Mental Sandbox – meta, travel, and life updates

My Mental Sandbox is a place to put any posts I write that don’t fit in to any of the other categories.

These generally included website meta, random thoughts or links, and travel updates.

Linchpin by Seth Godin

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I recently finished reading Seth Godin’s book Linchpin. I loved it. It’s packed with loads of useful stuff. Here are just a few of the key ideas: The linchpin is indispensable. Everyone’s an artist now. Real artists ship. There is no map. Make real choices. Never wait for someone to tell you what to do. […]

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Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Summary

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The idea of flow is popular in the online productivity, life-hacking blogosphere. Being in a state of flow is when you’re fully immersed in a specific task with a seemingly inexhaustible amount of focus. Five hours may zip by and you hardly even notice. I’ve experienced flow on many occasions, such as when I get […]

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