Tag: lists
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User Experience Design Tips
Inspired by Matthew Frederick’s enlightening book 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, Shane Morris and Matt Morphett started 101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School. After a promising start the site halted prematurely with a measly nineteen entries to it’s name. Those that do exist are not all fantastic, but there are some gems that are…
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Assorted Health and Fitness Tips from a Veteran Trainer
After years as a trainer, Mike O’Donnell compiles and shares an extensive list of health and fitness tips. As Jason said, there’s “a lot of good (and questionable) stuff in this list”. Here are my favourites: Diet is 85% of where results come from… for muscle and fat loss. Many don’t focus here enough. If…
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MacLeod on Entrepreneurship
Hugh MacLeod shares a list of random thoughts on being an entrepreneur–a simple list of twenty-six inspirational titbits on business, positioning and success. My favourite five: In a world of over-supply and commodification, you are no longer paid to supply. You’re being paid to deliver something else. What that is exactly, is not always obvious.…
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Rules of a Gentleman
I imagine Ryan Evans‘ The Rules of a Gentleman may, at one point, overlap slightly with the fantastic 1001 Rules for My Unborn Son (previously). I’m fine with that. I’m also fine with this one getting a book deal, too. No. 10: Personal notes should always be hand written. No. 26: Items that shouldn’t match =…
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Fiction-Writing Rules, from Fiction Writers
Inspired by Elmore Leonard’s lauded book of the same name, Ten Rules of Writing, The Guardian asks a selection of 28 authors (from Margaret Atwood to Will Self) for their ten rules of writing for the aspiring fiction author (part two). Elmore Leonard’s ten are included, and he summarises them with the following: My most important rule…
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Why We Make Lists
One of the current exhibitions being held in the Musée du Louvre, Paris has been curated by author and consistent top intellectual, Umberto Eco. The Infinity of Lists, as the exhibition is called, looks at the human fascination with lists and how they have progressed cultures. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It…
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100 Tips for Providing Perfect Restaurant Service
Bruce Buschel–author, co-creator of a musical, director and producer–is opening a seafood restaurant in New York. In his Small Business column for The New York Times he offers 100 tips to ‘restaurant staffers’ (waiting staff) on how to behave front of house (that’s the first 50 tips; here are the second 50). I (unexpectedly) found myself agreeing with…
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Ten Internet Laws
You’ve definitely heard of at least one of them and maybe even laughed, groaned or plain ignored a few others. To help along that process Tom Chivers presents ten laws of the Internet: Godwin’s Law “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” […] It is closely…
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On Good and Bad Managers
Charisma, confidence and being vocal are key to being perceived as a leader, Time suggests after summarising some research on what makes people persuasive leaders. Social psychologists know that one way to be viewed as a leader in any group is simply to act like one. Speak up, speak well and offer lots of ideas,…
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Preventing and Rethinking Black Swans
On my recent travels to eastern Australia I was lucky enough to see a black swan. This got me thinking of the other type of black swan—specifically, two items I’ve read in the recent past: Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (via Kottke, pdf): What is fragile should break early while…