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Flybys: Strava replays an entire race

Available for some time in test mode, Flybys is a (now more prominently displayed) feature from Strava that allows you…

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Smiling is it’s own reward

"In part positivity reflects the brain’s reward circuitry in action. When we’re happy, the nucleus accumbens, a region within the…

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RescueTime now integrates with IFTTT, Zapier, Slack

In the age of APIs and integrations, as Twitter goes backwards and shuts down one API after the other in…

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Weekend productivity experiment: (Almost) no e-mail

This will probably be easy as I don't get a lot of e-mail over the weekend anyway. - Rule 1:…

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14-Year old builds his own digital clock, brings it to school, teacher has him arrested

Apparently there are teachers and police officers with such a complete lack of science literacy that consider any digital clock…

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Fight procrastination with timed bursts and Time Out (Mac)

I'm currently reading the excellent "Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management" by Mark Foster and one of…

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Between (cropped) Giants

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Relax, you’re insignificant, none of this really matters

Described in Judd Apatow’s recent book, Sick in the Head, Jerry Seinfield's solution for relaxing during a stressful period: look at…

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The employee of the future (=today)

The changes in the chart are already here. Denying them or denouncing them as part of an evil capitalistic scheme…

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TripMode: Control what’s eating your mobile bandwidth

If you're often connecting your Mac laptop on the road through a mobile connection (phone, USB dongle, etc), TripMode will…

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