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6
Feb 10

Pardon My Dust (On Many Levels)

After what feels like decades of neglect, I’m happy to say I’ll be returning to occasional 53tabs posting this week.

Easy tiger: no promises on volume one way or another. Still the same slacker; just trying a little harder, y’know? Exactly.

Oooo, shiny

Anyhow, I’m tweaking or adding a few site features over the next few days.

So, bear with me, and thanks – both in advance and in retrospect – for your patience with me. This week I shall mercilessly pound my Wordpress install with a very large crescent wrench until interesting words fall out and land with a productive THUD in your RSS reader. Fingers crossed.

[Also, “Hi.” I’ve missed you.]

Clutter / Distractions / Inspiration / Self Help — 1 Comment
12
Mar 09

to make a change

Two stories that I know I should be learning from:

  • Paul Graham on overcoming distractions. By creating an Internet-Only computer.
    Quote:

    I now leave wifi turned off on my main computer except when I need to transfer a file or edit a web page, and I have a separate laptop on the other side of the room that I use to check mail or browse the web. (Irony of ironies, it’s the computer Steve Huffman wrote Reddit on. When Steve and Alexis auctioned off their old laptops for charity, I bought them for the Y Combinator museum.)My rule is that I can spend as much time online as I want, as long as I do it on that computer. And this turns out to be enough.

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