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Find, follow your passion for a life worth living

I believe something is officially a passion when you find yourself actually doing it instead of something else less enjoyable that should take priority and be done first—like a sink full of dirty...

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How I spent my Apocalypse Eve

When I logged in to Facebook briefly this evening I noticed they now have a little widget for privacy shortcuts. The term something something Facebook and privacy are not two words that should be used...

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Combating the malaise of year-end emptiness

facebook engancha (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The presents are freshly undone not yet a week and many of us are feeling the tug of introspection. A good deal of the populace goes into a funk around this...

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Snow problem, I’m taking the day off

Marissa Mayer (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m sure a lot of Yahoo employees are upset about their chief Marissa Mayer taking away their work from home privileges. Some would say they should be happy to...

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Better than Seinfeld: A blog almost about nothing

  Primitive Word Processor (Photo credit: DaleC/@flickrfumes) I heard someone complaining the other day that their life was so busy they didn’t have time to waste time on the Internet anymore and it...

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Who’ll be my 400th?

English: Jimmie Foxx, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Mickey Cochrane (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Four hundred still sounds like a lot to me. It represents a milestone number of things as well as being an...

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“For Professionals Going Places”

Image via CrunchBase I’m glad LinkedIn decided to update its mobile app for iPhone. It needed some freshening up.  The new app starts up with a picture of a young girl walking in front of a young man...

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Multi-taskers endangered as procrastinators thrive

The Procrastinator (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The multi-tasker is dead. Long live he or she who wears many hats. Deadlines do not consistently accommodate chronic procrastinators. A tight schedule...

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Sitting On A Chair In The Sky

Boeing 747-400 flight deck (with notes) (Photo credit: KOBUS 2C) With headline writing inspiration props to Louis C.K… The drive to the airport was mostly a silent one. “What are you going to do when...

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SBP Easily Best, Most Powerful Product Messaging Strategy

The eight-striper wordmark of IBM, the letters “IBM” in City Medium typeface. Introduced in 1967. Trademarked by International Business Machines Corporation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The layoffs at...

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New Yahoo Mail Treats Customers to Old Advertising Tricks

Yahoo Arch (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is still the land of the free last time I checked. But Yahoo forcing its new email down the throat of its user base beginning Tuesday, July 9, is another...

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‘No comment’ doesn’t cut it anymore

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the fifth D: All Things Digital conference (D5) in 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The power structures of large corporations need to change. People notice the obvious...

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You never know who you’re talking to

English: Ear. Good for listening. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Or who’s listening to what you’re saying. This is because the biggest breaks that we get in life are often by accident. Timing is...

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The mysterious case of the teasing donate button and more things I think

Beautiful Sky (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m not ready for fall break to be over but each time I come down here to work I see the piles of books and papers I must sort through, organize and get ready...

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Time to reopen ‘dislike’ debate

Italiano: versione ombreggiata e ingrandita del simboletto “like” di FB (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The world of social media is shiny and bright where everyone’s teeth are pearly white and even their...

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Reboot Friday

Thinking-ape (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Seems like it’s been a long week for a lot of people. But it’s Friday and time to forget about the stresses of work days gone by, suck it up one more day and then...

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At least we have the stock market

Stock Market Fortune Cookie (Photo credit: bransorem) I am not going to mention anything about those things going on in that place where we are supposed to be getting some representation for all of our...

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The random road to fruition

English: Actor, entrepreneur Suzanne Somers (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Can Vermont cheddar be from any place other than Vermont? Do you still get the paper? If you are someone who lives with ordered...

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Get paid, get yours: The greater good as afterthought

My LinkedIn network, visualized (Photo credit: For Inspiration Only) You still have a better chance of becoming rich in the United States than you do, say, in Russia. This is because, although the...

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We felt one another one time

He took another sip of bourbon and thought aloud about how he had come to the place in life that he was in. It wasn’t easy being old. He was in a home. Looking for friends, yet still wanting to know...

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