February 2009
14 posts
Productivity
Normally in the mornings I catch up on Twitter, Tumblr, Gmail, Bloglines, Hacker News and Stuff. They’re the essentials, I usually end up following a few links and surfing the web for the next hour.
This morning I didn’t have time for that. I got out of bed and headed straight down to campus for Course Confirmation. Course Confirmation was a traumatic experience, it involved much...
“Don’t be stuck in the mindset that you are “just” a student.”
– UniSurvival. This really irritates me. When I’m asked what I do I try to answer Web Producer or Internet Enthusiast. Sometimes it works, usually it doesn’t. As soon as I mention University most people can only see me as a student, anything else I do must be a side project or hobby...
DailyBooth.com →
I’ve heard about DailyBooth twice today in completely different contexts. It’s a site where you can post a photo of yourself every day (just like the Noah K Everyday project). My favourite part: you can have reminder emails sent to you each day. This would make completing the memes I discussed previously much easier to complete. Still, a certain level of narcissim is required to post...
Memes are hard work
I’m not sure what’s up with this one remarkable year meme. Well that’s a lie, I know exactly what it is. It involves posting one remarkable thing that happened to you each day. The thing is, posting every day requires a lot of effort. It’s even harder than the 365 days Flickr meme. I don’t think I could stand the pressure.
But I like the idea, so I’m going to...
Watch
lewisbostock:
‘You joke. But I never joke about my work’ said Lady Gaga to a British TV Host. And you may joke. Or laugh at me for being thoroughly besotted with her album.
But I’m convinced she’s a genuine artist. A former lyricist for The Pussycat Dolls and Britney Spears, Lady GaGa writes her own songs and designs her own clothes.
so take that, manufactured pop ‘artists’.
This is my...
“Numerous psychology experiments have found that when you try to “incentivize”...”
– Aaron Schwartz. Read the entire essay. This is why I’m extremely productive in the weeks leading up to an exam. I do the bare minimum amount of study but work really hard on everything else.
January 2009
11 posts
What I learnt from web failure →
My high school economics teacher/entrepreneur Kristin Savage started Availabuild while I was in his class. Now he’s written a (short) ebook, epic!
