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On dormant blogs and completing projects

I am currently ramping up to reinvigorate my blog / online presence / personal brand / social media strategy, etc. etc.

What you are seeing on my blog today is a temporary placeholder until I can officially “relaunch.”

I’ve recently moved to the East Coast (Somerville, MA) and have been doing some Big Thinking about where I’m going with my work, life, etc. Part of this is a renewed emphasis on ego-building online. It’s easier now than ever, and I’m really exhausted by seeing uninteresting people have all the fun.

However, as an antidote to my bad habits of taking on too many low-value projects and passive aggressively making the last 20% of ongoing projects drag on and on, I have been trying to implement Cal Newport’s idea of a completion-centric productivity.

Rearranging the deck chairs

Summary

testing an aside

here’s an aside

interface sketch

Expressive Technology

From an email I just sent out:
“I’m building a robotic marionette (see http://www.delamaquina.com). The couple times I’ve shown it off in public, it is fascinating to watch reactions — first, people notice this creepy puppet moving around… then inevitably, their eyes travel up the strings and see this machine with spinning pulleys and wires. They [...]

Meeting edict and energy vacuums

As a freelancer, I often get a feeling of isolation when working on projects; sometimes this leads to a lack of accountability (i.e. peer pressure). I miss more, however, the riffing and brainstorming that happens when people willingly get together, share ideas, and are genuinely interested in each others’ (or the collective) success. (and it has to be face-to-face… virtual meetings can’t replicate the energy building of a good brainstorming session).

Lazyweb Script - make a url / bookmark review taskmaster

I’m Reviewing a whole bunch of urls in a long txt file of collected urls and bookmarks.
Will somebody please create a program or script that randomly selects 5 items from a list of urls, offers them up for quick editing (or rejection) and then opens them in browser — alternatively, just cull n entries from [...]

Minor fixes to site

Some minor wordpress tweaks
* Fixed odd format on permalink pages
* Fixed double “Tag: Tag:”

Manchester Airport Has Free, Public Wireless

It’s not really on the way to or from anything, but FYI: Manchester, NH airport has free, public wireless (not open - one nag/term page to click through).
About 6 weeks ago, I found that I could grab wireless from Cincinnati airport, but alas, this was locked up under some Bell ISP. I did see [...]