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I have a routine that keeps me productive. Basically, I get to work the same time most days, even drinking coffee at the same time and such, as well as taking breaks at the same time.

It's a little repetitive but it works great to keep me productive as I'm self-employed.

This is very cool.

But, to be honest, I’m not that impressed. I can’t recall ever studying more than 3 hours for a test (usually about 2 hours) and just graduated an Ivy League college with an ~A average.

Now I did usually start studying 2 weeks or so in advance in multiple 20 minute sessions. I did so because last minute cramming doesn't work for me, but it did result in high grades with not so much total time spent.

This post is very insightful.

To break down what it says, and offer my own thoughts, often, the path to doing something at first challenging is: thought -> action -> habit, belief/better life or outcome.

Achievable steps is also key. Trying to rush the process and immediately reach the endpoint results in frustration.

So, "I want to learn to swim" => Spend 15 minutes practicing => Spend 15 minutes practicing 3 times a week... and so on, gradually ramping up is likely to work, while, "I want to learn to swim" => 3 practices weekly of 1 hour is likely to fail, in my experience.

This is some great advice.

I'd add the tried and useful technique of having your first email be purely relationship creating: say, respond to a recent post with a useful thought, or point out a minor bug somewhere on the site

Having sent a decent bunch of emails to bloggers, I've also noticed that smiley faces increase response significantly, but using them makes me feel a bit cynical, so I usually don't ;-)

Last I checked, and this was 6 months ago, there isn't really a comparable ad service to AdSense in terms of quality. Nothing else I've seen manages to serve such targeted, high quality ads.

That said, you can make good money from other approaches like affiliate marketing, products, and so on.

I've been doing SEO for 4 years (with some success) and this may be the first time I heard that private registration is bad for search results.

I'd figure out how to make it look higher end. It's nice, but it feels like a low-end site, imo. See http://www.saksfifthavenue.com for how a high end clothing store looks. Good luck!

I had something similar happen to me.

It took a while, but I've come to realize that affiliate/product marketing can make a lot more money. Think about your audience, can you sell them a book explaining how to do something, and what existing affiliate products like those on Clickbank could you sell them?

No, there are many, many strains of HIV virus. One person's infection evolves into a wide variety of strains during an infection due to immune system pressure.

I've written a lot of articles in the health field (around 200), and, iirc, the efficacy data for therapy of psychoanalysis and CBT is similar, actually, again, now that I think about it, iirc, any psychological type of therapy (within reason) is roughly as effective as the other.

As such, from the insurer's side, which is preferable: one that lasts something like 12 weeks and has limited amount of sessions, or one that lasts years and can have 4 sessions a week?

People need to feel listened to, cared for, important - in one form or another.

I've found some good designer/developers through freelance sites like Guru and Elance and even Craigslist.

My trick, if it is one, is to put a human face on my postings. I share a little about who I am, a young entrepreneur trying to do something cool.

This usually helps get 1 or 2 posts that are by someone whose a good match and it usually goes well from there.

Hehe =)

That said, a software system which sorts and analyzes customer complaints based of language recognition could provide a lot of value.

Having it send automated, keyword based responses, probably not the best idea, though.

Yes! I think there's a danger of becoming addicted to ways to be more productive. Arguably, someone who daily reads a productivity blog should be producing a lot, but you might wonder if that is the case...

It needs some graphics and touching up to look nicer.

The very popular style for this type of website is to have the Your personalized view of the programming world and sections underneath in a highlighted box with the other elements, Use your personal posts-filter, etc, as small, clickable boxes underneath.

See: http://tweetingmachine.com/ (not the best example, but first one I can think of)

hope that helps, cheers

This is the type of breakthrough idea that you look at and wonder why you didn't come up with it.

This could really help fight the rising incidence of 3-D media watching associated dysphoria.

This is fairly blatant self promotion. That said, these are really good ideas.

Decomposing a task into what needs to be done to do it is really effective.

Interesting. While you may or may not agree with the .XXX domain, it seems that we are going to be getting a lot of new domain extensions. The new gTLD process is going to allow a lot more applicants in the next year or so.

I've been working on niche ecommerce sites. It seems like an interesting area. If you can get 10,000 visits a month who are highly targeted you should in theory be able to make decent revenue.

This has almost no value. This basically says that a proposed vaccine has shown some signs of efficacy in animal models and has not even been tested yet in humans as to whether or not it is safe.

In the field of AIDS, vaccine development has been tragically hard.

Very funny. Still, when Leonardo says he can paint as well as anyone, it's true, while I doubt you are the world's expert in network administration.

I've learned (well, maybe) the hard way that if you say stupid things, it damages relationships. Now the reason one might keep doing so is that usually it's a lot more fun to say questionable things...

Alas. But yes, you have to be very careful with what you say. It's many times harder to overcome a negative impression than to create a positive one.

I'm having a hard time with the line, each detail was hand-painted.

Most paintings have this feature.

Maybe I'm not average, but I've used around 2-3 photo sharing services in the past 5 years.

This article is very helpful, but in all honesty, I think the formula is slightly more valuable than the picture. They're both essential, of course, but the formula is really the key to understanding the concept.

This is said, of course, from the vantage point of someone who has studied calc with 3 variables and so on, so may not have the fresh perspective.

have you considered listing in the Amazon kindle? it's not too hard to do.

if you don't mind my asking, how did you go about promoting anynewbooks? looks very interesting.

Well it makes sense. Senior management positions and positions running companies all require one thing.

That you can tell other people what to do and that they'll do it.

By definition, an introvert is significantly less likely to be able to do this.

A tough lesson I've learned is most people simply don't care. They don't wish you bad but they don't wish you well that much either - they simply don't care.

This isn't a good or bad thing; it's just most people, the vast majority of the time, don't particularly care about what you're up to.

Long term friends do, of course, at least a little, but in perhaps limited doses.

This is both saddening and inspiring (liberating), depending on how you look at it.

Bad juju to post something that is widely read about how you promoted hundreds of thousands of times the illegal distribution of a book.

I've done a lot of SEO and this really nails it. But my own form of the very most important rule of SEO is slightly different.

It is, "Build links to content that people will want to link to."

The reason for this different wording is that in my experience, you can have highly linkable material, but without a critical mass of attention, it will get limited results.