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Simplicity

Want to be Heard? Try Shutting Up

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Many (Most?) of us work a day job – probably in an office setting. Working as part of a team in an office can be great, but it also has it’s challenges. Being heard, even if you have great ideas, is one of those challenges. Your instincts may tell you to speak louder, and more [...]

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The telephone is an aberration

“The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk [...]

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Instapaper Pro Update for iPhone and iPad

As a huge Instapaper fan, I was quite happy to see the latest Instapaper Pro update (version 2.2.3 if you keep track of that sort of thing.) While most of the actual updates lie in the iPad version, the big deal for me was iPhone OS 3.0 compatibility. See, as a jailbreak fan, I’m still [...]

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A Reminder to Sleep

In my Google Reader account today I spotted this gem: Get Some Sleep! by Randy Murray. A quick excerpt: Sleep is one of the great joys of life. And sleep deprivation is used as a torture technique, a way of programming inductees in cults. Why would you torture yourself, diminish your mental capacities and do [...]

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Schedules don’t jive with Simplicity

Way back in the early days of Simple Llama, I created a hard-set schedule. Every Monday and Thursday I was to publish a shiny, brand new article. For quite awhile, that schedule worked perfectly. In fact, I was often ahead of things, and had a full queue of posts waiting to be published. There came [...]

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Reflection

This morning my grandmother passed away. She spent the last few weeks of her life in the hospital; and she’s had numerous major medical problems the last 5-10 years. Several strokes, a heart attack – you name it, she’s probably had it. I spent much of today reflecting on my grandmother’s life here on earth. [...]

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