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Stanford philosophy professor John Perry describes how he manages to be a productive procrastinator by structuring his to-do list to compensate for procrastination.
Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things… [b]ecause they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some […]

52 projects has some ideas that’ll help you get more writing done. It’s all about getting started.
Stop talking about your novel or short story ideas and start writing. Get in the habit of writing for at least an hour every day, no matter what. One strategy is to get up an hour earlier than […]

Productivity blogger Brad Isaac’s recent series on tapping your superconscious describes a technique called “Streamwriting” that Leonardo Da Vinci used to solve problems.
Here’s how it works: Grab a pen and pad and write a question at the top of the page, like “How can I make an extra $1000 this month and enjoy it?”
Then, […]

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Share Your OPML is already a good blog ranking system, and over time it has the chance to become the definitive ranking and recommendation system for blogs. And when I say that, I’m thinking the very long tail of blogs, not just the top 100 or even 1,000
In my original post describing the service, there […]

Mark Frauenfelder:
Today’s LA Times has a short article about Tribewanted, a project to recruit 5,000 people from around the world who want to live on an island with 100 other people for a couple of weeks and build a community.

The goal: to build a sustainable eco-community and keep at bay developers with dreams of massive […]

Mark Frauenfelder:
David Roberts, staff writer for Grist Magazine read my review of An Inconvenient Truth and comments:
As you’re already aware, Al Gore’s new movie on climate change,
An Inconvenient Truth, is being released this
week. It should come as no surprise that it’s bringing the wingnuts out of
the woodwork.
A few weeks ago I did an interview with
Gore […]

Web site We Endure tracks your athletic training - like cycling, running and swimming - Web 2.0 style, with RSS, sharing, friends and fancy-pants charts and reports.
We Endure makes it really easy to keep a log of your progress, and then compare that progress with that of your friends. For the more competitive among you, […]