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RT @sachindrayadav: @kaisdavis free viagra

rejection gets easier to handle the more practice you have

Radiohead - OK Computer (8-bit) [FULL ALBUM]

preheat oven to 425, have cast iron pan in there

Slice avocado in half, take out pit

take pan out, put avocado half on, crack egg in

put whatever you want on top

place in oven and cook till your eggs [are done how you] desire

@kissane Here’s an IFTTT recipe to save the articles from that pinboard mirror to (anyone’s) Instapaper •

@MelissaHaskin Ratio and this gem () ;-)

poop-report-dot-com tackles the question of ‘How am I supposed to use the three seashells from demolition man?’ •

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Forget answering: my salary is ________. This is about all the little things that you think are your preferences but were actually given to you like gifts. People like nice things so they’ll lease themselves the car it becomes OK to have. People want to be recognized so of course they’ll join you at the right events and press flesh with the right folks. People need to be responsible so they’re going to save up for a down payment on a house. It is, after all, an investment. When I was younger I didn’t realize that these acts were bridges, and that there would come a time where you were pressured to cross them. And that in many cases, it wasn’t clear that you’d done so until after you were on the other side.

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The Woolworth Building in Downtown Eugene, Oregon • (photo isn’t mine, our photographer took it for a work project)

Paul Ford on Facebook. http://t.co/5siA2woC Let's be real, will tweet Paul Ford on anything.

Can we get GIF tattoos yet?

(and along the way I found this moment of Wednesday Zen • )

I just ordered 4 of Jason Polan’s ‘All of the Colors: Hand Drawn Circle’ pieces from @20x200 •

Breakfast •

Kale, Mint, Pineapple, Spinach, Lemon (Morning Juice) •

I just backed a ticket for @waxpancake’s XOXO conference this September in Portland, Oregon •

Michael Arrington's detailed thoughts on Klout •

THERE IS A BIRD IN THE AIRPORT AND I'M PRETTY SURE HE DOESN'T HAVE A TICKET. SECURITY?! •

my highlights from The Lean Startup by Eric Ries http://t.co/xVecX9IE

Hey @Moltz did you see the latest issue of YACHTS has dropped?

So persuading a consultant to put together PPTs at the start of projects is a powerful tool to ensure we have a clear idea of where we’re going, and importantly, the client is on board.

My duffle broke in the Eugene airport. I just picked up this nice canvas replacement for half the price.

Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012

RT @amahnke: Introducing Frictionless: #getfrictionless

Sandwich for 'Truck Laser' •

Where is this topic going? Just a life tip for everybody listening, if you compare yourself to other people and think you’re not successful unless you’re beating them by some metric you will generally be less happy than you are if you’re comparing yourself against either where you were previously or what your goals are.

Success, for me, is either beating where I was last year or beating where I thought I was going to be this year. That generates happy points for me, whereas I never really cared about comparing with other folks. I think folks like the friend of mine who success is partly defined as being seen as successful, that kind of screws up your priorities a little bit, although I’m not totally immune to that myself.

RT @blam: mudita is better

Pricing for SaaS. Friend of Patio recommends.

No matter what is going on though, I’m rarely fazed, and that’s because I have my set focus in life. My focus right now is a financial one geared towards my family. So, whenever any drama does come up in my life, I simply ask: “How does this affect [my focus]?”

It usually doesn’t and I just continue with my day as normal. This question helps to keep me on track and not get sucked into the never-ending drama that surrounds my life and I’m sure it will help you too.

Consciously make an effort to not judge or mentally critique anyone or anything, and you’ll start caring so much less about what people think of you.

If managers or bosses know this, then they should be acutely aware of the impact they have when they fail to recognize the importance to workers of making progress on meaningful work, criticize, take credit for their employees’ work, pass on negative information from on top without filtering and don’t listen when employees try to express grievances.

Rands proposes buying a blog and generating content instead of spending $ on buying links

If you knew your life were much shorter you would travel to those places you always wanted to see. If you knew your life were to be much longer you would have more time to travel; again you would travel more. So, are you trying to tell me that your expected lifespan is just at that length where you shouldn’t travel more? I don’t buy it.

