Having a single login mechanism, Google, Facebook, or Yahoo, starts to create what I think is a dangerous concentration of information about people and their activities.
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What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned?
People from other cultures can teach us a lot, especially about how many of our beliefs are cultural, not innate. What have you learned?
“Challenge questions” on websites reduce security.
Computer challenge questions for websites make us less secure, not more.
How to quit smoking without going nuts
How to quit smoking is a huge topic. I’ll answer in a couple of seconds, in the hopes I can at least point you to some good resources. If I were going to quit smoking, based on everything I’ve been exposed to, here are the tools I’d use.
Irony? Not really. Humor? Yes!
I posted this to my Facebook page: It isn't ironic when I'm late to a meeting or put something off. It's unexpected, not ironic (unless it was my efforts to prevent it that made it happen). There's really nothing unexpected about me putting something off. That's how I...
Look out Comcast: Apple soon to disrupt cable industry!
Apple computer is poised to unveil wireless, untethered video, which will require no WiFi connection, and no monthly subscription. If ever the cable industry should be worried, it’s now. This is a disruptive technology.
Do pirated info products increase overall sales?
Giving stuff away for free doesn’t increase sales, unless you’re Cory Doctorow.
Please don’t steal my products.
If you steal products, you motivate the quality producers to leave the market. I just saw my product posted on a file sharing board. I’m not flattered, I’m just pissed.
Thank you, bloggers who helped book launch!
We had +236 bloggers and twitterers who helped us get the word out about the Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More launch. Produced by one of our PR firms, Abraham&Harrison, this video thanks the social media powerhouses who helped us get the word...
Beliefs destroy success: miserable Silicon Valley millionaires
As you know from reading chapter one of Get-it-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More, Living on Purpose, I consider productivity to be getting whatever you want as quickly and easily as possible. Many of us think money is what we want, and having it will make us...