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• The Multitasking Virus and the End of Learning? Part 1 | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
  A recent study at The British Institute of Psychiatry showed that checking your email while performing another creative task decreases your IQ in the moment 10 points. That is the equivalent of not sleeping for 36 hours—more than twice the impact of smo
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• The Multitasking Virus and the End of Learning? Part 2 | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss#more-359#more-359
  I had to let go of a life’s work and start over. It wasn’t until I left chess behind and became a beginner again, meditating, studying philosophy and psychology, and ultimately taking on my second discipline, Tai Chi Chuan, that I began to regain a fe
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• Coding Horror: It’s Clay Shirky’s Internet, We Just Live In It
  Media is actually a triathlon, it ’s three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share.
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• Utterly failing your users
  “It is not the user’s job to tell you about errors in your software”
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• Ask 37signals: How do you say no? – (37signals)
  Most of all, being clear, direct, and honest is the best policy. Don’t string a potential customer along. Don’t make promises you can’t keep. Just be clear and set realistic expectations. Telling someone yes when you really mean no is a recipe for a
  (tags: software development programming)

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