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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. – Malcolm Gladwell I tend to make swift decisions. Not …

five great things someone else said, vol. 11

My love-hate relationship with the Internet is mostly made up of love. The downside comes when time seems to vanish before my eyes, when one article on one site links me to another and then another, and suddenly what seemed productive turns into a black hole of time suckage. There’s …

five great things someone else said: volume four

While I may have been discussing the whole Slow Info movement yesterday, and the desire for a bit less googling and a little more time for reflection, I’m not quite as go with the flow as I sometimes wish I could be. (I have a business called TYPE A, after …

Smarty Pants

  Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. – Sigmund Freud That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means. – Albert Camus   Last week, battling a head cold that left me resembling a tree sloth, I was trying to remember if the saying was feed …