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Tracking reading: Goodreads to Beeminder

If you're into quantified self (e.g. digitally tracking your work, health, habits, whatever) you might have heard of Beeminder, which…

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Social Media 101: never use a photo of yourself as your cover photo

You already have the profile photo for that. I know that you're supposed to project yourself through you profile but…

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Apple, Microsoft and battery-related scandals

People on the internet (or at least the ones that only read headlines) were outraged these last few days to…

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Solving procrastination: I read this book so that you don’t have to

Just finished Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change, by Timothy A. Pychyl. Dr Pychyl leads…

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These mails from Twitter sound kind of desperate

The bad (or good) thing about these kind of notifications is that it reminds me of a book on how…

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Reminder, you’re always giving information to Facebook

In case you were wondering how much information you're providing to Facebook's advertisers, there is a page for that. To…

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YouTube adds Contacts and Private Chat features

Every app/platform in today's world should have every feature possible so since you already have contacts/friends/connections in Facebook/Twitter/Google+/etc, you might…

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Tracking writing goals: Scrivener + Dropbox + Beeminder

I’ve been tempted to try out Beeminder's URLminder integration after their most recent blog post, and for added procrastinating fun…

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How to take a Multiple Intelligences assessment test

It's quite easy actually, just answer this online list of questions :) Dr. Howard Gardner, a professor of cognition and…

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Be positive to be healthy to be positive

Positive emotions, positive social connections, and physical health influence one another in a self-sustaining upward-spiral dynamic. From a 2013 paper:…

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