Category: personal-development

Tips on Mini-Retirements from Tim Ferriss and JD Roth

How to Take a Mini-Retirement: Tips and Tricks from Timothy Ferriss is the first part of a two-part interview between JD Roth (of the excellent personal finance site, Get Rich Slowly) and he of 4HWW fame, Timothy Ferriss. There’s an apt quote in the interview on something I’m currently struggling with: The hardest part is…

04/06/2008
Fifty Habits of the Highly Successful

The newly renamed Stepcase Lifehack has put up a great article succinctly describing 50 habits that you can start to make yourself more successful and – I think – happy. Great advice, simply explained. Follow these and you can’t fail but improve your general well-being and productivity. Words of wisdom abound in Fifty Habits of…

12/05/2008
Online Lectures from Around the World

I’m a huge fan of the MIT Open Courseware site. Full of great material and insightful lectures, it helped me immeasurably when I decided to brush up on my Spanish. Thanks to the hive mind over at MetaFilter, a great list has now been produced linking to similar collections around the world. Check out the…

24/04/2008
Presentation Masterclass

LifeHack has just started what I hope will become an informative and useful series entitled Presentation Masterclass, courtesy of Rowan Manahan. Audiences are so deluged with advertising messages and radio jingles, with phone calls, voicemail, email, SMS and IM, with… stuff in their personal lives that unless you, the presenter, are wowing them with every…

03/04/2008
Y Combinator and Starting a Startup

Y Combinator is a seed-stage startup venture capital firm with a refreshingly novel outlook on venture capitalism. Their Startup Library provides a wonderful selection of links to stories, articles, and many other resources. Be careful; once you start thinking about going ‘startup’ you’re likely not to go back for a long, long time.

04/03/2008