Writing things down in a journal has a magical way of translating your invisible thoughts into tangible ideas.

(If you don’t have a journal, I recommend Day One for Mac or Day One for iOS. Or if you prefer paper, definitely get yourself a Moleskine notebook.)

“Writing in your journal can be a productive exercise to clear your mind, clarify your goals, and reflect on your progress.”

What should I consider when scheduling the time of day? Should it always be the same time of day? How should I ramp up? Guided meditation or solo? Background noise? Earplugs? How does traffic noise in my apartment affect what I should do (I can't afford to go to a meditation studio or something like that several times a week)? How often? How long?

Answer any or all of these or any other sub-questions.

а есть где-нибудь "Дюжина красивых способов завязать шарф"?

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“An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal does just that. In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science.”

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“An experiment in paying villagers in one of India’s poorest states an unconditional basic income has been successful enough to change the government’s thinking.”

"On Medium, we don’t have comments on posts; instead we have “notes.” They hang off to the side of paragraphs and are shown when you click/touch the little indicator on the side.

Arguably, traditional comments—the kind you see beneath most blog posts and pretty much every other media artifact on the web—do the same thing (in ideal circumstances). Notes are much better for the type of ideas and stories people share on Medium. Here’s why (and how they work):

The most obvious thing that’s different about Medium Notes is that they live on the paragraph level rather than below an entire post. Not only that—notes can (optionally) highlight specific text within the paragraph:

This has many advantages. For one, notes are great for feedback. It’s the central mechanism for Medium’s collaboration feature—which lets authors get feedback before they post. Being able to quickly highlight some text and say “typo” is so easy, people are willing to do it frequently. (Personally, I find it fun.)

By making notes private by default, we remove much of the incentive to spam or troll. If you’re not adding value, you’re not seen.

A third option under the private/public note control for authors is to “Dismiss” the note. This is useful for cleaning up your own view.

The note-leaver won’t know you’ve dismissed it from your view and will still see it until they delete it.

I like to leave notes on my own posts. It’s a nice way to add contextual information that doesn’t need to be in the main flow of text."

“A beautifully designed platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing.

Ghost is an Open Source application which allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even (gasp) fun to do. It's simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time messing with making your blog work - and more time blogging.”

”So don't let all the news of the day slow you down. Don't let your competitors press releases and launch parties get inside your head. Plan, build, ship, and scale. Assess. Repeat again and again. Win.”

«Те из нас, кто, подобно Диане Гэблдон и мне, предпочитают не давать разрешения на использование своего мира и героев для создания фанфиков, делают это не просто из вредности. Мы делаем это, чтобы защитить себя и свои творения.

Более того: мы обязаны так поступать. Этого никто не заметил ни в одном из тысячи комментариев к записям в блоге Дианы. Было много болтовни по поводу копирайта, насчет того, является ли создание фанфиков незаконным, подпадает ли оно под ограничения добросовестного использования (fair use) (и, кстати, нет, не подпадает, по крайней мере, насколько я знаком с применением этой доктрины, а мне в свое время пришлось хорошенько с ней познакомиться при написании «Шума Армагеддона» (The Armageddon Rag)*), но никто не отметил важнейший аспект закона об охране авторского права: копирайт надо защищать. Если кто-нибудь нарушает ваш копирайт, и вам об этом нарушении известно, и вы не предпринимаете никаких действий по защите, закон толкует это как отказ от защиты вашего авторского права. И после этого любой может делать с вашим материалом всё, что ему в голову взбредет. Если я позволю паре фанатов опубликовать их фанфики по ПЛИО и ничего не скажу, то у меня не будет законных оснований противостоять попытке какого-нибудь Билла Спёра и издательства Обдирайтунг выпустить книжку-другую по ПЛИО в надежде зашибить немножко денежек. Эти конкретные фанаты могут быть милейшими людьми на земле, движимыми искренней любовью к моему миру и героям, и только. Но появятся и Билл Спёр с Обдирайтунг, которые никаких чувств не испытывают. Им бы денег.»

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Результаты некоторых решений ещё предстоит оценить, но все они направлены на дело, а не пляску с кнутом вокруг сотрудников.

Каждого бюрошника учат решать задачи в мире пользы, а не бюрократии. Не влезает кнопка в экран? Сначала подумай, что она делает, а не как её запихнуть в макет. Клиент недоволен частью работы? Подумай, как решить проблему, не разрушая дизайн, а не как продавить клиента. Коллега задерживает работу? Потребуй результат, а не присутствия на рабочем месте.

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Fast Company:

“Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you're pregnant or divorced or trying to lose weight, about how rich you are and what kinds of cars you have.

Regulators and some in Congress have been taking a closer look at these so-called data brokers — and are beginning to push the companies to give consumers more information and control over what happens to their data.

But many people still don't even know that data brokers exist. Here's a look at what we know about the consumer data industry.”

The Impossible Project has earned its name by re-inventing instant film for Polaroid cameras.

“A First Look — The New York Times is redesigning its Web site — starting with the article experience. See what’s different, and request access at the bottom of the page.”

“As we finished up our dinner, Wetherell said that it took a lot to make Google Reader work.

For instance, it was Google Crawler that gave the system ability to make lightening fast connections and also bring up recommendations. It is one of the main reasons it cannot be open sourced. The systems is too intertwined with Google’s search and other infrastructure to be sold as well.

In addition, Google had a separate recommendations team fine tuning Google Reader and those people don’t come in cheap. And let’s not forget that it was Google’s infrastructure that allowed millions of accounts to be hosted and many billions of items – photos, videos, text objects to be saved for people to consume them at their leisure.

It wasn’t and it still isn’t a cheap exercise, said Wetherell, rationalizing why he somewhat understands Google’s predicament. ”This is and will always be a Google level problem, especially if you are building a service for more than a few people,” he said.”

I guess I'll be exporting to the old reader . Also: fuck you Google for taking away one of my favorite tools AGAIN.

Here then is where we come back to that old disconnect between what consumers want and what content providers want them to want. Sometimes the disconnect is just a matter of obstinate cluelessness, like when restaurants insist on filling their websites with Flash and PDFs, rather than just their hours of operation and menu. The second-screen phenomenon, though — and specifically the networks’ recent aggressive involvement with it — is more a case of established organizations trying to co-opt or cash-in on something that originally happened outside their purview. It could be more useful someday. Right now, however, the majority of the second-screen apps aren’t solving a problem, or even providing a new kind of entertainment that didn’t exist before. Instead, they’re mainly just taking what Twitter and Wikipedia already do just fine and slapping their own logo on it.