To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I’m scared about how sappy this’ll look in print, saying this. -DFW
From the monthly archives:
I’m an Apple fan, user, and occasionally an apologist. I love my Mac(s). On the other hand, let’s just say I’m something less than a fan of AT&T wireless. So much so that I will not be laying down the plastic for a new iPhone. As much as the iPhone is designed to be the [...]
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At MBF! we love gadgets and toys and new things promising to help us improve performance. Organizers, planners, systems, perspectives, philosophies; we’ve got our fingers in every pie on the sill. Why it took us 1,440 mentions at 43 Folders to notice Quicksilver we have no idea, but it’s evidence that we’re far from the [...]
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Oh joy, while reading my 1283 feeds this morning, a great article at Read/Write Web jumped out at me. That’s because it’s the first to explain why, despite the absence of recreational substance abuse, my brain feels a mixture of drugged, speedy, flitty and fragmented all at once. There’s a name for this condition, and [...]
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I work for a large university doing a lot of “information” work, as David Allen would classify it. That means my productivity comes in fits and starts, often. Sometimes I take my work home and do it during the evenings or on weekends–all uncompensated, of course. If I didn’t have to show my face at [...]
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My office at a large university exists in an industrial building we acquired from a bank several years ago. While a little bit of renovation was done, the concept of “big open room with cubicles done in creativity killing colors (drab grey and beige, anyone?) and no natural light” managed to be a mainstay of [...]
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Had to laugh when I saw this. I’m not saying it’s not good–I honestly have no idea. I’m just laughing at how “More! Better! Faster!” the marketing angle is: Acceleration Squared Four Days That Will Change Your Life Forever. Here’s What Acceleration2 Will Do For You… My ground-breaking seminar is called “Acceleration Squared,” [...]
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I’m the kind of guy who will order the self-help DVDs off the television at 5 a.m. Not all of the time–maybe once a year I buy into some new idea or method, possibly more often if we’re talking web trends. I’m not compulsive about the decision–I do the research. But, if I like it [...]
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