivity hacks for managing a life with varied interests.
8 Affiliates Scams You Need To Look Out For.
July 22, 2010So you're thinking of running an affiliate program? Here's what you need to know first.
Stores and Magazines
June 14, 2010The 4 basic types of business, and how to make the shift into the new economy.
What 100 years of book sales tells us about human nature
May 9, 2010We have lists of best sellers that go back nearly 100 years. Recently, Amazon released data from it's Kindle reader. How have tastes changed in the intervening years? How have they remained the same?
Addiction by Design: How our Seeking instinct is used to get us to shop, browse, buy; and why we like it.
April 23, 2010The mental trigger that turns us into "shopping zombies," and why we seek it out.
The Four Types of Traffic
April 21, 2010Not all traffic is equal. Big boosts in traffic don't always lead to big boosts in sales. The numbers obsessed among us (of which I admit I'm one) know this instinctively, but it's not always easy convincing others of this truth. Let's take a look at the lifecycle of a sample product & the four types of traffic and how they convert.
The US Government Budget & Debt (Obama Edition)
June 1, 2009To say that Obama has his work cut out for him would be putting it mildly. The debt is expected to surpass the gross domestic product in 2011 - someting that hasn't happened since World War II. How did we get here & what do we think will happen next? Find out inside.
Magic Happens Here : The secret to harnessing the power of communities or Crowdsourcing 101
April 18, 2009The secret to rallying people to your cause, harnessing the power of communities, and getting the crowdsourcing movement working for you.
Comparison of Outliners
March 20, 2009Comparison of a number of outliners.
USA Government Debt - historical to 2008
March 1, 2009Some simple graphs of the US debt from 1791 to 2008. Including graphs adjusted for inflation, and comparing the debt to the GDP.
The Google Proxy
Monday, June 19, 2006Google has a web proxy that may be able to get you around your corporate firewall, and may allow you to surf anonymously.
What to do with your life
Saturday, April 01, 2006"Should I work hard, be frugal & miserable now so I can enjoy life later, or should I enjoy life now, but work more & harder later?" Everyone faces these questions at some point in their life. What would you say if I told you there was an answer?
Why Most Businesses Fail (A Theoretical Model)
Saturday, March 04, 2006"We should start our own business," she said, not knowing what it really entailed. Thoughts of expenses and distant profits danced in my head.
Books
Monday, July 18, 2005Every once in a while, a book comes along that changes the way I see the world. Some are major revelations, others are small shifts. All help me see how far the rabbit hole goes.
Random Happy Gibberish
Tuesday, June 28, 2005I got a forum full of pessimistic, negative curmudgeons to tell me the words that made them happiest. Then I stuck the words in a script so they'd form something resembling sentences.
Alternate Reality: The City Competition
Wednesday, June 01, 2005Alternate Reality is alive and well.
Prof. Miller's In-class Assignment for Wednesday
Saturday, March 19, 2005Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"? "Well, today we will experiment with a new form called the 'tandem story'. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. As homework tonight, one of you will write the first paragraph of a short story. You will e-mail your partner that paragraph and send another copy to me. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story and send it back also sending another copy to me. The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth. Remember to re-read what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent. There is to be absolutely NO talking outside of the e-mails and anything you wish to say must be written in the e-mail. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached."
@Waiting
Tuesday, March 15, 2005Delegating, waiting. What do you do when you give a task to someone else. Do you track it? What list does it go on? Or if you're waiting for something and you need to track it, how far do you go before your @waiting list grows to several hundred items?
SyncBackSE - The Ultimate Backup Tool
Tuesday, March 15, 2005The two main kinds of data loss are A) your computer breaks and you need a simple backup of your data, or B) your data is corrupt, and has corrupted your backup as well. I searched long and hard to find a program that could handle both of these situations, and finally, I found one.
What context do I put my Next Actions in?
Sunday, March 06, 2005When implementing GTD, more than anything else, people seem to be confused with what @contexts their Next Actions should be in.
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