Tracking reading: Goodreads to Beeminder
If you're into quantified self (e.g. digitally tracking your work, health, habits, whatever) you might have heard of Beeminder, which works as commitment device for following up on…
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Social Media 101: never use a photo of yourself as your cover photo
You already have the profile photo for that. I know that you're supposed to project yourself through you profile but try to find more ways to do this…
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Apple, Microsoft and battery-related scandals
People on the internet (or at least the ones that only read headlines) were outraged these last few days to find out that recent iPhones have a feature…
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Solving procrastination: I read this book so that you don't have to
Just finished Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change, by Timothy A. Pychyl. Dr Pychyl leads the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University (Ottawa,…
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These mails from Twitter sound kind of desperate
The bad (or good) thing about these kind of notifications is that it reminds me of a book on how social media (and other) apps/platforms use the science…
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Reminder, you're always giving information to Facebook
In case you were wondering how much information you're providing to Facebook's advertisers, there is a page for that. To access the page, you need to bump into…
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YouTube adds Contacts and Private Chat features
Every app/platform in today's world should have every feature possible so since you already have contacts/friends/connections in Facebook/Twitter/Google+/etc, you might as well have them in YouTube as well.…
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Tracking writing goals: Scrivener + Dropbox + Beeminder
I’ve been tempted to try out Beeminder's URLminder integration after their most recent blog post, and for added procrastinating fun time, I went out looking to make this…
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How to take a Multiple Intelligences assessment test
It's quite easy actually, just answer this online list of questions :) Dr. Howard Gardner, a professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education,…
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Be positive to be healthy to be positive
Positive emotions, positive social connections, and physical health influence one another in a self-sustaining upward-spiral dynamic. From a 2013 paper: The mechanisms underlying the association between positive emotions…
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