Ernesto on June 30th, 2009

My friend Bob just read the book 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive and after sharing with me some promotional ideas the book sparked for him, passed along a link to this blog post, which sums up the whole fascinating list.  The book contains some persuasion techniques that you’ll recognize instantly – since they’ve probably been [...]

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Had a really cool experience during one of the 800 meter intervals in tonight’s track workout with the New Hampshire Athletic Alliance.  The workout was two 400 meter intervals, four 800 meter intervals, and two 400 meter intervals (with a mile and a half warmup and a mile and half cooldown run). I’d been hitting [...]

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Ernesto on June 22nd, 2009

Creative Nerds has a great list of free programs for image editing, drawing, vector art, 3D modeling and animation.   With all the drawing the kids and I have been doing lately, these programs fuel my desire for a graphics tablet.  I’ve come to hate doing pencil sketches and then scanning…. so much lost in [...]

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Ernesto on June 22nd, 2009

Isobel brings a little sweet color to a gray, rainy June.

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The newspaper industry is under a tremendous amount of pressure right now, both in terms of cyclical changes — the recession and its direct impact on ad revenues — and longer term challenges such as declining circulation which, while exacerbated by the Internet, was actually a trend that began prior to the Web. Some of [...]

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Ernesto on June 13th, 2009

Drawing pictures with the kids this morning – here’s mine.  I guess reading the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue this week has got me imitating a certain style here…  And no, I haven’t gotten any writing done yet this weekend.

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“In times of stress, leaders tend to communicate less about more, when in fact they should be communicating more about less,” according to Deb Titus, from Dale Carnegie, who gave a Webinar at The Telegraph last week. Here are a few tidbits I jotted down during the session, all of which to me seem to [...]

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