Weekend Reading: Good Blogs Edition
| Posted in Weekend Reading | Posted on 03-05-2009
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Here are five really high quality blogs I’ve found myself reading lately. What blogs do you guys suggest?
Here are five really high quality blogs I’ve found myself reading lately. What blogs do you guys suggest?
You can read descriptions of each article and see links to each one by going here. This will definitely be something I spend the next week reading through.
#1 – Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
#2 – Violent Acres’ Most People Are Depressed For a Very Good Reason
#3 – Steve Pavlina’s Don’t Die With Your Music Still In You
#4 – Brian Kim’s How to Find What You Love to Do
#5 – Fred Gratzon’s Top 10 Signs You’re Made to be an Entrepreneur
#6 – Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
#7 – Darren Rowse’s 18 Lessons I’ve Learned About Blogging
#8 – Caro Clarke’s Are You a Writer?
#9 – Danielle Gibbings’ Need a Reboot?
#10 – My own 10 Reasons It Doesn’t Pay To Be “The Computer Guy”
In what will be the first of a long series of posts about personal development or inspiration in the form of videos. Steve Jobs has some great advice. I’ll take suggestions for a name to call the series. Something to become a weekly feature like Weekend Reading and Monday Morning Distraction.
If you are looking for something to do on a Sunday afternoon, look no further. This list is a 100 Skills every man should know. I know about 42/100 so far, but when I have some time I will try to learn to do more. Some of the stuff is actually very cool.
This is a great read. Anyone who knows me in person knows that this is something I am definitely all about. For those who don’t know, Warren Buffet is America’s richest person. He recently overtook Bill Gates due to fluctuations in the stock market.
I couldn’t come up with a witty title for this post, for that we will have to wait for ‘Gate’s comments.
Hack College is something I wish I would have known about when I was actually in school. The tagline for the web site is “Lifehacks, Study Tips for College Students.” There are some really good resources there for college students. Life Hacker, which is a great site in it’s own regard, also has a great list of some of the best posts from Hack College.
Check them out here. There a handful I might look at, it is always fun to learn new stuff.
This post has a great list of eight skills you probably didn’t learn in school. Now that I am a member of the real world, I really would have liked to have learned some of these before now.
This article has the details, below is the seven secrets without the details. If you don’t know who Buffett is, he is the richest man in America having recently overtaken Bill Gates.
Secret # 1 Happiness comes from within.
Secret # 2 Find happiness in simple pleasures.
Secret # 3 Live a simple life.
Secret # 4 Think Simply.
Secret # 5 Invest Simply.
Secret # 6 Have a mentor in life.
Secret # 7 Making money isn’t the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose.