I once got an amusing phishing scam email informing me that someone has been trying to access my account from a foreign IP address and that I need to verify my information with them. Here’s an excerpt: “If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend your account.” […]
Time Auditing
The first step in taking control of your productivity is to know how you spend your time. Sometimes time just seems to “fly.” Time just slips away, and you can no longer account for all of it. It is where time auditing comes in. If you pay close attention to your time and track it, […]
Harnessing the Power of the Crowd
“Two heads are better than one” As the Internet penetrates into more and more households across the globe, it becomes easier to take advantage of the minds of many. Harnessing the contributions of the Internet community is called “crowdsourcing.” Every major website uses crowdsourcing, though some use it more than others. There is a potential to […]
Mentor Focus: Jason Zook
With the Internet and social media, almost anyone can be your mentor. They don’t even need to know you exist. Just pick a person whose work you admire and follow them on the Internet. In the Mentor Focus series, I profile the people I follow online. I first heard of Jason Zook years ago, when […]
Cooking with Books: Mama Dip’s Kitchen
While established cooks might scoff, cooking with recipes is the best way you can learn how to cook. All you have to do is find a recipe and follow the directions. Yes, you will make mistakes, but each time you work your way through a recipe you learn more about cooking. It is a […]
Best Websites for Recipes
For a cooking book to succeed these days, it has to be written by a celebrity or it has to be in a unique niche. With all the free recipe websites out there featuring thousands of recipes and vetted by amateur cooks at home, there is no place left on the market for general […]
Mentor Focus: James Altucher
With the Internet and social media, almost anyone can be your mentor. They don’t even need to know you exist. Just pick a person whose work you admire and follow them on the Internet. In the Mentor Focus series, I profile the people I follow online. My wife once asked me, “if you could have […]
The Key to a Lasting Marriage
Most people will tell you that the key to a lasting marriage is compromise. I agree. But it goes deeper than that. Compromise is just one component of a bigger attribute. I’ve been married for more than 13 years. We’ve had ups and downs. Let me tell you, compromise alone would not have kept our […]
Create Your Own Music Hall of Fame
I know most of you don’t care about what music anyone else listens to. You might not even listen to music. But this post is not really about the music I listen to. It’s more about the process I go through to discover new music. How I Listen to Music I used to have thousands of […]
Favorite Travel Apps
I bought my first iPhone back in 2009 because I thought it would be useful on an upcoming West Coast road trip. Since then, new apps and new capabilities have come along to make the iPhone an essential piece of travel gear. Here is a list of apps I currently use when I travel: […]