Month: November 2013


  • How to be more satisfied at work in 2 easy steps

    Want to increase your satisfaction with your work?

    Try this!

    Step 1: Think of something someone did for you at work.

    Step 2: Thank them for it personally to their face, verbally on the phone, or in writing.

    Repeat until you feel more satisfied with your work.

    Tips for making this more effective:

    Tip 1: Thank your nemesis, terrible boss, rude coworker, underperforming employee, or someone you don’t know that well. This is a great way to improve any work relationship.

    Tip 2: Make the thanks specific to the individual and/or circumstance. How is the particular circumstance different then expected?

    Tip 3: Practice regularly. You will get better at this the more you do it.

    This seems dumb doesn’t it? It isn’t going to instantly solve all of your problems, but I guarantee it will help, and it only takes 30 seconds.

    TRY IT RIGHT NOW.


  • Nest & Protect

    I love the idea behind the Nest thermostat and the Protect fire alarm. Why do we just accept that the status quo (clunky, disconnected devices) are good enough? What other mini-revolutions can we start?

    I for one would embrace a well thought out parking “Pay and Display” machine. It seems like the designers are trying to win both the “most confusing” and “slowest” awards at the same time.


  • First

    Setting up a wordpress blog on your own domain on nearlyfreespeech.net is pretty easy (if you are a bit of a geek)

    This is the guide I followed: https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/wiki/Applications/WordPress

    My only problem was that I mistakenly used “wordpress.com” instead of “wordpress.org” in the svn command…

    I was trying to edit the .htaccess file myself, but that wasn’t working so I just changed the permissions and let wordpress do it for me, which worked perfectly.

    The wordpress installer is very slick. I had to input the database settings in the config file, but after that it is literally a single page install form. Ages better than the last time I installed some web software.