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I love fast cars. Enter the Audi R8 supercar. OMFG. I get a massive amount of e-mail — almost 300 per hour at one point during major media — which is why I outsourced my inbox in the first place to virtual assistants. Sometimes, though, comes a snort-worthy e-mail — a zinger exciting enough to …
I was interviewed recently from Uruguay by Marco della Cava of USA Today for a cover story that appeared yesterday titled “Speeding Up the Mad Dash”. It’s a quick read and good food for thought: If you’re reading these words, the chocolates and flowers are on their way. Because given the gazillion draws of modern …
Continue reading “Services for a Hyperspeed Life: Faster Speed Dating, 100-Word News Summaries…”
Branding is no longer for Fortune 500 companies and Madison Avenue agencies with excessive budgets and inadequate tracking. Personal branding is about managing your name — even if you don’t own a business — in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your “blind” date has …
I once went almost five days without sleep in 1996 just to see 1) if I could make a week (I couldn’t), and 2) what the side-effects would be. I was a new neuroscience major at Princeton at the time and hoped to do research with famed serotonin pioneer, Barry Jacobs. Hallucinations cut my sleep …
Continue reading “Relax Like A Pro: 5 Steps to Hacking Your Sleep”
I’ll cover my head in shame: I only discovered keyboard shortcuts about a year ago. There, I said it. Here are a few shortcuts that take out excessive mouse use and — cumulatively over thousands of computer movements per week — save hours and hours. There a million and one “shortcuts,” but learning them all …
This post was not planned. But… I have lost two close friends from both high school and college to suicide, and Heath Ledger’s unexpected death, which shows all the signs of suicide, saddened me on a profound level. It just shouldn’t happen. To paraphrase Dan Sullivan: the problem isn’t the problem. It’s how you think …
Continue reading “Depression: How You Label Determines How You Feel”
What if you never had to check e-mail again? If you could hire someone else to be spend countless hours in your inbox instead of you? This isn’t pure fantasy. For the last 12 months, I’ve experimented with removing myself from the inbox entirely by training other people to behave like me. Not to imitate …
Continue reading “The Holy Grail: How to Outsource the Inbox and Never Check Email Again”
[Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Anne Zelenka, who serves as Editor at Large for Web Worker Daily.] If you are so passionate about your work that you border on obsessed, you might find it near impossible to turn work off. This is especially so in the web age, when you can stay …
Continue reading “5 Boundary-Setting Tips for the Work Obsessed”
Dogs get it. (Photo: Fran-cis-ca) The last time I landed in London, I crashed with a friend on his sister’s floor. It rocked. In between watching games of the rugby world cup, we drank great wine as kiwis and whinging POMs “took the piss” out of me for hours on end. It was cheaper than …
Continue reading “Surfing the World Wide Couch: The Benefits of Urban Camping (Plus: Sweaty Tango)”
Contacting would-be VIP mentors is something most people have trouble with. The question isn’t just “how do I contact them?” but also “how should I communicate with them once I do?” I teach students how to reach the unreachables in my guest lectures at Princeton, and here is my response to a recent e-mail about …