Author: Lloyd Morgan
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Must Read Daily
Wondering what the hot topic of the day is? Wonder no more, with Must Read Daily: Wish you could get the one article everyone’s talking about e-mailed to you every morning? Welcome to Must Read Daily, a daily text-only e-mail list. Every weekday morning, we promise to send you the most important article in a…
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Seth Godin’s Author Advice
As the author of a number of influential marketing books, Seth Godin knows what he’s talking about when it comes to writing and marketing a book. Advice for authors is a list of his top 19 tips. Lower your expectations. The happiest authors are the ones that don’t expect much. The best time to start…
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Uncruel and Unusual Punishment
When three young girls caused $30,000 worth of damage to Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy’s mansion, instead of involving the authorities he decided on his own unusual punishment. “I tried to be lenient with them but wanted to punish them,” Cathy said. “I wanted to show them there was a better way than the way they…
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The Meaning of Our Food Preferences
I love reading about food-related psychological studies and this one on how our eating preferences are influenced (by our personal values, the food’s cultural meaning, and its physical appearance) is no exception: How we feel about a sausage […] says more about our personal values than about what the sausage actually tastes like. A large…
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Letting Go of Love
Worldly advice from Ask MetaFilter. How do you let go of love? […] For an added level of difficulty, this is a relationship that you don’t really have any bad memories of, so you can’t use those to change the direction of your thoughts. One piece of advice from me? Originally written as advice on…
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Busy? Movies and Books in a Minute
Don’t have the time to watch that new film or read that classic book? Got a minute? Movie-a-Minute Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles (1941) Orson Welles: Rosebud. (dies) Reporter: What does it mean? Everybody Else: We don’t know. THE END Book-a-Minute The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby: Daisy, I made all this…
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Interview with a Self-Trepanner
Self-trepanation seems the realm of low budget horror films and historic medical literature. However Neurophilosophy has a transcript of an interview with a recent self-trepanner. M: How exactly did you perform the trepanation? HP: I used a hand trepan initially, but that wasn’t proving to be terribly successful. Then there was a problem with the…
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The Smartest (Financial) Advice
When 40 finance greats are asked for the best financial lessons they ever learned, you’re sure to learn something. But who wants to trawl through 40 separate pages to get to all that advice (apart from me)? Stocks build wealth – with no work Don’t follow the herd Do what you love Know where your…
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Moving from Digital to Analogue
The back-to-paper trend is gaining momentum, and Bill Westerman recently joined the movement; Getting Sh-t Done is his beautifully described analog productivity method. An example of his system can seen on flickr.
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100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
In a different take on the book list ‘genre’, Martin Seymour-Smith’s 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written doesn’t list the books the author believes are ‘best’, but which have been the most influential. The list is ordered chronologically, and there are some novels present. I’ve read an embarrassingly small amount of these.