- How to be remarkable #130: Tell honest stories (to fix your company, startup, yourself and your job)
The Bizarro Storytelling Exercise gets its name from Bizarro, the comic book villain, and it is about using honesty to get a clear idea about your situation. While storytelling has long being championed as a problem-solv…
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- Will the popularity of diesel cars in India cause a cancer epidemic?
A WHO (World Health Organization) reports says diesel fumes are more carcenogenic than secondhand cigarette smoke. It says diesel exhaust may be a possible cause of bladder cancer.
Diesel exhaust is now in W.H.O.’s G…
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- How to remarkable #129: rebuild your own brain
A part of Barbara Arrowsmith-Young's brain was not functioning properly so she developed a series of cognitive exercises to develop it. As of now, she and her team have created cognitive exercises that help improve 19 di…
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- How to use your mobile (and mobile apps) to make money
If you are not a mobile app developer, then this how you can use mobile apps to make money:
Apps that help you work for money
Field Agent - As “agents” you use your phone to provide photos, scan barcodes, verify loca…
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- Making money from your voice: The future is in doing narration
Professional announcers, speech pathologists, broadcasters and actors are not only ones who make money from their voice. Doing narration is becoming a promising vocation if you learn to modulate your voice through some v…
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- How to be remarkable #128: Fight for your internet rights (digital bill of rights)
The people fighting the draconian SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) have just come out with a "Digital Bill of Rights".
1. The right to a free and uncensored Internet.
2. The right to an open, unobstructed Internet.
3. Th…
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- How to remarkable #127: Self-publish a book
Self-publishing needn't be a domain exclusive for people lusting after vanity. Many useful and interesting books have been published by self-publishers when traditional publishers haven't understood the viability of thei…
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- Why you shouldn't pay attention to political news on TV anymore: It is an echo chamber for assholes
Dave Winer gets it right about the nature of most political news on Television:
What passes for political discourse these days is basically "Did you hear what that asshole said!" Followed by whatever the asshole said.
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- Big companies are taking over the internet, redux
The relentless march of big companies (who would like to call themselves people now) over muchy of the internet continues. Sample these two news items: Item #1: Twitter's new 140 characters+ tweets can be huge, with pict…
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- Nicholas Carr on dead-but-getting-richer celebrities
Or, at least their greedy families:
I think it was Nietzsche who said that what kills you only makes you stronger in the marketplace.
Next: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping, electronics, appliances, home services…
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- How to be remarkable #126: Learn to ignore (the unnecessary)
Scott hanselman says a solution to this age of information (mostly useless) flood (sounds better than overload) is that 'It’s Not What You Read; It’s What You Ignore. ' He appears to be pointing us to the 80:20 rule (foc…
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- How to be remarkable #125: Read novels (it makes you a better person)
Researchers at Dartmouth and Ohio State universities suggest that reading fiction can actually make you better people, expplaining that more you identify with fictional characters on the page, the more you will try to ac…
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- The best 19 bits of advice for young people and new graduates I ever read
Google 'commencement address' and you will find many interesting things that are meant to inspire young people on their way to the jungle called life. Most are around the same idea: be prepared for anything. Some, like V…
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- Aaron Sorkin's five main pieces of advice for young people
Aaron Sorkin, the filmmaker who has made a career out of making movies about glib, fast-talking jerks (Zuckerberg for example), recently gave the commencement address at Syracuse University. and he at last spoke some s…
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- Three main career ideas from The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
Reid Hoffman (co-founder of LinkedIn), and Ben Casnocha (famous for being a very young Silicon Valley Entrepreneur) wrote this book, where the main idea is a little stale: 'manage your career as if it were a start-up bus…
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- 9 ways to ask 'why'
'Why'is what human civilization possible. We asked questions. We had dounts. So, we asked 'Why'But, now, in this 21st century, a blogger asks 'Why ask why?' And thus came the 9 ways to ask 'why':
1. Why does it work…
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- 3 important lessons for bloggers from Freedom Is Blogging In Your Underwear
Hugh Macloed, who wrote Freedom Is Blogging In Your Underwear is a blogging/creative hero. He showed that if you cared about your innovative ideas (and had some talent), you should stick to it, and ultimately you will ma…
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- 21 ways to make money online (not the ways you think)
This article is not about usual 'make money online' tips. Rather, it is about being prepared for a long, sincere haul, written by an old hand at writing at writing pithy advice posts.
1. The first step is to stop Googli…
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- Lessons from Valve's Flatland Rules: No hierarchies, No forced project work
Game development company Valve has made available its handbook for employees free for others to see. In short, the handbpok says, Welcome to Flatland - no hierarchies. Now, there are two ways of seeing at Valve's employe…
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- Mcdonalds' Happy Meals Toys are only a marketing tool to exploit kids' immature brains
Modern advertising makes sure the devil gets inside your house in a shiny packaging. Take Mcdonalds' happy Meals Toys, for example. Here's what a mother in Caifornia, Monet Parham, who is suing Mcdonalds over the toys is…
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