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The Three Laws of Future Employment | Newgeography.com
Let’s start with the three Laws of Future Employment.

Law #1: People will get jobs doing things that computers can’t do.

Law #2: A global market place will result in lower pay and fewer opportunities for many careers. (But also in cheaper and better products and a higher standard of living for American consumers.)

Law #3: Professional people will more likely be freelancers and less likely to have a steady job.
advice  college  education  employment 
11 weeks ago by mwfogleman
Avoiding the blogger trap – Marco.org
As more people start realizing that there are better reasons to write blogs beyond trying to squeeze pennies out of ads, I bet we’ll see a significant movement toward tearing down these barriers. We’ll see more complete people blogging their whole lives, not just trying to emulate magazine columns or news sites. Some of them will get large audiences, but most won’t — and it won’t matter.
advice  blog  blogging  online  writing 
december 2011 by mwfogleman
Yes. Another Backup Lecture. | 43 Folders
The Holy Trinity
Seriously:
If it's not automated, it's not a real backup.
If it's not redundant, it's not a real backup.
If it's not regularly rotated off-site, it's not a real backup.
43folders  advice  backup  mac  osx 
november 2011 by mwfogleman
How to Become More Successful
Objectively speaking, successful people flock together. You really don’t see highly successful people all by themselves, surrounded by those who have a negative attitude towards success. The movers and shakers in any field tend to be friends and often hang out together.
advice  howto  lifehacks  stevepavlina  personal  motivation  entrepreneurship  work  psychology  gtd  inspiration  selfimprovement  growth  attitude  success  career  development 
july 2009 by mwfogleman
Lifehacker - The Long Weekend Comment Thread Is Here - open thread
Treat college as a 9-5 Job. Have breakfast at 8:30 and from 9-5 do nothing but school work. My roommate did this, and while we were up till all hours of the night doing homework, and studying he was out with the smart chicks, drinking and having fun.
college  advice  lifehacker 
may 2009 by mwfogleman
Lifehacker - How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done - Steve Wozniak
You'd better have the technology knowledge to do it. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas. You have to create a working model, something that you can show people and demonstrate that it works, and then you can start building a future for it.
lifehacker  interview  interviews  stevewozniak  woz  apple  hacking  business  advice 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
How to Craft Your Personal Business Model - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog
Making these decisions can be overwhelming–even if you’re a veteran. This past January, for the second time in my career, I abandoned a comfy full-time gig and jumped whole hog into a completely open calendar. Coming up on my last day as an employee, I couldn’t wait to be free again. I felt like queen of the world: I had potential clients offering me paid work, volunteer opportunities to dive into, a long list of new skills and technologies I couldn’t wait to teach myself, and a calendar full of free time. It felt great.
Then I spent my first day as a freelancer wrapped in a blanket, wide-eyed and paralyzed, wondering what in the world I’d gotten myself into. That didn’t feel great.
It was time to do some soul-searching. I picked up a notebook and pen and got to teasing out a bigger vision that would help me make sense of the smaller decisions. I was crafting my personal business model.
article  ginatrapani  business  branding  tutorial  businessmodel  blog  inspiration  freelance  webdesign  career  organization  advice  personal  best  strategy  freelancing  startups  designer 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media really works
So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products, hire people that represent the company well, and when your stuff is so awesome that friends share it with other friends, you may not even need "social media marketing" after all.
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april 2009 by mwfogleman
Overcoming Bias: Even When Contrarians Win, They Lose
If you want credit as an innovator then you should be conservative. Become prestigious in a conservative way, until late in your career. Reject non-standard views but not explicitly; just ignore them so your quotes won't bite you later. When the time is right, look around for ripe once-contrarian ideas and take one. Change the name and vary the methods and topics, grab the first few high profile resources, and trash the original contrarians as weirdos. If you instead want influence, then go ahead and be contrarian early in your career. You are still well advised to be radical in a conservative way, but know that influence is easier than it seems, even if credit is harder that it seems. Most important, know that the fact that few support your contrarian view says less than it might seem about how reasonable is your view. Most people prefer credit to influence, and credit-seekers are better off rejecting a non-standard view now and grabbing it later, should it succeed.
philosophy  science  life  blog  advice  social  society  innovation  humanity  academia  overcomingbias  influence  rationality 
january 2009 by mwfogleman
FreeRangeKids
Do you ever...
..let your kid ride a bike to the library? Walk alone to school? Take a bus, solo? Or are you thinking about it? If so, you are raising a Free Range Kid! At Free Range, we believe in safe kids. We believe in helmets, car seats and safety belts. We do NOT believe that every time school age children go outside, they need a security detail. Most of us grew up Free Range and lived to tell the tale. Our kids deserve no less. This site dedicated to sane parenting. Share your stories, tell your tips and maybe one day I will try to collect them in a book. Meantime, let's try to help our kids embrace life! (And maybe even clear the table.)
education  howto  lifehacks  culture  learning  security  free  interesting  inspiration  blog  article  cool  advice  children  blogging  kids  society  awesome  freedom  parenting  family  blogs  planning  baby  city  safety  urbanism  youth  urban  lifestyle 
december 2008 by mwfogleman
Tough Learning
The natural sciences have a reputation for posing special challenges to the way we think and learn: they are a form of “extreme thinking”. In this essay physicist Michael A. Nielsen discusses some of the challenges facing researchers in the natural sciences, and how those challenges shed light on other tough learning situation
reference  education  howto  lifehacks  productivity  tips  learning  philosophy  psychology  science  interesting  life  inspiration  advice  research  article  social  brain  creativity  ideas  articles  teaching  lifehack  essay  personal  thinking  motivation 
december 2008 by mwfogleman
Open Loops: Twelve Ways To Mark Up A Book
Use codes – Flag text with codes (e.g., Question marks to indicate disagreement, Exclamation marks to note agreement or to flag a strong statement, triangles to indicate a change in thinking, or a star for the topic sentence).
Write the passage topic in the margin as a reminder – Just a word or two.
Write questions in the margin – When you don’t understand something or when you don’t understand the author’s thought process on a particular topic, write the question in the margin as a reminder to settle the question.
Summarize – Add your own summary after the last paragraph. That simple exercise will crystalize your thinking on the topic. If you can’t write it, you don’t understand it.
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december 2008 by mwfogleman
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