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Capsul8 – Preview for Productivity501 Readers
When you get a newspaper, you can cut out an article and come back and read the same thing later. It doesn't change after you read it. The web isn't like that. The article you read today, may not be around tomorrow or the version that is here tomorrow may be very different from what you have today. Capsul8 is a startup that solves this problem by giving you a simple way to take a snapshot of a web page and collect these snapshots into a "capsule" where each web page is a different … [Read More...]
Effort vs. Ability
Scientists did an experiment with a bunch of children where they gave them several tests that got increasingly more difficult. After the first two tests, they told the children that they had done very well. Group A was praised them for being smart and talented. Group B was praised for their hard work. Next they gave them a very difficult test--so difficult that many children didn't get a single question right. They then told both groups that they hadn't done as well on this test … [Read More...]
Christmas Gift Ideas
Christmas is coming soon so I thought I'd do a few posts with gift ideas based on things I've used this year and found to be exceptionally useful and or fun. Here is the first post and I'll try to do a few more as I think of ideas and have time to write about them. If you have suggestions, please add them in the comments. You might be able to suggest the perfect gift that another reader hadn't though of. Fingerless Gloves Fingerless Gloves ~ $3.50 My office is in the walk-out … [Read More...]
LifeRemix Announcements
Productivity501 is a member of LifeRemix--a network of bloggers who are all focused on enriching people's lives in one way or another. Everyone has been pretty busy writing books, starting podcasts, and creating courses. Here are four of those projects ranging from a free manifesto PDF to a paid course on living without clutter. The Tower Chris Guillebeau from The Art of Non-Conformity has released a new manifesto called The Tower. You might be familiar with his previous Brief Guide … [Read More...]
Development
Discrimination Against the Unemployed
A reader named Susan left an interesting comment on Never Hire an MBA. She doesn't like the article, but what … more
Productivity
Aversion to Change
Across the country, state and federal funding is being cut for education and this has left many communities … more
Money & Finances
Setting Goals and Making Them Visible
When I was in high school, I wanted to get a computer. Computers weren't nearly as inexpensive as they are now days. … more
