Hard Work versus Smart (and Rich) Laziness

Almost everyone has been brainwashed to accept (and pay lip service to) the fallacious premise that hard work is necessary in order to be successful. But the overwhelming evidence suggests the contrary, that hard work has nothing to do with success and is actually counterproductive. If hard work is supposed to produce success, then it would stand to reason that everyone who works hard should be successful. But that is far from the case. Most people who work hard never come close to being successful. In fact, most hard workers have a much higher incidence of non-success than they have success... (more)

The Lazy Way to Success: Hard Work versus Smart (and Rich) Laziness

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Medicine's Major Miss -- The Elephant in the Healing Zoo

Could it be that Medicine has just flat out missed a major cause of disease?Is it possible that this heavily financed Elephant in the Healing Zoo has been chasing chemical monkeys while a principle cause of disease (emotions) has been purring in its lap for decades?As an outsider to the medical field I feel a bit strange writing this. How does a mere Stanford engineer get off questioning the very foundation of one of the world's largest institutions? On the other hand, I merely point out the obvious. So let me say it...Unhealthy emotions such as anger, fear and trauma are a major drain on our body's immune system and thus show up physically as disease... (more)

EFT Blog : Medicine's Major Miss -- The Elephant in the Healing Zoo

Shrinking Down the House

From modernist cubes to rustic cabins, tiny homes let you skimp on everything but style

Two years ago, Dee Williams, a toxic-waste inspector, put her 2,000-sq.-ft. bungalow in Portland, Ore., on the market and moved into an 84-sq.-ft. cabin on wheels that she built using salvaged cedar, torn-up jeans for insulation and solar cells for power. Then she hitched her tiny house to a biodiesel truck and drove to Olympia, Wash., where friends agreed to let her park in a grassy corner of their backyard. Although Williams, 43, admits that she misses having room for friends to spend the night, she says, "I love my tiny house."... (more)

TIME.com: Shrinking Down the House -- Aug. 21, 2006 -- Page 1

Let Mother Nature Provide Solutions

A time-tested technique for problem solving is to take your challenge out of context and look at it from a different perspective. One context we all can relate to is nature... Mother Nature offers much for us to learn.To generate solutions with the help of Mother Nature, ask…“How does nature deal with a situation like this?” Or,“How do plants and animals address this situation?”... (more)

Inbox Sand - May 2006

Getting screwed at the pump

Without retrofitting, gas pumps do not account for the expansion of hot fuel as they measure by the gallon, but most drivers don't realize they're not getting their money's worth.

digg - Getting screwed at the pump

Calculate your Miles per Dollar (MP$)

Stop thinking about how many MPG your car gets and start thinking about how many MP$ it gets.

Once we realized, however, that time equals money, we started thinking differently. We each decided, "If time equals money and it takes three hours to drive to a destination, not only am I losing those three hours that I could be spending making money, I am also losing money on the gas to get there." Americans now became obsessed with MPG (miles-per-gallon). It didn't matter to us that we were driving cars that sucked up gas; as long as our cars had a higher MPG rating than those of our neighbors, we convinced ourselves that all was well.

Miles Per Dollar

FreeBee Club lets people list free stuff

You view their stuff, offer them your stuff, and make a deal. Or you buy their stuff, they buy your stuff, and everybody keeps the landfills empty! Give it away free, buy it, sell it, trade it, but don't throw stuff away! List it here... (more)

Free Stuff - FreeBees Club - Stuff For Free

How you can design for the scan reader

As the volume of information rapidly expands, the time to read this information remains relatively static. There are only twenty-four hours in the day; only so much attention to go around. How are you going to get people to read your content? Understanding and planning for how people scan read on the Web is a good start... (more)

How you can design for the scan reader: April 29,  2002 issue of New Thinking

the end of School as we know it?

Is the face of revolution a boy in a baseball cap, which hides his face?Is a virtuoso performance on youtube - the boy in a baseball cap in his bedroom playing his electric guitar: Pachebel's Canon Rock - by a 13 yo (guess) with 6.5 million views , 14.3 thousand comments and favourited 39 thousand times an implied condemnation of School as we know it and a harbinger of a new education system?... (more)

Bill Kerr: the end of School as we know it?