You blow your nose.

Without a Kleenex.

I'm grateful to not be in Toronto anymore. I was originally going to stay till Wednesday, but a few days ago I decided that was no longer realistic. I flew back to Montreal late last night ( Read more... )

I came to Toronto a few days ago to check it out. This city sucks ( Read more... )

Since July 29th, the date I turned my attention to the 30zzz blog and promoting the site "a bit more", 30 sleeps has had over 30,000 unique visitors from more than 135 countries, the vast majority of the interest spent on my writing, though the registered user count is also increasing steadily. I've already set a new traffic record today, and there ( Read more... )

...was not the Google query with which I hoped to start my morning. But such is life.

In other news, the 30zzz blog saw another surge of traffic yesterday, which continues today. Welcome Stumblers!

Well "reedditted", actually.

My latest life hacking blog article, Social Skydiving: The Art of Talking to Strangers, hit the front page of reddit today, #16 and rising at the moment.

The discussion is entertaining. The server crash is not. :/

Regular customers of my personal blog are probably less familiar with my life hacking blog.

I've just put up a new article over there: The Joy of Living Dangerously.

Enjoy.

Steve Pavlina once wrote a great article on 30-day trials. The idea is that making significant life changes becomes a lot easier if you take them one month at a time. In 30 days you can really dig in, without committing to forever.

Enter 30 sleeps:

http://www.30sleeps.comThe goal of the site is to ignite and inspire people to change their life ( Read more... )

"Work smarter, not harder" is one of the ultimate clichés. And, like most clichés, few people actually do it. The busy outnumber the productive by a wide margin. Here's the difference, from a geek perspective:

BusyProductive
Rolls their ownUses someone else's
Makes it "elegant" and "extensible"Makes it work
Responds to your email within a few ( Read more... )

90% of people live at 10% of their potential, choosing to work at jobs that drain their life force, choosing to be pulled along by the inertia of a bad relationship, choosing to pursue the degree their parents want, choosing to daydream up excuses for not taking action, choosing to zone out to "Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer" on CNN ( Read more... )