Category: Links of Interest
Done Being Man Enough
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Enjoyed this TED talk Here are my notes that will be in my research for long term findability of the video. 3:00 the world says that men must reject anything feminine or be subject to ridicule by their peers and men learn this young 3:45 we must start embracing the more feminine aspects of ourselves…
Taking on Debt to Keep Up with People Who Took On Debt
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I was already frustrated by the lack of financial sense shown in my fellow Canadians by this article but this is crazy. Canadians are under social pressure that is pushing them into debt, with 91 per cent of millennials admitting in a new survey that they have taken on debt to keep up with their…
Business Dashboard and Metric Advice
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Good post from Segment about how to measure your metrics so that you don’t get caught up in vanity metrics and so that you have something useful. If you can’t look at your numbers and make changes to improve those numbers then you have bad numbers.
Today’s Actions are Votes For Tomorrow’s Life
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Figure out what success means to you. Don’t accept others’ views or conventional wisdom. Write down what your successful personal and professional life looks like in 20 years. Then roll the clock back to today. Make sure your choices are in service of those goals. – Strauss Zelnick in Tribe of Mentors I was telling…
All consuming subscriptions
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From Nick Heer in response to this WSJ article. I think users will find it fatiguing — at best — to live in a world where we pay hundreds of dollars a month to listen to music, use software, and store files. There are advantages: we can listen to most music of our choosing on…
I Make a Point to Have Friends Now
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Kelly’s boyfriend refused to talk to other men or a therapist about his feelings, so he’d often get into “funks,” picking pointless fights when something was bothering him. Eventually, Kelly became his default therapist, soothing his anxieties as he fretted over work or family problems. Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden I…
Purposeful Productivity
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The problem with an efficiency-focused approach to productivity is that as soon as we get the space we so desperately seek, we tend to fill it with one more thing. At some point, you have to say, “Enough!” That’s from Mike Schmitz over at Faith Based Productivity off his email newsletter based on his book…
The myth of flexible self-employment hours
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Many company founders believe self-employment will allow them to control when and how much they work. Theoretically, being your own boss gives you flexible hours. But how flexible can hours be when you’re working 16 of them every day? For Better or For Work I think that for many business owners the “flex” is that…
The deferential Wife/boss
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When the wife is the boss, she’s apt to be overly deferential to her husband, fearing that he’ll balk at taking direction or mischaracterize leadership as bossiness. The fact that these days more men act as helpmeets does not mean they feel tranquil in that role. – For Better or For Work Unfortunate that woman…
Brain Farts and Errors
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I enjoyed this reminder from AYJAY that we all make mistakes. I bet I have at least one spelling mistake a week despite running spell check and Grammarly on most writing that goes through this site. The worst is his “brain farts” and how so many people will discount your point because of a minor…