How to Become a True Friend | Life Optimizer (12)
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The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson We all want to have true friends, but the quality of our friends depend on us. If you want to have true friends, you should be a true friend yourself. By being a true friend, people will love to be around you and many of them will eventually become your true friends. In addition, being a true friend is a good ...
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Manan Kakkar said:
Some basics on how to be a good friend. Straight to the point. Worth a read and consideration.
Social Networking SocialU Wants To Be Your Everything (22)
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SocialU claims not to be just another social network aggregator. Instead, they call themselves a social networking portal that runs as a desktop application via Adobe Air. The application is like a Web browser that displays all of your social networks in their own tabs. You can undock networks and tabs if you want. You can choose which networks to load at startup in tabs. There’s a decent amount of social networking sites you can ...
Social Networking AIR App SocialU Wants to Be Your Everything (Invites) (19)
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SocialU claims not to be just another social network aggregator. Instead, they call themselves a social networking portal that runs as a desktop application via Adobe Air. The application is like a Web browser that displays all of your social networks in their own tabs. You can undock networks and tabs if you want. You can choose which networks to load at startup in tabs. There’s a decent amount of social networking sites you can ...
50 Amazing and Essential Novels to Enrich Your Library (82)
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I recently ran into a couple of reading lists (I’ll share them at the end) and realized that I LOVE reading book recommendations. I can’t get enough of them. So I decided to compile my own (somewhat eclectic) list of novels I think are amazing and essential to every library. I hope you enjoy it. I should make some notes before diving in. First, this isn’t a comprehensive list of classics. It’s not a comprehensive ...
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Brett Stewart said:
Another book list I'll never get through, but fun nonetheless.
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Coop said:
Solid list, but 'The Time Traveler’s Wife'?
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Twi said:
This is a surprisingly good list of books. I've read about 1/2 of them, and all are great recommendations. Hooray BOOKS@!
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shrutes said:
yikes, I haven't red a lot of these!
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Tink *~*~* said:
How awesome to see so many of my favorite classics on this list! I think I'll have to write about what's on my own bookshelves now... :D
The Benefits of Failure (1)
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My wife and I were doing some research into how education is handled in various countries when we ran across some interesting statistics. Basically researchers took middle school age children from a bunch of different countries and tested them in mathematics. The US children did very poorly compared to the rest of the developed world. However, the researchers went a step further and asked the children to rate themselves in mathematics. The US children consistently ...
5 Tips For Coworking With Friends (9)
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Teleworkers who miss the networking and collaboration that happens in a typical corporate environment have resorted to coworking. Because of this trend, several coworking opportunities are showing up all over, and you’ll find that Average Web Worker Joe setting up his own coworking space with some friends. But mixing friends with business has always been tricky. Even if you’re just coworking, you still run the risk of having your friends interfere with your business - ...
How to Lead Change in Your Organization (31)
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Change is the biggest constant in today’s business world. Even charities and educational organizations are finding that they need to constantly innovate not only to compete for donation dollars, clients, and members, but to remain relevant to the changing social landscape around them as well. But people hate change. Right? The management literature is loaded with tales of corporate innovation gone awry – product launches flubbed, reorganizations that caused productivity to plummet and workers to ...
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mrplatts said:
Interesting to follow up on later.
10 Things to Avoid to Find Happiness in Life (10)
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If you want to be happy (and I’m sure everyone does), it’s essential to make sure that you don’t fall into pitfalls on the way to happiness. Falling into the pitfalls will make it difficult for you to be and stay happy in life. That’s why I believe that one of the best ways to find happiness is to learn about the pitfalls. The more you know about the wrong things to do, the better ...
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Adam said:
Don't agree with the being idle part. Nothing wrong with being idle.
3 Resources for Web Designers (3)
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Not every web worker is also a web designer - but many of us are, on scales from our own blog to giant commercial applications. If you find yourself pushing pixels and HTML and CSS around on a regular basis, you know that there’s an almost unlimited amount of knowledge to master to be really good at it. Here are three gateway resources that can help you find that information: Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web ...
Six tips for designing your happiness commandments. (5)
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Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: Six tips for designing your happiness commandments. I have a happiness project, and I think everyone else should have one, too. Everyone’s project will look different, but we can all benefit. One very useful – and also challenging – thing I’ve done as part of my happiness project is to formulate my own commandments, i.e., the precepts that I want to guide my actions and thoughts. Here are ...
Oh, the humanity! Hiring your spouse — er, “husband”. (1)
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Did any of you see the New York Times article, “Would You Hire Your Husband?” Collecting a handful of examples of men employed by their wives’ businesses, the story has such a perpetual tone of amazement, I half expect the author’s face to be frozen into an o-mouthed, eyebrows-raised mask of surprise. The subtext that runs throughout the piece can be summarizes thusly: Did you know that some men are not only progressive enough to ...
Handling Inherited Clutter (1)
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In June, the New York Times ran two articles addressing inherited clutter. "The Tyranny of the Heirloom" and "Mother, It’s Too Elegant! And Other Lies to Protect Your Home From Unwanted Heirlooms" give light-hearted nods to the frustrations we can feel when family members pass along unwanted heirlooms. In "The Tyranny of the Heirloom," reporter Joyce Wadler discusses how to detach yourself from the idea of throwing away your father when you might choose to ...
