• My Strategies for Combatting Wrist Pain

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    Since my late teens I’ve had issues with wrist pain. I blame it on bad cycling position (riding with my wrists bent down) and other types of manual labour (8 hours of shovelling for a summer anyone?). Yes there is surgery but I’ve found that I can manage it with the tips below. Keyboard I…

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  • Yes We Certainly are in a Bubble

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    I came across 2 articles this week, one on the tech industry being in a [valuation bubble][val] and one on how [Draw Something is doing now][draw]. Remember a few weeks back when [Zynga bought OMGPOP][omg] for a stupid amount of money because it looked like Draw Something was the next big thing. Well it seems…

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  • Content’s Race to the Bottom – It Doesn’t Really Want to be Free

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    [Ben Brooks][bb] wrote a [fantastic article][bbart] about free content and the expectations that were set eons (at least in web terms) ago about content being free. I am already a [member][mem] of [Shawn Blanc’s][sb] site. I pay $3/month so he can write full time, and I’m happy to do it. Paying for his content at…

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  • I’ve Had Crappy Managers

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    Sometimes I think that working for myself contracting sucks, then I remember what it was like to be employed full-time and I remember that it sucked more. On top of sucking more I had a boss that I had to report to and there were more crappy ones than good ones. … people become what…

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  • Finally a New Design

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    If you follow me on Twitter you’ll be familiar with my extreme distaste for the old site design. I loved it when I made it, but that was 3 years ago and I’ve changed. Visit the site for a new design. I built it using [LESS][less] and my development theme [Comienzo][com]. My first real dig…

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  • Looking at a Writing Workflow

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    Frederico Viticci shared his writing workflow. I too centre my files around Dropbox. My preference for writing app on iOS is iAWriter and I don’t use Evernote, I’ll write about why an everything bucket just hasn’t worked for me some other time. I use Instapaper to store article I want to read and maybe write…

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  • What Does Productive Mean to you?

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    On a recent members podcast Shawn talked about the type Z personality, from a post by Sarah Bray. The short version of her post is that she only works for 90 minutes a day. She divides that 90 minutes in to 15 minute blocks and devotes the first 4 to 4 items that are time…

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  • Why Do You Want to Build a Product?

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    I am working on a product, a product that I not only want to use but one that I hope enough others will want to use that I can drastically pull away from client work. You’ve most likely read [Clients From Hell][cfh] and I’m sure that any consultant (again not freelancer) can put client names…

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  • Silence is Not a Bad Thing

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    I just came across Take Five which is an app designed so that you don’t sit in silence while working. It’s happened to all of us, we are working then get distracted for a second and stop our music so that we can attend to the other item. Once we get back to work we…

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  • On The Topic of Tech Serving You – What Does it Say About You?

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    After recently talking about your Tech Getting in the Way here is another post about your ‘dock’ showing what is a priority with the usage of your phone (obviously only phones with docks). The Dock. That little area on your iPhone or iPad that contains a handful of apps which are available on every screen.…

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