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Writing it all out

I don’t want to chalk it up to the start of a new year, but it seems like every January I always want to start getting parts of my life more and more situated. With the growing popularity of sites like Zen Habits and Lifehacker—personal productivity blogs—it’s hard not to come across a tip or [...]

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Rounding out the year

A lot has happened since my last post. Here’s a succinct list of the major events that transpired since then:

For Halloween, I went as a Wall Street stock broker (noose and all).
Obama FTW!
I went to San Francisco for the second time this year with the usual suspects.
Thanksgiving—ate turkey and instantly regretted eating meat again; back [...]

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My personality type

Today I took a 72-question Myers-Briggs quiz on the Facebook app MyType. It’s funny how spot on these seemingly silly quizzes can be (I guess that’s why the theories surrounding them have been around for so long). The quiz determined that I’m an ENFJ (Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging) [typelogic] [wikipedia]. It’s interesting [...]

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On productivity and sleep

An article I cam across yesterday morning spoke on the theory that humans are really only productive for six hours out of the day. For this time period out of the entire day, you are mentally alert and can produce high quality work; for the rest of the day, your brain tires and must [...]

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Just do it.

Last night I had the pleasure of attending a conversation (read: not a lecture) by the author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and film director David Mamet with Robert Faires of the Austin Chronicle.
It was a great time; Mamet has so much experience with talking to an audience, it was only natural to note that he had [...]

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