Had a blast yakking with Leo Laporte, Don Tapscott, Jeff Jarvis and his son Jake Jarvis on today’s episode of This Week in Tech. We covered much ground, from gushing over/being cautiou... Read more
In an attempt to nail down what psychological aspects factor into “the successful life,” researchers have been following 268 Harvard students from the 1940s until now, conducting... Read more
I’ve got my own pie chart of how I want to spend my time, so it was fun to hear that Jim Collins, author of bestselling book Good to Great, also has a similar breakdown, pictured right... Read more
Seems a foregone conclusion that Google’s the best search engine on the web, but at this point, there’s not that much of a gap between the second-place engine, Yahoo, and the big... Read more
While I’d call myself more a freelancer than a small business owner, I’ve done plenty of work for small tech startups running their business on webapps and a shoestring budget. T... Read more
I’m off on a vacation on the high seas with my family for a week where internet access is sparse; so no new posts will appear here till next Friday the 24th soonest. More then! Read more
The hardest part about being a freelancer for me is deciding what jobs are worth taking on, and what I should turn down. I want to do and have it all–but the whole “only 24 hours... Read more
On a day when everyone is partaking in all sorts of April Fool’s shenanigans, I got serious over at Lifehacker with my feature story on reusable solutions to common productivity proble... Read more
Stanford graduate Ramit Sethi’s personal finance blog, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, is one of Lifehacker’s most-quoted sources of financial advice, so I was honored when Sethi as... Read more
I had the pleasure of joining Leo Laporte on his mega tech podcast TWiT yesterday afternoon, alongside Kevin Rose, Jason Calacanis, David Prager, and Dan Patterson, plus a couple of fun surp... Read more
Got a case of the Mondays this morning? Techie Andre Torrez says he loves Mondays because: It’s the start of the week. You get to see what ideas that were so important on Friday stayed... Read more
You’ve got to wonder what makes a guy who builds 3D printers which also ice cupcakes tick. Apparently it’s an obsession with getting things done. Maker-of-crazy-cool-things Bre P... Read more
Pulling your gaze from your shoes, making eye contact with an ugly bag of mostly water, and communicating via spoken word is a much more difficult undertaking for the introverted nerd than i... Read more
Good strong filters can go a long way in processing your email based on rules you set up automatically. (Think: “Delete any Fwd from Aunt Bertha that mentions Rush Limbaugh automatical... Read more
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