By the way, the best way to understand a serial traveler or expat is to understand what they’re escaping from back home. Oppressive parents? Unsuccessful social life? Failure? Racism? Unbearable boredom? Escapism is common to all. Then again, perhaps we’re all trying to escape from something…

When you’re in a place where you don’t know anyone and where you’re not expected to know anyone, it’s easier to enjoy your own solitude. If you don’t want to do anything on the weekends, you don’t have to — you aren’t getting many incoming calls or text messages. If you don’t have anyone to hang out with on the weekends when you do want to, well, that’s okay, because after all, you are a million miles away from your home base.

Those who marry “till death do us part” end up, on average, four times richer than those who never marry. This is partly because marriage provides economies of scale—two can live more cheaply than one—and because the kind of people who make more money—those who work hard, plan for the future and have good interpersonal skills—are more likely to marry and stay married. But it is also because marriage affects the way people behave.

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Dweck found that children’s performance worsens if they always hear how smart they are. Kids who get too much praise are less likely to take risks, are highly sensitive to failure and are more likely to give up when faced with a challenge.

Americans with a college degree face a substantially smaller risk of being and staying unemployed than those without diplomas. A college degree returns 15.2 percent a year, more than double the return to stock market investments since the 1950s, and five times more than the return to bonds, gold, or government bonds, according to a Brookings Institution study.

Extensive list of blogging tools. Some gems. Lots of crap.

Determine your primary focus and value-add; then outsource, hire for or simplify/remove everything you don’t do well.

When a blow to the head creates a savant, and what that says about genius: http://t.co/kwFbyrYd

“Too much self-examination leads to self-destruction” (via Instapaper)

Too much self-examination leads to self-destruction

Comprehensive guide to SEO for seasonal/temporal keywords: http://t.co/QkfprJxt from @jane_copland

You can send one piece of mail about choice to one household, and to their neighbors you can send a piece of mail about the environment.”

You may not know these preferences of yours yet, even if you assume you’ve known for thirty years.

y experience has been that press releases have rapidly diminishing returns on syndication only, and the only way to see ROI is to generate actual, real coverage.

Taming the sound of the city: dealing with noise pollution http://t.co/suTcyQDK

In a chilling miscarriage of justice, Texas executed an innocent man for a murder he did not commit http://t.co/USdammIN. #LongReads

For example, telling me you increased sales by 300% isn’t that helpful. Telling me how you learned to handle customer objections around price could prove to be very useful.

I think @lastgreatthing is an awesome concept--one person, one thing, one day, no archive. Happy to be today's person: http://t.co/tL5LmoCR

Another example of why I can't get enough of @mattalexand's writing: Self-Renewal http://t.co/yRArxFWu

How to Create a Split Test that Mathematically Gets More Email Subscribers http://t.co/iRLbmEhx via @blogtyrant

Fascinating read. RT @NiemanLab: Josh Marshall on why TPM is no longer just a website http://t.co/adcoacZZ

“I just make it a little different each time I tell it so's I don't go crazy.” - Donna Summer on giving interviews http://t.co/sLhunFSV

“Authenticity is a paltry standard by which to appraise an idea or a work of art or a politics.” Romney & authenticity: http://t.co/4gZaagQd

"If you can picture a party that's secretly a corporate focus group, you've got a pretty good idea of what Facebook is" http://t.co/ylEUu9ES

"Awareness, not focus" RT @the99percent: Stillpower: The True Path to Flow, Clarity, and Responsiveness: http://t.co/BgRBXqTQ #99interview

Going for seed funding? Be prepared to answer these questions http://t.co/El4DC1XT

To help me figure out which features to use, I created a list of the top features and ordered them by importance. Then, I removed core features or the ones that every segment would expect a product like mine to have.

@amahnke still looking for a mailchimp lead gen example?

Pumping my own gas LIKE AN ANIMAL!

The dudes at @Gizmodo don't think there's sexism in technology. Not surprising. http://t.co/9oRZI2it

"mutual admiration societies for people who think mere thinking—about anything at all, really!—oughtta get a gold star" http://t.co/fboyNbm2