Monthly Archives: April 2011

Goodbye guilt and blame, I

on April 24, 2011 in Awareness, Blog

[This post is part of a series on overcoming guilt and blame for good. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] Do you like feeling guilty or doing things that make you feel guilt? Do you find blaming people improves your life? Not likely. Would you prefer alternatives that don’t[…] Keep reading →

Tonight’s talk’s map

on April 23, 2011 in Art, Blog, Creativity, Education

Here’s the mindmap for tonight’s Fred talk. Slightly evolved from my last one. Not everything made it into the presentation. Drag it around and click around. To navigate use arrow keys or click white space and drag to move the map click the ‘+’ or ‘-‘ icon at the top to resize the map click the “fit” icon at the top (to the right of the ‘-‘) to fit the[…] Keep reading →

Working on art

on April 22, 2011 in Art, Blog, Creativity

When you feel like a superhero it’s hard not to indulge in sharing why you feel so great. Solving technical problems makes you feel like a genius when you get it. I’ve had two days straight of amazing progress. One thing after another fell into place. It all took a lot of research, trial and error, moving step-by-step, not biting off too much at a time. Most of that was[…] Keep reading →

Added press page

on April 22, 2011 in Blog

I added the Press page to the blog. Building the site. Slowly getting there…

How to succeed in difficult situations

on April 21, 2011 in Art, Blog

My friend, Sebastian Marshall, featured me in his excellent blog yesterday. His blog is on strategy, specifically about “Strategy, Philosophy, Self-Discipline, Science. Victory.” — apologetically about succeeding. He’s an incredible guy living a life most people dream of, sharing how to achieve the same. His views are well thought out. His advice is actionable and sensible, but not what most people would realize at first. Mainly because he’s thought through[…] Keep reading →

See me speak on creativity!

on April 20, 2011 in Blog, Creativity, Education, Events

See my Fred talk this Saturday, April 23, 7:30pm at 136 Lawrence Street, Brooklyn. From my previous post about the talk (before it was rescheduled to this Saturday): Fred talks are do-it-yourself Ted talks with the slogan “Your friends’ ideas worth spreading.” Who says you need some huge conference for thousands of people that costs lots of money? You probably learned more from your grandmother than most of your teachers,[…] Keep reading →

Another reason to avoid proprietary software

on April 20, 2011 in Awareness, Blog, Freedom

Another reason to avoid proprietary software is that it allows its creators privacy on your hardware. That lets them spy on you, among other things. Who wants that? For example, here is a report that the iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go Security researchers have discovered that Apple’s iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device[…] Keep reading →

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