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April 10, 2014

It’s Princess Night!

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Instead of flying home to Denver tonight, I’m sticking around Dallas. However, as this week progressed, I realized that I didn’t yet have any plans for tonight. Rather than trying to find another poor planner who wasn’t booked in advance, I decided it was high time that tonight I do something that I always try to do but never actually end up doing. It’s Princess Night! When was the last time you took a night to do whatever you wanted, without feeling guilty about doing so? (That last part is key… I’m certainly not trying to say I never have fun, but …

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April 1, 2014

Apps I Love: MightyText

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MightyText

I’ve written before about my struggles with text messaging. In short, I think it’s an outdated means of communication reminiscent of when everyone had pagers and you made up secret codes to communicate without having to call each other. (“Dad, 888 means come pick me up now because rehearsal ended early, and 777 means I found a ride home so you don’t have to come at all. Got it?”) If something is urgent, I call. If it’s not, I email. We all have email on our phones anyway, so why use the secondary (and in my opinion, inferior) channel of …

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January 16, 2014

App I Love: Rapportive

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I think pretty much everyone has to send emails to people they don’t know on occasion. And it’s never fun when you make the assumption that “Leslie Smith” is a female… and he turns out to be a male. Oops. But I recently learned about a new add-on for Gmail that helps with that problem – and provides a lot of other benefits as well. Ramit Sethi did a short newsletter this week on Rapportive, and I initially figured I’d download it and likely get rid of it when it didn’t turn out to be that great (after all, who …

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January 6, 2014

App I Love: Full Text RSS Feed

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Over my Christmas vacation, I intended to get caught up on my blog reading… but that unfortunately didn’t totally happen. Oops! However, I recently discovered an app that has greatly improved my blog reading experience, and wanted to share it with all of you. Have you ever added a blog to your RSS reader and been irritated to discover that the blogger has set up their feed to only show “excerpts?” That is, your reader shows a few sentences or maybe even a few paragraphs, but then you get the dreaded “click here to continue reading?” That pisses me off …

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November 19, 2013

Stressed? Write it Down

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Stressed? Write Down Your Problems

“When you’re lost and alone, and you’re sinking like a stone… carry on.” While Monday was a day when it seemed like I just kept getting lucky with things going right, today was one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days where I got so stressed out that I wanted to go cry in the office bathroom. Evidently I wasn’t the only one… Finally, though, the day is over – so while I still have some work to do, I can at least do it from the comfort of my hotel room. (Which means it’s now my party …

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