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11 Days In: What I’ve (re)Learned about Pickup
I’ve just completed my eleventh day of my thirty day get-back-into-pickup challenge. No… I’m not going to beat myself up this time– I’m going to talk about what I’ve (re)learned over this week and a half. The interesting aspect to this whole process is that I’m not actually learning anything new. I’ve been through this…
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Why I Won’t Quit, And Other Responses to Last Week’s Comments
I’ve been really surprised to see some of the responses that have come in on last weeks post about me quitting. In particular, I’m shocked at how many people think it’s okay, or even best, to quit. I can only assume that I did a poor job explaining why I’m getting back into pickup, because…
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Letting Myself Quit
I did something really scary and dangerous today. I let myself quit. It’s the second day of my Month-of-Pickup, an intensive course correction aimed towards making myself extraverted and social again. Yesterday was the first day. My friend and I set a goal of doing eight approaches each. We did it just as the mall…
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Being a Mutant
It didn’t occur to me until about a week ago that I am a mutant. When genes duplicate, the overwhelming majority of them are copied with perfect fidelity, with only the occasional rogue gene mutating into something unexpected. Most of these mutations, called neutral mutations, have no real effect. Once in a while, though, a…
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I Wrote a New RV Book! My Old Books are on Sale!
I had a discussion about book pricing recently with one of my favorite bloggers, Sebastian Marshall. His new book, Ikigai, is being sold for $7.77. He doesn’t really care how much money he makes off it (his portion goes to charity, anyway), but he didn’t want to lower the price because he thinks that it…
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How to Get a Month’s Worth of Work Done in One Week
*** The average employee does somewhere between 1.5 to 5 hours af actual work per day, depending on whose survey you trust. Let’s say people do three hours of actual focused work. That’s sixty hours of actual work per month. If you’re in a boring job and you’re content to dick around and waste time,…
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Goodbye, 2011
And somehow we’re done with 2011 already. Last year I made one goal (getting this site to the top 50k in Alexa), and I didn’t make any effort whatsoever to reach it, so at this point I’m giving up on yearly goals. But I will say this– if SETT isn’t rocking and rolling by this…
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Goodbye, 2011
And somehow we’re done with 2011 already. Last year I made one goal (getting this site to the top 50k in Alexa), and I didn’t make any effort whatsoever to reach it, so at this point I’m giving up on yearly goals. But I will say this– if SETT isn’t rocking and rolling by this…
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Goodbye, 2011
And somehow we’re done with 2011 already. Last year I made one goal (getting this site to the top 50k in Alexa), and I didn’t make any effort whatsoever to reach it, so at this point I’m giving up on yearly goals. But I will say this– if SETT isn’t rocking and rolling by this…
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SETT: What I’ve Been Working on for the Past Year
For the last year or so I’ve been working on something big, which I’ve been stubbornly keeping a secret. I know that this has been annoying to readers, but I felt that skirting around the issue was slightly better than avoiding it altogether. Of course, it’s also been hard for me to keep it a…
