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Dr. Drang over at ‘And now it’s all this’ pointed me to a pair of command-line program call pcal (for regular calendars) and lcal (for lunar calendars) that creates neat little calendars. As a photographer, having some knowledge of the lunar cycle is helpful. I was able to convert this to a OpenOffice Draw document and size it of my HipsterPDA. Here is a copy for you! lunar-2007.odg
Gratuitous cat picture (Zia).
The Online Educational Database has a new article titled “77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better“. Some great tips there. Here is a brief sample.
8. Change your focus. Sometimes there simply isn’t enough time to take a long break. If so, change subject focus. Alternate between technical and non-technical subjects.
11. Do walking meditation. If you’re taking a hike (#25), go one step further and learn walking meditation as a way to tap into your inner resources and your strengthen your ability to focus. Just make sure you’re not walking inadvertently into traffic.
19. Brainmap it. Need to plan something? Brain maps, or mind maps, offer a compact way to get both an overview of a project as well as easily add details. With mind maps, you can see the relationships between disparate ideas and they can also act as a receptacle for a brainstorming session.
44. Cross-pollinate your interests. Neurons that connect to existing neurons give you new perspectives and abilities to use additional knowledge in new ways.
“Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Commencement address by Steve Jobs,
CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios,
delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University.
How will these dots be connected? I really don’t know.
My desk on a better day.
All good career advice starts with the fundamental premise that for the
purpose of the advice, everything else IS equal. It may not always be
able to be purely applied (YES, brilliant geniuses can have AWFUL
desks), but it is the best way to advise your charges (because they are
likely NOT brilliant geniuses for whom standards of culture don’t
apply.)
I recommend to anyone who is a manager or wants to manage themselves, get over to Manager Tools. There are great tools and resources there. Some are text, some are audio, all are priceless. Priceless in there value and price less as in FREE! I still can’t believe this stuff is free.
In the above picture of my desk we can see my home made bleacher for my hipsterPDA (link and link) with my custom vi key bindings card in the front. I still use the evil 3M Sticky Notes. Next to my eye glass case is a fun little retro PDA tool called pocketMOD. It is a PDA made out of a single sheet of paper. I haven’t used it but it is cute and my appeal to some. I’d like to figure out how to put callouts on pictures like this ala Flicker so that this things in the photo can be identified.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey
First published in 1989
Well now I finished it and I can report that the advice and strategies outlined by Covey are as relevant today as they were in 1989. This doesn’t make them timeless but a lot of what passed for “Self-help/Psychology/Inspirational” advice in the 1980’s has proved to be hogwash. The one strategy I’m implementing is to plan my time in week long blocks rather than in a shorter day block.
Stuff is bouncing around in our heads and causing untold stress and anxiety. Evaluation meetings, bar mitzvahs, empty rolls of toilet paper, broken lawn mowers, college applications, your big gut, tooth decay, dirty underwear and imminent jury duty all compete for prime attention in our poor, addled brains. Stuff has no “home” and, consequently, no place to go, so it just keeps rattling around.
Goal setting is the laying out on paper of the experiences you wish to have, the possessions you wish to own, the places you wish to go to and the people you wish to meet. The emphasis is on the experiences. Unless our possessions, acquaintances and destinations provide us the experiences we desire, they have no value for us...
Concentration: the ability to direct your thinking. The art or practice of concentration, no matter if studying biology or playing pool, is to focus on the task at hand and eliminate distraction...
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