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Recovering From A Fall, Part I

My name is Gideon, and I suffer from severe depression.
I’ve mentioned my health a bit these past few months - and this is it.  I’ve had a very, very nasty episode of major depression and it, more or less, completely incapaciated me.  Some of you may have experience with depression, some of you may not. [...]

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Me, Me, Me: Find Your Voice and Make it Shout

Today we’re lucky to have a guest post by Martin of The University Blog!  You can see more of his excellent work there. 
Spending so much time on the search for improving productivity can become unproductive. You read the thousands of blogs out there suggesting one thing or another, just in case it speaks to [...]

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Life Is Far Too Short To Drink Cheap Beer - 10 Ways To Maximize Your Beer Value

First, stop thinking of beer as a commodity. It’s not toilet paper, or screws, or an all-you-can-eat buffet. Stop thinking of beer in terms of the bland, yellow, fizzy beverages foisted on the American public by huge brewing conglomerates. Not just the big American brewers, who have spent countless marketing dollars convincing most of us that beer is supposed to be bland, yellow, and fizzy, but also their overseas counterparts who offer essentially the same product but use the additional marketing message that theirs is better because it’s importe

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On the Importance of Self Education, Part II: The News and You

In the last part of this series I talked primarily about the importance and value of the education you can only give yourself - expanding your intellect and abilities beyond the classroom. It’s fairly abstract, so the rest of this series will be about how you educate yourself.
Our post yesterday concerned RSS feeds, and why [...]

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