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Talk To Me—Client Meetings Without Technology Getting In The Way

01.17.2011 Business

Last week I spent two days at a client’s headquarters, conducting a series of interviews with top managers in their key areas. I was once again reminded of something very important: keep the technology off the table. My business is writing, but the first step is asking questions and listening. It’s tempting to recreate your [...]

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Simple Productivity Tip Of The Day: Clean Your Closet Before You Make Your List

12.20.2010 gadgets

This may be too late for this year, but here’s a tip that can help you be more productive and reduce the clutter that weighs you down: before you make that list of things you want for Christmas or a birthday, clean out the most cluttered part of your home or office. When it’s that [...]

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Makers: The New Amish

11.16.2010 Future

I recently read the iFixit Repair Manifesto. It was inspired by the Maker’s Bill of Rights. Both of these documents and the movements that embrace them have me very conflicted. I applaud most of what both claim and aspire to. I love tinkering with things and people who can build and create from existing products [...]

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Apple Kills The CD, But Portable, Offline Media Is Still Important

10.27.2010 Future

Apple is once again the harbinger of death to what is currently a ubiquitous technology. They’ve done it to the floppy disc and now they are doing it to the CD. Is kill too strong a word? I think not. When Apple (and by Apple I mean Steve Jobs) takes a dislike to something, few [...]

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Forty Minutes With My Daughter – Why Facetime Is The First Consumer Videoconferencing That Works

09.27.2010 Family

I had two video conferencing experiences this week. One was exceptionally bad and the other was seamlessly wonderful. It led me to recall my experiences over the years with video conferencing and to think about where they’re going. I’d used commercial video conferencing systems for years. Most of them have been the very expensive (hundreds [...]

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