Author: Lloyd Morgan
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Men’s Style
Omiru focuses on “real style for real people”. Coming in 46th place on Times’ 50 Best Websites of 2008, for people like me (the perpetually unfashionable) the Men’s section of Omiru is a Godsend. I know that it’s not entirely possible to have a 10-item-only wardrobe, but what 10 items do you think could make…
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Books on Behaviour, Irrationality, & Economics
I’m struggling to separate the wheat from the chaff in this list of books. I just know that hidden within some there must be a treasure trove of knowledge. The problem is: in which? Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions The Black Swan: The…
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A Guide for Learning Foreign Languages (Resources)
Latin was probably the single most useful subject I was taught in school. I despised it at the time, but now I have come to realise its importance and many applications–the greatest of which is how it has helped me learn other languages. In learning languages (although none to fluency… yet) I have found the…
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Independent Budget Travel and Round-the-World Backpacking Trips
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain Travel Independent thinks it has “everything you need to…
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Using Cognitive Bias: Politics and Policy
You may have noticed that I’ve recently been fascinated by everything cognitive bias. With the release of Nudge—a book looking at how politicians around the world are using cognitive bias—the general public are now going to be hearing about it a lot more too. The Times has a nice case-study where the theories are used…
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How to Write a Business Plan
BBC Business’ How to Write a Business Plan has some sound advice for that basic business plan. However, being written by a multi-national corporation, I had an inkling that it wasn’t going to be very—I hate saying this—Web 2.0, so I went to the usual suspects. This Ask Y Combinator thread has some good advice…
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Bill Gates on Windows Usability
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been scouring Microsoft’s internal emails (released through various law suits) looking for an insight into Gates’ personality and to get a picture of his role at the top of Microsoft. From this epic email rant, it is obvious that even Gates himself isn’t immune. I am quite disappointed at how Windows…
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Times’ 50 Best Websites of 2008
Time has just released the results of its 50 ‘best’ websites of 2008 vote. Present are many you would expect, but there are a few surprising entries too. The top 5: Penny Arcade Gaia Online Kongregate GasBuddy Free Rice via Mind Hacks
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Being Creative with gapingvoid
You may know gapingvoid from Hugh MacLeod’s “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards“. Now he’s telling us How To Be Creative. So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever. Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years: You are responsible for your own experience. Everybody…