Work Less and Do More

As you know from listening to my podcast, I like to use unbiased language whenever I can. That’s language that is as free from gender assumptions as possible.
The APA has explicit guidelines for how to do this. You can find them here: http://is.gd/prz4 in the section titled “Unbiased language.” Watch it before reading my critique. [...]

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I have been slogging through editing my pre-first-draft for several weeks now. It’s been hellish. You see, I wrote the first 150 pages of the book using dictation software. The theory was: I can speak extemporaneously and create excellent, well-thought-out, coherent speeches. So why not just record those and turn them into a book? It [...]

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I save pretty much all my email, and it fills up my hard drive, my backups, and my Gmail account. I rarely go back and read it, though sometimes it *is* a valuable reference source.
I’ve been thinking of linking my Blackberry to my email so deleting a message on the Blackberry once I’ve handled it [...]

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