The One Email You Must Send Before You Go on Vacation
Sending out this one email before you go anywhere for an extended period of time will help you enjoy your vacation a little bit more.
The Most Unconventional Book Review I’ve Ever Written
Cal Newport is on to something. In his latest book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, he goes against the grain of many popular theories that preach you should “follow your passion”. Instead, he suggests that skill trumps passion when it comes to a career. And I think he’s right.
How to Get Unstuck: The Big Paper Exercise
If you ever find yourself stuck and unclear of where you are and where you’re going, do the following to get unstuck and get moving again — in your right direction: Find some paper. The bigger, the better. Write out what you are doing, who you are doing it for, and why you are doing
Stop Searching and Start Shipping
Every day we open up our laptops, turn on our tablets or swipe our smartphones and start searching for something. Whether it’s within an app, or within the walls of the World Wide Web, or within our inboxes…we search. And while it’s true that we do tend to do something with what we end up
App.net (So Far)
This past week my credit card was (finally) charged for my backing of App.net. Like many others, I got in on the alpha after backing the newest social network on the block, and also like many others I’ve been actively using the service ever since. But I haven’t but heavily active. I still use Twitter
The Pen is Mighty
I stumbled upon a post by C.C. Chapman that was written entirely in pen, I was curious. Not only was it a great piece, but it was part of Pilot Pen’s initiative called The Power to the Pen! and I became even more curious. I’ve been a fan of Pilot pens for a while, having
Generally Helpful Tips
The following is a guest post from a new friend of mine, Mark Davidson, who I had the pleasure of meeting through my friend Yukari Peerless. Mark’s a very funny and talented guy, and when I asked him if he’d be willing to write a guest post for me I was stoked when he said
Postbox: A Powerful Cross-Platform Email Client [Review]
It turns out that when I decided to search for a new e-mail app of choice, that Postbox won out. But I neglected to go into deeper details as to why this was the app I went with. So, to give you a better idea why Postbox isn’t just right for me but also might
On Not Writing
This past week or so has been rough. We’ve been through a lot at the Vardy household. The family car broke down while we were out of town, our kitchen was wrecked by fire, and my right hand received second-degree burns fighting said fire. Now there is no debating that I probably wouldn’t have been