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Adjust your daily caffeine intake

I regularly make half-caf coffee. I think there’s a gap in the market. Why is coffee so binary?…

29 Jun 2013

Control a cue ball

29 Jun 2013

Childhood is not a race

4 Insights from Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn. Childhood is not a race. Punishments and rewards are 2 sides of the same coin — and both are unproductive. Love is not a scarce commodity that must be rationed. Move from "doing to" to "working with".…

28 Jun 2013

Solve the 9-dot problem

Seth Godin did a recent post about the 9-dot problem that explains more about it, albeit not in as interesting a way.…

20 Feb 2013

Cut an onion into teeny pieces

Various informants have since told me that cutting horizontally first helps keep it together better as you’re cutting, and that cutting this way first helps keep the tears away longer. I’d probably vote ease of cutting and reverse the order here.…

19 Feb 2013

Cook delicious, yummy, Thai curry

For something so delicious Thai curries are really remarkably fast and easy to cook yourself. Try it.…

18 Feb 2013

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