From the Web Upgrade your presentation skills with a guest spot I did for the Ririan Project entitled, “5 Powerful Hacks to Immediately Improve Your Presentations.” The post made lifehacker plus digg and delicious frontpages. Interested in running? Leo has a great post, “Beginner’s Guide to Running,” over at ZenHabits. And unless you aren’t already […]
Better Writing – How to Improve Your Style
To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make. -Truman Capote I want to share my process for improving my writing and refining a style. Improving your writing can be tough. I’ve read a lot about writing. But most of this focuses on the basics of […]
Friday Links for 07-05-04
From the Web Free Audio Books – SimplyAudiobooks has a number of free audio books you can download. I just finished hearing Sun Tzu’s classic “The Art of War” which is well done. Achieve Flow by Hacking Your Tasks – I recently did another guest spot at lifehack.org about task engagement. HELLO, my name is […]
Friday Links for 07-04-27
Once again it’s Friday links. Here are some resources from the web, the archives and the shelf to keep you busy over the weekend. From the Web Two Views on Personal Finance – I subscribe both to I Will Teach You to Be Rich and Get Rich Slowly. Ramit Sethi of iwillteachyoutoberich.com is a great […]
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