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Getting Creative Things Done

Cal Newport wrote a great post over at the 99percent, "Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard Thinking Into a Busy Schedule" Like Cal, I need to balance between getting things done (emails, meetings, eating, etc) and creative brainstorming. He calls us "to-do list creatives". To bad "most to-do list creatives cannot drop everything to spend…

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24 ways for the holidays

It's snowing outside in chilly Detroit for the first time this year as we kick off December and head into the Christmas (& more holidays) season. Another thing that mark's the coming of Christmas is 24 ways. 24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of…

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Staying Focused on Thanks

This week America celebrates the Thanksgiving holiday. How focused will you be on giving thanks on Thursday? An article from Mashable states that 50% of Americans admit to checking their work email on vacation days. Sadly, I'm one of those 50%. My excuse is that the internets are on 24 /7 so, I do need to…

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