Most useful Gmail keyboard shortcuts

I love productivity. I came across this Gmail keyboard cheat sheet at Gizomodo… However, this sheet still contains shortcuts which I likely would never use. Here is my own short list of the ones I think are the most useful and applicable in real world usage. You can download the full, complete list.

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Does Apple need to become a “consumer web services” company to compete?

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The same way that Google is an advertising company (that does lots of things to support their advertising-based business model) Apple is a hardware company (that does lots of things to support their hardware-based business model). Apple's business … [Continue reading]

The best guards come from within

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I was watching the movie "In Time" the other day. Aside from the bad acting and modestly interesting ideas presented, I was struck by a scene in the latter part of the movie. The scene is where the handsome protagonist is facing down … [Continue reading]

Education in the 21st century… courses vs channels?

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I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about what education is going to look like over the next 10-20 years... This is what education looked like when your grandparents went to school: And this is what education looked like when I went to … [Continue reading]

Apple’s REAL challenges (Daring Fireball)

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I just spent an hour walking and listening to John Gruber and his latest podcast. If you don't know who John Gruber is, he's basically like John the Baptist, but for the Apple faithful... Apple's Actual Problems (podcast) In reviewing the … [Continue reading]

I think, therefore I am… an INTJ

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  I've always wanted to do one of these... I mean, I'm sure I've done one of these at the many business and career conferences I've been to, but I never paid much attention. I was almost certain that I would be INTJ before I started... … [Continue reading]

So long Evernote, and thanks for all the Fish…

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  It's funny that for the last 6 months, I've had sitting in my "to do" folder a task to write a blog post talking about how to use Evernote to be a productivity ninja... I was going to talk about their awesome OCR capabilities, their iPhone, … [Continue reading]

Yahoo and the office – a story of company culture

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http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3453-no-more-remote-work-at-yahoo Now, I don't know exactly what Marissa was thinking with this new "everyone must work from an office" edict... and that's really what it amounts to... an "edict"... Edict - "a … [Continue reading]

What FREE online educational REALLY means to the established higher ed ecosystem…

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I don't want to pull any punches, so when I say, it's articles like this one with a title like "Venture Capital's Massive, Terrible Idea For The Future Of College" that make me livid. I'm not upset because I think the author is wrong (actually, he … [Continue reading]

The Platform Wars – Google vs Apple

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It's the clash of titans going on right now in the digital arena... I'm not going to go in-depth on every aspect of each of these companies with respect to how they BECAME a leader in their respective space, but I am going to talk about what these … [Continue reading]