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Your Perception Creates Reality (Or: the Case for Non-Fiction)

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve come to believe over the years that the way we experience the world is unavoidably filtered by our perception. To unbox that statement further, our brains can only process so much information about the world around us. Our perception is the lens with which we filter that information, and by extension, where we place […]

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How Slack is the Future of Community Management

Reading Time: 6 minutes I probably don’t need to detail Slack’s meteoric rise as a messaging app. This chart says it all:  (Chart removed, sadly) Their growth has been absurd. Millions of teams are using it across the world, and people are going crazy for it. It’s not hard to see why – it has everything you’d want in […]

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Zen and the Art of Pond Maintenance

Reading Time: 3 minutes I recently finished reading Robert Pirsig’s seminal work, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. One of the book’s core themes is the dissatisfaction everyone seems to share about the permeation of technology in our lives. Pirsig’s take on the subject (in a hyper-condensed form) is that we are so uncomfortable with technology in our lives […]

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Do Smartphones Affect Our Quality of Life?

Reading Time: 4 minutes So on Saturday, May 8th, when I lost my shiny new iPhone 6, I considered it a blessing in disguise. I saw it as a golden opportunity to turn myself into a guinea pig. I wanted see how my smartphone was really affecting my life, because I had a feeling it was bad. I set my hypothesis based […]

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Seeking the Holy Grail of Productivity

Reading Time: 5 minutes People often talk about “things that aren’t taught in school”: money management, fixing your car, et cetera. But there’s one thing that isn’t taught and no one mentions it, but is of just as crucial importance: productivity. Productivity, which is loosely defined as “stuff that gets done divided by time spent on stuff”, is the holy grail […]