Video Vednesday: Contorting yourself

September 8, 2010

I’ve been reading a lot about goat paths and entrenched ways of thinking in Randy Frost’s latest book (which is awesome when it’s not scaring the bejeezus outta me), and also doing a ton of walking and the regular quantity of Nei Kung. So basically, I’ve been thinking a lot about habituation and ruts and [...]

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Book review: The Art of Non-Conformity

September 7, 2010

Most of us who end up doing things on the Internet sludge around for a while, a good, long while, before we find our purpose and the means to voice it, much less an audience who is drawn to hear it. In stark contrast to this, Chris Guillebeau‘s ascent, like everything else about him, is [...]

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Frrrrriday Rrrrroundup! #20

September 3, 2010

An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffantabulous things I find stumbling around the web during the week here, but which I post on one of the many other Internet outlets I stop by (or tweet at) during my travels. More about the genesis here. This recently uncovered silent-film version of a famous showdown from [...]

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Book review: Influence

August 31, 2010

How out-of-date is the library-sale copy of Influence: The Power of Persuasion I finished recently? When my 1984-minted paperback was printed, its subtitle was “The New Psychology of Modern Persuasion.” (Italics mine, of course.) Today, the psychology Robert Cialdini outlines in his now-classic book is so not-new, it’s almost shocking to think that anyone could ever have [...]

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Lingering lovingly on failure

August 30, 2010

When does a boon become a curse? A trick question, of course: as any good Buddhist will tell you, a “boon” is just a thing, a fulcrum upon which other things can tilt one way or another. Like the Chinese Farmer story that’s haunted me since I first heard of it, what is your blessing [...]

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Frrrrriday Rrrrround-up!

August 27, 2010

An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffantabulous things I find stumbling around the web during the week here, but which I post on one of the many other Internet outlets I stop by (or tweet at) during my travels. More about the genesis here. I will never stop loving Ira Glass. [Facebook-ed] Want to [...]

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Poetry Thursday: Eno in the trees

August 26, 2010

Your shit didn’t break all at once or in order, you could argue that it never broke at all, that you were just you, fixing yourself the best way you knew how, splinting your own leg up there on the mountain, miles and miles from a trained professional. So go. Roll out a doughy stretch [...]

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Video Vednesday: To-read/Amazon Wishlist hack

August 25, 2010

(on an iPhone/iPad/non-Flash-friendly device? Click here to watch on Vimeo, I think.) In an effort to wrangle my ever-growing list of books I’d like to read, I’ve played with everything from hard-copy lists in pocket notebooks to Evernote, with a thousand .txt files in between. My ideal list is: easiest to use on my computer [...]

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The crazy lady cops to the crazy

August 24, 2010

Dan Owen loves it when I write about my workaholism. So this is going to be a banner week for Dan, something I’m happy to give him, for all he gives back via his thoughtful comments, and who knows? Maybe, just maybe, if I can chip away at some scaly mass getting in the way [...]

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Sticking a fork in it, Mister Rogers-style

August 23, 2010

While I’ve spent most of what I’m coming to call my “Sabbatical from Sabbatical” holed up alone, I have made occasional runs back into L.A. for various types of interpersonal reinforcements. A Biznik meetup. Some Nei Kung lessons, to get a particularly complex bonus-extra move down pat, successfully, fingers crossed. And, of course, for shrinkage. [...]

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