Archive for the ‘ Productivity ’ Category

Group projects are now slightly less awful

In school this year I’ve been assigned a very large group research project with four other students.  Traditionally, these kinds of projects start off pretty straightforward, with each person working individually to find data to solve a business problem.  But as the team gathers its research, it becomes increasingly difficult to sort though, organize, and Related posts:

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My favorite useful 3rd party Mac tools

I like finding free little third party programs that add useful functions to the already great Mac OS.  I download lots of these, but there are only a few that I use on a very regular basis.  (Sorry PC users, these are predominantly Mac-only programs.  But I’m sure there are plenty of PC alternatives for Related posts:

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Hard drives are not magic. How can you back up your data?

For a short while, I was the “Junior Service Writer” at Springboard Media in Philadelphia PA.  In this job, I dealt with everyone who wanted to bring their Apple computers in for repair.  I learned a few important things during my short tenure: Customer service jobs are the worst.  The. Worst.  When I took this job, No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

Textbook shopping is strangely really confusing

It’s August, which of course means an explosion of news articles about how expensive textbooks are and what poor college students are doing these days to keep these costs down.  Where people buy their textbooks and how they actually read them is becoming more and more varied and confusing, making bookselling the latest perfectly good No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

I love Facebook and Kool-Aid

A fascinating and insightful post about why Facebook is a really useful, productive tool that everyone should embrace. You can skip this one if you want Related posts:

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I Hate Paper (unless it has microdots on it)

This post talks about the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen and how it changed my life. Seriously, you should read this and buy one Related posts:

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What’s My Point?

This blog is about my frantic sprint to a life where everything I do, write, read, watch, and (perhaps) say will be translated into 1’s and 0’s, stored on an unfathomable number of computers around the world, and be instantly accessible from my MacBook. All the stuff I discuss in here is really cool, (usually) really cheap, and make me more productive.
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