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Solo dad for two weeks New Experiment

Created by Matthew Cornell 6 days ago | Tags parenting, single parent

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Overview Starting tomorrow my wife is in Scotland for a two week excursion with her brother and niece. During that time I'll be taking care of my 9 year old daughter. This is a challenge because parenting is hard for me, I don't naturally enjoy it, and my relationship with my girl continues to be something I'm working on making b...

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Matthew Cornell There were some sweet surprises this weekend, two things my daughter said. "Daddy, you are actually pretty nice." And "I love you, Daddy"...

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Matthew Cornell Rough night last night. I took the opportunity to start a change (i.e., improve intellectually) in her TV watching habits and diet, which...

19 hours ago

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Matthew Cornell Today was good. Got in some biking (first after surgery!) so mood was probably better as a result. The afternoon and evening were fun bec...

5 hours ago

Use Post-it note techniques to organize book ideas

Created by Matthew Cornell 23 days ago | Tags writing, brainstorming, post-it notes, creativity

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Overview I need to organize my Think, Try, Learn book ideas, and I'm sick of using my text-based outliner. So to change it up I'll try using sticky notes on a wall. My two resources will be "Thinkertoys" and "Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes".

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Matthew Cornell Got discouraged thumbing through "Writing the Natural Way". Probably due to exhaustion from above experiment.

6 days ago

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Matthew Cornell Feeling better this morning. I now realize Rico's book is exactly what I need in this moment. The process: nucleus word -> clustering -> ...

5 days ago

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Matthew Cornell I continue to cycle on the process (spiral, really - I'm at a different place each time around). I worked this weekend pulling out the ma...

yesterday

To know how the next day will go before I go to bed. New Experiment

Created by Pedronius 4 days ago | Tags planning, sequencing, visualising

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Overview Set aside 20 minutes to lay out what I need for the next day and to write down any commitments in order before I hit the sack.

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Matthew Cornell I love it, Pedronius! Really interested to hear how this goes, and how your feelings compare to pre-experiment ones. Thanks for trying...

3 days ago

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Pedronius Cheers Matthew! All going well so far.. tomorrow's looking planned and one bottle of ale empty in the process.

2 days ago

Use Elance for a Commercial Programming Project New Experiment

Created by Brock Tice 5 days ago | Tags programming, outsourcing, elance, android

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Overview I have some programming projects on the back burner (i.e. Someday) that could yield commercial success if I ever had a chance to implement them. First among those is an Android app for doctors suggested by my wife. I'm going to try to get it done via Elance.

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Matthew Cornell I love it! Outsourcing can still make sense, given the pay discrepancy globally. My experience with Elance was successful - I found a Dru...

4 days ago

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Brock Tice Got 9 bids with amounts ranging from about 250 to 750. Working on some NDAs for providers that want more info for their quotes, then I'll...

3 days ago

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Matthew Cornell Great indications, Brock. People are hungry, which makes it a perfect time for your project. Surprise #1 so far? :-)

3 days ago

Push back on Tufts health insurance premium increases Completed

Created by Matthew Cornell 8 days ago | Tags health care, health insurance, executive compensation, health care crisis, corporations, corporate excesses, greed

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Overview Just as an experiment I'll call Tufts Health Plan to push back on why our premiums for this year have jumped ~$100/mo, after ~$300/mo last year. Insane! Basically I'll ask how the !@#$ this makes sense, given that most peoples' incomes have dropped. Topics: Executive compensation, profits, # members, and hiring.

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Matthew Cornell Was called back by a MBA principal (they're 50 people), and by the VP of Communications, who I said I had to call back. She listed lots o...

8 days ago

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Matthew Cornell Oh - Best I can tell, here's what James Roosevelt, Jr. (President and Chief Executive Officer) was paid ("excluding contributions to an ...

8 days ago

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Matthew Cornell OK, I spoke today for an hour with Tuft's VP of Communications. She admits the situation stinks, and says they are efficient. They're inc...

7 days ago

Extreme Batching - Intentionally Creating a Weekly "Vacation Tax"

Created by Brock Tice Dec 31, 2009

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Overview The idea of a "vacation tax" -- catching up on things that have piled up while away -- is now a common one. But wait, batching is good! It lets you focus on the task at hand and make gruntwork more efficient. Is it possible and beneficial to intentionally create a weekly backlog of things to batch? Maybe! I'm g...

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Brock Tice I'm starting to see (though I've been practicing as such for a while, I guess) that GTD is in practicality more of a framework or templat...

12 days ago

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Matthew Cornell That's surprising, Brock. I see it as totally comprehensive wrt workflow. I think the Doing phase is ultimately most challenging (which a...

11 days ago

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Brock Tice I mean, it is comprehensive w.r.t. workflow, but because everyone's workflow needs are different, the actual implementation may have to v...

7 days ago

Ping Completed

Created by Fredrik Jan 01, 2010 | Tags friends, social networking, business

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Overview I am going to spend some time per day "pinging" people. That is just contacting them to open the connection again and keep new connections alive.

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Fredrik I thought Edison worked perfect as the observations gets focused on my project it all provides possible new ideas. And of course also kee...

12 days ago

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Liza Cunningham Cool, thanks for the feedback. Great to have you as an early adopter!

12 days ago

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Matthew Cornell That's helpful feedback, Fredrik. I second Liza's thanks for jumping in early!

11 days ago

Run and Meditate First Thing

Created by Brock Tice Feb 04, 2010 | Tags fitness, meditation

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Overview Every weekday morning, I will meditate and run (running will slowly be ramped up from every other weekday to every day) before doing any of my other work.

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Brock Tice Not only that, but in this case poor tools cause knee and back pain! I knew the importance of good running shoes, having used them (and n...

17 days ago

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Brock Tice This is going well, but a variety of things have robbed me of sleep, plus work has been kind of erratic, making it hard to focus. Nonethe...

12 days ago

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Matthew Cornell I like the tripod idea - '3' is special. I suppose there are many wrt health. Diet, exercise, etc. I'd like to hear more about why you pi...

11 days ago

promote Where the !@#% did my day go?

Created by Matthew Cornell Sep 16, 2009 | Tags business, sales, e-books, ebooks

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Overview I'll test a number of methods to promote my guide. I will track each activity, how long I perform it, number of sales, then analyze effectiveness of each.

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Matthew Cornell Thanks to Brock for the AdWords tutorial, and for the Nudge ;-) Next week things will slow down and I'll be able to start my first ad. It...

13 days ago

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Brock Tice Oh, hey, you need to put commas between your tags.

12 days ago

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Matthew Cornell Got it - thanks! Still getting used to the system :-)

11 days ago

Work, Relationship, Fun Balance

Created by Liza Cunningham Dec 30, 2009 | Tags work, relationships, fun

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Overview Read some great advice that one has to find a balance between work, love and fun. All three should be 100%, otherwise we lean on one over the other causing imbalance. For me:

Work 100%
Relationships 100%
Fun 70%

So I definitely need to work on the fun balance. Every week I will try one ...

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Liza Cunningham Going for a hike today with a new friend. Its cold out, which is natural incentive to stay inside. But I know I will feel better if I get...

23 days ago

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Matthew Cornell I love that last bit - it changes the focus from product to process. I find the biggest obstacle is the one you mention: Getting out the ...

23 days ago

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Liza Cunningham I have the coming weekend all to myself, very exciting. I want to plan some fun new things. Might do a Saturday morning yoga class, and m...

14 days ago

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