Internet Privacy is Overrated

May 6, 2011

I find that people are often skittish about sharing much of themselves on the Internet. Although I don’t feel that way, it isn’t an insane attitude. Being public on the Internet has downsides. Anyone who applies for a job or goes on a date these days is getting Internet searched. If anything you don’t like [...]

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You’re a Pack Animal and That’s Okay

May 5, 2011

Today, I had a chat with one of my best college friends. I discovered that he was trying to adopt the same slow-carb diet that I and everyone I know is now doing, but that he was having some problems with compliance. “It would be nice to have other people around me who were doing [...]

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The Decision-Action Gap

May 4, 2011

I’ve met people who take a long time between deciding to do something and actually acting on the decision. Sometimes, I am one of those people. The good news is that there are a bunch of us. The bad news is that the samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo would tell us that we’re all a bunch of idiots, [...]

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Hack Your Brain With The Input-Output Inequality

May 3, 2011

Yesterday, I realized that one of the ten people I listed yesterday in my Twitter post was someone I no longer wanted to be like. That meant that it was time to find a new person to follow. One person who came to mind was Venkatesh Rao, author of Ribbonfarm, an intellectually heady and subversive [...]

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How To (Slowly) Change Your Life With Twitter

May 2, 2011

“You are the average of your ten closest friends.” I have heard this statement made with regard to several measures of personal success. Income. Health. Relationship status. Job. Statistically speaking, you are likely to get the same stuff that the people around you get, no matter what area you look at. You may bristle at this [...]

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Rule Your Digital Kingdom

May 1, 2011

Let’s define your digital kingdom as the collection of all ways to interact with you over the Internet while you aren’t physically there. Your Facebook profile, your Twitter account, and your MySpace account from eight years ago are all part of it, as is the Google results page for your name. Not all of these [...]

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