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When I read this morning’s ReadWriteWeb post about digital hoarding by Taylor Hatmaker, I discovered a kindred spirit amid the sea of inbox zero fanatics and Evernote acolytes. For I, like Hatmaker, collect digital scraps of information for later reading and action, but it piles up in the cloud, unread and unacted upon. My collection of […]
December 29, 2012
With the approach of every New Year, as we flip the calendar’s page from December to January, many of us start to rethink the way we do things. We start thinking about a way to reboot. We start thinking about ways to improve — our health, our relationships, our outlook on life, our work. As […]
November 5, 2012
Adapted from a post I originally wrote in January 2010. Up is not an easy direction. It defies gravity, both cultural and magnetic. – Capt. D. Michael Abrashoff, It’s Your Ship It takes a lot of power to escape the gravitational pull of all the stuff that tries to hold us back. It takes a lot to […]
October 16, 2012
Today is National Boss’s Day, and if you’re like me, you think of it as just another conspiracy by the greeting card, floral delivery, and bagel and cookie industries to get our hard-earned money. (I say this even though I’m very grateful for the carry-in luncheon my colleagues in the S&T communications department threw in […]
May 28, 2012
Today is Memorial Day, a federal holiday in the United States that was established (originally as Decoration Day) as a day of remembrance for those military men and women who died in service to their nation. But for many of us in the U.S., this day has turned into a sort of second Veterans Day […]
January 24, 2013
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