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Write the book "Think, Try, Learn: A scientific method for discovering happiness"

Created by Matthew Cornell Apr 11, 2010 | Tags writing, books, author, Think, Try, Learn, ttl, Think Try Learn, happiness

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Overview I will write a book on the ideas that've been emerging for the last five years. It's part of the overall Think, Try, Learn vision of creating a book teaching the theory and practice, and a software platform for applying the ideas. I'll apply the writing techniques and philosophies that I come across that resonate. See experiment

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Matthew Cornell My next experiment in writing is to Write Fast, Write Sloppy. I tend to work over each sentence carefully, which I think is more like what I'll do during final polish and editing. My plan is to work through the mind map I created recently that has topics that are most on my mind, pick one that excites me, then blast out some words. I'll think of it more like the blog es... See more

5 days ago

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Matthew Cornell Spent yesterday and today's writing time organizing the possible topics, and setting up the process. Today I wrote on being skeptical about the book (unlike other self-help books). Also, I got a late start because of a higher priority (the Facebook Connect project). Fewer words than I hoped (423 instead of 950, and 5.49 wpm), but it's a start. Successful experimenting r... See more

4 days ago

reserve mornings for writing

Created by Matthew Cornell 19 days ago | Tags ttl, writing, Think, Try, Learn, book

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Overview I'll set aside at least three hours every morning during the week to write my book. (The "master" experiment is at http://edison.thinktrylearn.com/experiments/show/143) I'll keep my ass in the chair, except for breaks, the whole time. I'll do no other unrelated activity, including email, chat, and the web. See experiment

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Matthew Cornell Caught myself being tempted to do some errands during a break at 1.5 hours. The rule is a short break (say 10 minutes) just for bodily functions :-) I pause the timer during breaks because they don't count as "seat time." I'm really liking this routine.

I wish the # words/day were higher, but sometimes I have to stop and think about concepts. Today ... See more

18 days ago

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Matthew Cornell Finished my new chapter one! See: Write the book "Think, Try, Learn: A scientific method for discovering happiness" - http://edison.thinktrylearn.com/experiments/show/143

6 days ago

present TTL at Boston QS #3 Meetup Completed

Created by Matthew Cornell 29 days ago | Tags Think, Try, Learn, meta, presenting, public speaking, quantified self, powerpoint

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Overview I'll put together a 10 minute PowerPoint presentation of TTL ideas as they relate to my "Experiment-driven life" mini-manifesto (http://www.matthewcornell.org/2010/06/the-experiment-driven-life.html) at the Boston Quantified Self #3 meetup on Tue 2010-08-10, which gives me about three days total to prepare. The... See experiment

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Will Ware I gave this a little more thought and started to put something together. I can see a few places to apply these ideas so I'm going to try to find more time to develop this a little more. Here's what I've got so far.
http://snipplr.com/view/39690/puttering-with-a-proposal-for-a-web-api-for-numerical-data-sharing/
I didn't do a lot with data formatting yet, but I... See more

9 days ago

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Matthew Cornell Wow! I'll give it a serious look, and I'll ask our (very) part-time developer to look at it. I'm forging ahead figuring out how the quantitative data layer will work, and your ideas will be helpful. Thanks so much!

8 days ago

Design and Release Edison v1.2! Completed

Created by Matthew Cornell Apr 24, 2010 | Tags design, software, edison, agile, Think, Try, Learn, web 2.0, web, experiments, rapid iterations, ttl, meta

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Overview Lead the design and implementation of the next set of Edison features (see below). Since our wonderful Andy is busy, I'll need to find a Ruby on Rails person to augment the fabulous Edison team (Liza and Graham). Features:
o Replace Edison logo with attached (TM added)
o See design notes in attached spec. New t... See experiment

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Matthew Cornell Some important surprises and lessons learned during this process. I'm hopeful that we can get all features but the Facebook Connect released before next week.

Jul 08, 2010

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Matthew Cornell OK, I'm marking this completed, though the Facebook Connect feature will have to be added separately. I'll arrange that in the next week.

This experiment brings up the question of what's an experiment vs. what's a project. My first thought is that Edison is itself an experiment, but this release was not. But after further thought, this *was* an experiment due... See more

Jul 20, 2010

Design and Release Edison v1.0! Completed

Created by Matthew Cornell Oct 15, 2009 | Tags edison, Think, Try, Learn, web 2.0, software, web, experiments, Design, agile, rapid iterations

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Overview Design and release the final (for now) version of Edison. See experiment

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Matthew Cornell I'm liking the All Experiments layout. Follows the Facebook model - indented replies to the original experiment, in reverse chronological order (newest at bottom). Good thinking, everyone! Sorry I've been out of touch on the discussion.

Dec 05, 2009

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Matthew Cornell As an experiment I'm hooking up the All Experiments feed from edison.thinktrylearn.com to @thinktrylearn ;-) via twitterfeed.com @TTL! it's at http://twitter.com/thinktrylearn . let's see if this observation gets picked up...

Dec 23, 2009

Participate in a Ruzuku Gratitude Exercise "group challenge" Completed

Created by Matthew Cornell Oct 21, 2009 | Tags Think, Try, Learn, ruzuku, gratitude, group challenge, ttl platform

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Overview Try it for five days - http://ruzuku.com/group_challenges/1 See experiment

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Matthew Cornell Req: Delete comment.

Oct 21, 2009

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Matthew Cornell Req: RSS subscribe to comments and entries.

Oct 21, 2009

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