Essay
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A Rallying Call To Myself
Since picking through a few ‘self-help books’ and business related topics I read through Ryan Holidays Ego is the Enemy. As many people that talk about the book note, I too spent the entire time reading it nodding …
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Remove The Hype
Simon Woods wrote: One of the things I wish we could take back as a result of the web: Hype culture. I much prefer being unaware of when something is being made until it is actually done. Release dates, months-long …
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Your privacy is not the price of entry
For the past two decades there has been a battle to collect as much information about you as possible. Data centres are filled full of so much of your data that they could make a pretty accurate copy of your inner …
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Posting Read Books On Goodreads To Micropub
After spending some time setting up posting films to micropub, I really wanted to get my reading sorted. There are great options out there like indiebookclub – but I wanted to automate it and make it possible every time …
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Be An Anteambulo
Vishal Kataria wrote: Every artist whose work made an impact did more than just his work. He appreciated the opportunities he got to clear the path for patrons which in turn, helped him see how things worked on the …
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Google should be killed as the default search engine everywhere
Kim Lyons for The Verge: Most of Mozilla’s revenue comes from search engine companies like Google— as well as Yandex in Russia and Baidu in China— that pay for their search engine to be the default option in Firefox. I …
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Sitting In The Chair
That’s the easy bit right. Sitting in the chair, then you’ve got to sort all your desk out, check out Twitter for a bit, change writing apps 3 times and then what? Talking about writing is easy, what’s hard is actually …
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Battling Your Ego
A year or so I wrote about the trouble with letting your ego in, what I really should of titled it is when I let my ego in, but stopped short because of well….ego. It’s easy to write a blog post giving imaginary readers …
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I Can’t Go Back Can I
When thinking about my smartphone usage I always long for something simpler. A life not filled with beeps and bings, one without a phone at all — but there is always something in the way. A need to be contacted, a reason …
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Self Promotion
Last week Chris Wilson opened up his newsletter ‘Learn, Create, Share’ with the following quote. “Your problem,” my brother explained “is the same as mine. We’re bad at self-promotion because we were taught not to be …