Letters Remain

Category: personal-development

  • 20 Things Everyone Needs to Know

    I’m usually quite sceptical about similar lists, but The Independent‘s 20 Things Everyone Needs to Know struck me as actually useful as each list item is authored by a professional who works in that field. And when you’ve got an article co-authored by the likes of Donald Trump, Jennifer Capriati and Larry King, how can…

  • Tim Ferriss Interview

    This interview between Tim Ferriss and Derek Sivers—the entrepreneur who founded CD Baby—concentrates on The 4-Hour Workweek and provides a good recap and overview of the concepts. The following quote, however, feels more relevant to me now as it was when I originally read the book: To learn anything quickly, I approach people who did…

  • More Top Productivity and Personal Development Blogs

    Primarily an advert for a new “community search tool” (the author’s custom Google search), this blog post turns into an impressive list of the top productivity and personal development blogs in the following categories: Personal Growth/Productivity (e.g. Life Optimizer) Career/Personal Branding (e.g. Brazen Careerist) Lifestyle Design/Travel (e.g. Real Social Dynamics) Generation-Y Issues (e.g. Employee Evolution)…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Knowing When To Quit

    The Intrepid Mompreneur left a big law firm after 3 years to launch her own business; has left a marriage with two kids; and walked away from her own million dollar a year law business. Now she’s telling us how to know when it’s time to leave: The pain of staying is greater than the…

  • The Flynn Effect and Our Declining IQs

    The Flynn Effect is the gradual rise of the average IQ over generations, and the reason why IQ tests are periodically renormalised to reset the average to 100: an average IQ in our generation equals a higher than average IQ a generation or two beforehand. Or does it? According to new research it appears that…

  • Purging Book Clutter

    Last week I moved house. During the move I took stock of my belongings in my ongoing battle with clutter and discovered that more than half of my boxes contained books… and that’s after I gave a box or two of books to a good home a month before! The emotional attachement that is made…

  • Top 50 Productivity Blogs

    The Top 50 Productivity Blogs is one of those lists that I love to hate. It’s so useful and contains a wealth of extraordinary resources, but at the same time will temporarily ruin my productivity as I scour through the archives of the mentioned blogs looking for said resources. Getting Things Done (e.g. Zen Habits)…

  • 52 Proven Stress Reducers

    I’m always a bit wary when I see a list such as this, but these 52 Proven Stress Reducers are all worth reading. Common sense, of course, but it’s always nice to be reminded. Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning. The inevitable morning mishaps will be less stressful. Prepare for the morning the…