Tools of Goodness

I’ve spoken before about how resolutions blow big, stinky chunks, but only hinted at how goal-setting can really work. If you are over 40 or a realist (I am in the former camp, but hardly the latter), you doubtless understand too well that there is no one book or system or piece of software that [...]

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If I were one of those bloggers who was good at the short stuff, I might not need Clipmarks. I’d either have me a whole blog of linky goodness like Jason Kottke, have the time to write a multitude of posts about a multitude of wonderful/useful/both things like the folks at BoingBoing or Lifehacker or [...]

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I left the cocoon of Harvard, I left the cocoon of Saturday Night Live, I left the cocoon of the Simpsons. And each time it was bruising and tumultuous. And yet every failure was freeing, and today I’m as nostalgic for the bad as I am for the good. So that’s what I wish for [...]

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Mar 23, 2006 4

Colleen of the Future

I found a cool site thanks to Stumble Upon, my new-favorite source of time suckage*. It’s called FutureMe.org, and it’s nothing more than an email form that collects words you write, to someone else, I suppose, but mainly to oneself, and sends them to that person in the future. (The default is set to one [...]

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