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“Let the small bad things happen and make the big good things happen.”
Go read Tim Ferriss on killing distractions.

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Why I’m More Productive on a Mac - PaulStamatiou.com

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Josh Sowin on going after your Self-taught MBA.

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Google docs is handy and in case you haven’t realized it’s potential maybe you need to watch this video.

Via: Official Google Docs Blog: And now we present…

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TokBox: Video chat without having to download software. May have to try this out since the MacBook has the built in iSight camera.

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Tagging my bookmarks has been wonderful. Today I discovered Punakea for Mac OS X which looks very promising in that it will allow me to tag the mountain of files I seem to dig through every day looking for the one I need at the moment. Finding files can be irritating to say the least. [...]

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I try to get things done (gtd), I really do. But when I can’t do it right away or I’m trying to do something else and an important item needs to be placed on my list of things to do I want a quick way to add it to my list so I can get [...]

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Clever - Sentenc.es - A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email. Picked this up from the Video for Merlin’s “Inbox Zero” talk

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Print the Gmail shortcuts page and keep it handy by your keyboard to learn to use Gmail more efficiently from the keyboard.

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Guy Kawasaki makes a good case for The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint.
I am trying to evangelize the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It�s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
Great advice.

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Just started taking Mozy for a spin–it’s a free online backup service that gives 2GB of space to store your files. Unfortunatly it’s for Windows XP only for now.

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Bill Gates demonstrates how to efectively kill a presentation with information overload. Writers Block Live says,
How can the most successful technology company in history, run by the richest man in the universe, stand in front of the world with such incredibly lame slides in their presentation? They look like something put together by a high [...]

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37signals want’s to know if you’d pay for Google.
If Google wasn�t free, would you pay $5/month for it?
I wonder if they know something the rest of us don’t?

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Adam Gurno shares a great idea about how to use post-it flags to organize and cross reference your reading. (from)

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Lifehacker points to Virginia Tech’s page on How to read a difficult book.

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It’s hard to be productive if you’re constantly tired, find it hard to get out of bed in the morning or can’t seem to get into a regular sleep routine. Here’s a fresh approach to getting the proper amount of rest each day, taking the steps necessary to get out of bed at a set [...]

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Followers of the Getting Things Done method of time management have a new, cool, tool to use to implement their lists. Nathan Bowers has adapted Jeremy Ruston’s Open Source TiddlyWiki for use as a Getting Things Done list manager. It’s pretty cool. There have been some great new features added recently. My favorite additions [...]

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Interesting idea - Gmail certainly is good with spam.

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Thinking of mind mapping? Here’s a straight forward how-to. (via Lifehacker)
While you’re at it you might want to check out the free mind mapping software, FreeMind.

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Stever Robbins writes a mean list of email productivity tips.
Here’s what he says about constantly sending messages back and forth with certain people throughout the day.
Sometimes the problem is the opposite—sending 500 tiny messages a day will overload someone, even if the intent is to reduce this by creating separate threads. If you [...]

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