The Information Diet | Tools for going on an Information Diet

Going on an information diet? Here’s a list of tools to help you get started.

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This is short list of things that helped me and might help you too.
prog21: Recovering From a Computer Science Education
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engineer and designer need to party more… together.
Rands In Repose: A Design Primer for Engineers
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Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity; gilt in Gorilla Glass and cadmium. And in them we find entertainment in lieu of happiness, and exchanges in lieu of actual connections.
Mat Honan — Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter (via minimalmac)
(Reblogged from minimalmac)
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Getting an $80 Kindle 4 and pairing it with an Instapaper Subscription will revolutionize your reading of web content.
Instapaper on the Kindle - David Smith

AaronMahnke: Frictionless Writing

aaronmahnke:

I’m big on the idea of removing “friction” from my life. Friction, if you haven’t heard me talk about it before, is anything that gets in the way of, or prevents us from reaching, a goal.

This writing advice can be applied to any field.

(Reblogged from aaronmahnke)

Seth's Blog: The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer

your goal is to be the first thing people do when they start their day.

You mean we shouldn’t spend the first 4 hours of our day mindlessly checking Facebook/Twitter/Email/Blogs?

Darn! 

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I only count the number of hours I work a week when I want those hours to be over.

Twitter / @rands: I only count the number of …

So true.

A Year in Reading — and Scribbling - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

This is how books should be read.

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I prefer conviction driven, not calendar focused moves.
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