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The Art of Relaxation

11 February 2009

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You dine, rather than consume. It’s a one hour cup of soup and a glass of red wine at a local bistro. It’s not a four minute, thirty second frozen dinner and diet coke consumed at your laptop in less time than it took to heat up. You sit in silence and listen to your breathing. You [...]

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Frustrations working abroad

19 December 2008

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Some comments of interest so far: time zone changes are frustrating. In the beginning I thought it would be helpful to have such a dramatic time change between Sydney and Austin, thinking that I’d be able to knock stuff out and have it show up in my colleague’s inboxes when they wake up. Not so easy. [...]

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Inbox Zero at 7am

11 December 2008

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Two days in a row now that I’ve woken up super early. The first time it happened (4am) I thought it was a fluke because of a misaligned body clock, but when I woke up naturally this morning at 5am I realized, perhaps my body is so anxious to “get things done” that I’m jettisoning [...]

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Workflow challenges and changes while traveling abroad

10 December 2008

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It’s 4:35AM in Australia and while everyone else (my sister, her roommate, & my girlfriend) are asleep, but my internal clock was aching me to ‘get the hell outta bed!” So here I am sipping tea and writing a blog post. Before my travels to Sydney I purchased the super tiny Asus eeePC 901 series. Yes, the [...]

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