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Creative People Say No — Thoughts on creativity — Medium

Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

ACE Sponsored Research Study: Kettlebells Kick Butt

“You don’t really do resistance training expecting to get an aerobic capacity benefit, and you don’t do resistance training and expect to improve your core strength, unless of course you’re specifically doing core-strengthening exercises. But with kettlebells you’re able to get a wide variety of benefits with one pretty intense workout.”

Driving a car can cost $10,000 per year - Jennifer Waters's Consumer Confidential - MarketWatch

Inbox Zero for Life – Keith Rarick

Quick email triage using gmail web interface. I’ve never really used mute (m) before. Learn something new everyday ;)

Data Science Emerges as New Discipline - The CIO Report - WSJ

the best data scientists tend to be physicists and other scientists. “Physicists have a strong mathematical background, computing skills, and come from a discipline in which survival depends on getting the most from the data. They have to think about the big picture, the big problem. When you’ve just spent a lot of grant money generating data, you can’t just throw the data out if it isn’t as clean as you’d like.

kung fu grippe

… contrary to popular opinion, it’s absolutely not about spending hours of your precious day trying to achieve that empty inbox at any cost. That’s just monkeyballs.

You Cannot Yell at a Board with Stickies on It | Personal Kanban

What we have here is not necessarily a failure to communicate but instead, a confluence of avoidance behaviors exacerbated by a lack of a visual control.

Reflections on OmniFocus 2, The Setup, and The Future | Using OmniFocus

In the course of creativity, one needs to be able to play, and play needs to be able to head off in odd or unknown directions, explore, discover, question, and gleefully make many mistakes. All of this needs time to be guided and developed to become anything resembling meaningful work.