YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Tag: life

This is {why} we do it

(from the BettrAt blog) Pledge to watch the movie over at WaitingForSuperman.com. Infographic video made by the Creative animation studio Buck.

Polyphasic sleeping day #2 (or day #3?) What day is it?

You start to lose track of days when you are trying polyphasic sleeping. Remember when I was talking about all of the social norms you’re up against when trying non circadian sleeping habits? Well, they’re a lot more pervasive than I thought. I think I finally got into a groove, but I’m not sure how [...]

I never saved anything for the swim back

This is embarrassing, but I have to admit a remarkably cheesy thing about myself. When you’re working on a somewhat crazy, new to the world idea, and your primary intention is to “make meaning” and to improve people’s lives, people doubt you a lot. “Why would I use that? That doesn’t make sense to me… [...]

An update on things.

Sorry Ya’ll. I’ve been watching my repeat customers on my blog go down over the past few weeks as my posts have been less frequent. No excuse, I know, but I have been super busy with work (I’m taking 5 ID classes, including 3 workshops, and one B-school class, international business) I thought I’d at [...]