Filling Much Needed Holes - Don Norman

“How many times do the never-ending ethnographic studies coupled with ever-eager design groups lead to unwanted, unnecessary, overburdening, and environmentally insensitive products? How many times are these unmet needs best left unmet?”

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The gentle art of selling yourself | Review | The Observer

“It is said that we are all three different people: the person we think we are (the one we have invented), the person other people think we are (the impression we make) and the person we think other people think we are (the one we fret about).”

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Indexed - Vaguely self-explanatory

“This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others.” Collection of funny graphs, scatter plots and venn diagrams on index cards.

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Pen Jilette: There Is No God

Part of NPR’s series “This I Believe”

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On the value of idleness

An essay originally published in Harpers Magazine.

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Puzzle player personalities

The “opportunist” vs the “border obsessive.” Opportunists are better at cooperating.

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Research suggesting that self-control may be a limited resource

Rather than a will, or skill, self control may need to be periodically replenished through sleep or positive emotional experiences.

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“My only bit of personal advice: don’t let your job define who you are. Let it provide you the opportunity to define yourself in other ways - hobbies, travel, whatever.”

Easy to forget

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Touching story of an overheard exchange in a New York restaurant between two aging people in love

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The Thought Project

Simon Hoegsberg stops 150 people on the street in Copenhagen and asks them what they were thinking about right before he stopped them. Charming photos and thoughts.

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Post by a cubicle coder turned bike messenger

Bottom line: it rocks, and it sucks! Interesting to hear the story of someone who has tried it.

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Unsolicited advice from Anil Dash

It doesn’t matter if you thought of it first, it’s whether or not you push through and make it really happen!

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On staying on the growing track, in how you approach work and life

One of the best thoughts was on approaching learning with desire and innocence. Acting like you know everything replaces time when you could be actually learning with time when you’re pretending like you already do.

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KCRW show “Final Curtain” profiles celebrities and persons of note who have died in the last week.

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Twelve ways to think differently

Includes mediatation, cultivating intuition and others.

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Post from Coffee Waffle on how he manages to live his life the way he does.

He chalks it up to not being beholden to a job as a way of defining yourself, challenging your comfort limits with new experiences, eating right, getting outside and not owning a television. Sounds like good advice to me.

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