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Fill the gaps in your toolkit with Skillswap

June 4, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Nobody can do it all, no matter how broad your skill set is, it’s likely that at some point you’re going to take on a project where you need to bring in some help – somebody with the skills you lack. In this situation you can either pay to hire somebody with those skills, or, you can find somebody willing to do a skill-swap. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of skill swapping, it’s based on the premise that you trade skills rather cash. For example, if I need somebody to help me with web development, in return I can offer to help them with a logo design. The concept of trading skills is by no means new but thanks to…

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Fill the gaps in your toolkit with Skillswap

Solve 80% of Your Problems With Pareto Analysis

May 31, 2014 / / 0 Comments

It was 1906. Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, in the course of researching his ideas, made an interesting observation. 80% of the land in Italy, he discovered, was owned by just 20% of the people. Exploring this relationship in other countries, he found that the situation was the same all over Europe. Over time, he became aware that this 80/20 split was not limited to landowners—or even to human affairs. In fact, he found, 20% of the pea pods in his garden produced 80% of the peas he harvested! Forty years after Pareto published his ideas, business theorist Joseph Juran stumbled across the 80/20 rule, and wondered if it could be applied to business situations. Could it be that 80% of business problems were generated by just 20% of the …

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Manvotional: Want to Change the World? Start by Making Your Bed

May 25, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Editor’s note: The following commencement address was given last week to the graduates of the University of Texas by Naval Admiral William H. McRaven. McRaven is the commander of U.S. Special Operations and oversaw the mission that killed Osama bin Laden. As much as it pains me to post a speech that ends with “Hook em horns” – it’s too awesome not to share. President Powers, Provost Fenves, Deans, members of the faculty, family and friends and most importantly, the class of 2014. Congratulations on your achievement. It’s been almost 37 years to the day that I graduated from UT. I remember a lot of things about that day. I remember I had throbbing headache from a party the night before. …

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Manvotional: Want to Change the World? Start by Making Your Bed

You! Be Informed! Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases 400,000 Works Online

May 22, 2014 / / 0 Comments

It’s a good day to be a art history nerd. The Metropolitan Museum of has digitized and released a collection of about 400,000 pieces in its collection available to use for public domain. This means, we can now take a long, good hard look at pieces by art masters such as Rembrandt, Picasso, Manet and Warhol. You can now zoom in and check out some of the details and the intricacy of the pieces, so you can analyze and be inspired by the beauty of these classic pieces. The Met aims to digitize most of it’s collection, letting us take a peek and fall in love with these pieces. All for free!

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You! Be Informed! – #0063 – Metropolitan Museum of Art releases 400,000 works online.

5 Alternatives to Default WordPress Comments

May 18, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Whether you’re an artist, a business owner or just a person with lots of thoughts on lots of subjects, odds are you have a blog. And you very well might have that blog hosted on WordPress, as recent statistics point out that 41.6 million new blog posts are made on the site each month. While the blog-hosting site provides users with a myriad of benefits, the fact of the matter remains that there are some areas where improvements could be made. One such area is that of commenting. Since WordPress was launched in 2003’s more than a decade ago, the site has boasted commenting functionality. The problem? That functionality hasn’t been updated since it was first introduced 11 years ago. If one year is seven years…

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5 Alternatives to Default WordPress Comments

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