Zach Coelius is one of my favorite tech entrepreneurs - very smart and always willing to help in any way. His company, Triggit, has a nifty new search feature that you can add to your blog with almost zero effort. They’re in the early stages with this site bar, and are asking for feedback on […]
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Michael Melcher, in a great happiness interview with Gretchen Rubin:
[A] big part of happiness is recognizing who you actually are and finding ways to bring out the best in that person and manage the less wonderful parts.
and
It’s fine to choose to do or not to do things, so long as we acknowledge that we are […]
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I really like Gwyneth Paltrow’s weekly newsletter. There, I said it.
This, from this week’s email on parenting, is so right:
[I]t has been my personal experience (both as a child and a mother) that children are like little radios picking up our frequency. They know the real truth about what we are feeling versus what […]
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I can’t believe it’s been five years since she came along, either. I still vividly remember seeing people update their blogs about her birth. (Oh, how innocent we were pre-Twitter! We thought updating a blog post was as easy as it got.)
Heather Armstrong always manages to move me with her letters to Leta. I think […]
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Sometimes I focus so much on all the things that are not going exactly my way. It’s a bad path to start down, and the progression to the bottom isn’t much fun, either. But there is a lot I’m thankful for lately:
palm trees
sunshine
71 degree days in February (even though I complain about how cold this […]
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This is 100 per cent how my friend Brian Micklethwait talks in person, and I really miss it!
Not myself having any plans to take cannabis, I have tended to remain rather ignorant of the details of the riskiness argument, because I just do not think that this is what matters, any more than I favour […]
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That’s one way I’d describe my dear friend Nancy; I think I saw her topless for the first time within about an hour of meeting her.
(I just tried to think of a convincing way to explain that she doesn’t walk around naked all the time, and she is certainly not a show-off in this […]
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Want to post a photo to multiple sites at one time? Pikchur is the way to go. Its cross-platform posting, from the web or your mobile device, could not be easier. Send your photo to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and a host of others with one simple upload. It has a bunch of other cool features, […]
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I almost considered watching the Super Bowl for the ads. Then I thought, maybe my time would be better spent doing just about anything else.
-Brendan Baldwin, with whom I am lucky enough to work five days a week. He’s really a delight.
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It’s not one of mine, but the top one here by my old (as in young, beautiful and fragrant but someone who’s stuck with me for an unbelievable number of years now) friend Jacq*. Honestly, how lovely is that image? (UPDATE: The photo has been removed! See Jacq’s comment on this post, which explains all. […]
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Man, I love this place. If there is a restaurant in SF that makes better sushi, I want to know about it. I think this is the best sushi I have had anywhere, in fact. (Sit at the bar so you can order dish after dish.) Many thanks to my colleague Lauren Batty for the […]
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