Catch up on Personal Reading Over the Summer

For many of us, August is the most lazy month of the year. You are well adjusted to summer, summer jobs are dying down, and if you are going on a summer vacation, it is likely now. It’s also the perfect time to re-kindle the bookworm inside you. Your mother always told you to read more, and everyone knows it is important, but it is often pushed aside for other activities when we are busy. Whether your lounging on the...

Tattoos, Piercings and Other Things That Seem Cool...

Ok, before I start this post, I want to mention that in pretty much every industrialized nation in the world, it is illegal to discriminate in the workplace based on physical appearance. That means that an employer can’t pass you over for a job because you have an eyebrow piercing. Know your rights! But that said, people hire people, not resumes. If you look good on paper, but look aggressive and offputting in...

Miscellaneous Thoughts From A.Y.

I’ve had the window of this post open for days, and as the hours tick past I’ve been going back and forth and jotting down ideas and realizations about high achievement, focus and miscellaneous ideas that are big enough to be useful, but not big enough for their own post. Most of these are just for entertainment value- I hope they make you think and/or smile! Every minute you spend doing one thing is one minute...

WolframAlpha: A new tool for online research

Ever student knows that they can go to Wikipedia for an overview of a subject, that they can go to Google for a wide variety of perspectives and popular media,  Google Scholar for academic journal references, and Google Books for searching within books, both current and obscure.  The new Google Squared even organizes output into a table of key concepts to help you organize your research. But there is a key weakness to all...

7 Reasons Why I Love OmniFocus (and Why You Should...

“You can’t expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday’s tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.” One of the biggest challenges of GTD lies is finding the right tools and system for you. There are many tools available across all platforms, including online. The hardest part is choosing a single tool that fits your personal needs, and ultimately something that you will stick to and not...

Review: Personal Development for Smart People by S...

How many of you have heard of Steve Pavlina? He is well known for his personal development blog in addition to his personal experiments on things such as raw foodism and polyphasic sleep (see his blog if you want to know more), Steve is certainly an interesting guy. Lately, he has been working on his first book, Personal Development for Smart People, which I have been looking forward to for a while now, after he...