And Higher Still: Health

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2013-09-08

Must-Read: Raptitude

Very, very, very occasionally I find a blogger that's so good, by the end of an article or two, I:

consider my life materially improved
subscribe to the RSS feed
schedule a time to dig into the article backlog
definitely want to meet this person.

The last time this happened was with Mr. Money Mustache, whose articles worked miracles to help me crystallize my as-of-yet dilute solution of thoughts on personal finance, financial independence, and lifestyle engineering.

Well folks, it's happened again.

Raptitude.

The subtitle is "getting better at being human". You should already be interested.

David Cain, the Raptitude guy

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2013-05-25

External Motivation

"You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one."
-- James Anthony Froude, The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

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Moore's Law of Technological Distraction states that the time-wasting and productivity-sapping powers of the Internet double approximately every two years. Just see for yourself:

Units: minutes per day spent watching digital images of cats

Tech Foundings
1975.04 - Microsoft
1976.04 - Apple
1998.09 - Google
2001.11 - StumbleUpon
2004.02 - Facebook
2005.06 - Reddit
2006.03 - Twitter
2007.02 - Tumblr
2008.01 - FailBlog
2009.02 - Imgur
2010.10 - Instagram

There are, shockingly, a few services that are designed to improve your ability to make positive life changes and get stuff done. What will they think of next?

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2013-05-23

Thrift Is Beautiful: The Gym

If you're a total gym-o-holic and your gym activities are a huge part of your free time, social life, and personal image, you'll probably read this article and think, "yeah, but it's worth it!" If you're in that camp and a gym membership is one of your thoughtfully-chosen luxuries, have at it. For the other 99.9% of us...

According to StatisticsBrain, fitness gyms are a $20 billion dollar industry. 45 million people pay an average of $55 per month to for gym memberships. But fitness is good and it's totally worth it, right?

pumping some serious iron

67% of people with a gym membership never visit the gym.

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