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The Rise of Personal Infrastructure (Redux)
“I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!” Jay-Z famously raps on the Diamonds remix. There’s a lot of chatter at Twitter about individual people (“creators”) scaling up million dollar businesses. I thought Elaine Pofeldt did it first, but apparently micro ISVs have been around. Either way, this is a growing possibility for more people…
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Experimentation Is Key to Opportunity. Here Are 3 Ways to Build It Into Your Daily Routine
Experimentation is just as necessary as routine—to see what you can get, what’s out there for you.
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3 creative strategies that can make you as prolific as Edison, Mozart, and Picasso
Creativity, like all forms of progress, doesn’t just happen. It needs to be cultivated and developed. And it requires a certain way of looking at the process and results.
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3 Lessons I Stole from the Book Bill Gates Recommended to Satya Nadella
Bill Gates thinks most leadership books aren’t worth recommending, but this one’s an exception
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Why Keanu Reeves Practiced Holding a Diamond with Tweezers for Weeks
How the search for shortcuts is actually costing you precious time
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4 ways to read more books this year
When applied properly, this technique can help you get much more out of what you read and increase the amount of reading you do.
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I used to be a staff writer for Lifehacker. Here is my most important insight about productivity
A former ‘Lifehacker’ staff writer reveals his most important insight on productivity.
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The Business of Blockheads
The saying goes, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” A proposition and toast to the blockheads who are in the business of writing.