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cronan recommended The Nine Essentials from anatbanielmethod.com:

Essential 5—Slow Fast, we can only do what we already know. That is how the brain works. To learn and master new skills and overcome limitation, the first thing to do is slow way down. Slow actually gets the brain’s attention and stimulates the formation of rich new neural patterns. Slow gets us out of the automatic mode in our movements, speech, thoughts and social interactions. It lets us feel and experience life at a deeper, more profound level.

Estimated reading time: 4 min

cronan Slow sounds nice. The other 8 are worth reading too.

January 4, 2013 | 0

What's the best advice you've ever received? You are the average of the five people you associate with the most.

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cronan Think hard about this one. Who are the five people you hang out with the most?

December 6, 2012 | 0

I can’t help but agree. I, too, have heard lots of newly minted content folks recently take up the phrase to claim that all content should be there, finished, before a single design decision is made. That’s not just silly; it’s unrealistic – and unhelpful.

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cronan right. and it's got to be part of the process. designers want freedom of expression, so it makes zero sense to demand a "paint-by-numbers" set of circumstances to occur before beginning.

October 20, 2012 | 0

When signaling change, physically destroy a representation of the attitudes that are getting in the way (i.e., put negative culture characteristics on beer bottles and smash them). - Jeff Charney – CMO, Progressive Insurance (#35)

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cronan HULK SMASH!

October 19, 2012 | 0

The newspaper noted that one of Armstrong’s critics, Kathy LeMond, wife of cyclist Greg LeMond, testified under oath during a 2006 deposition that Nike paid cycling officials $500,000 to cover up a positive drug test. Nike denies the claim.

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cronan I really hope this is not true at all.

October 19, 2012 | 0

cronan recommended Reeder 1.2 for Mac from reederapp.com:

New sharing services: Recommend on QUOTE.fm

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cronan Good on Reeder for jumping into the Quote.fm pool

October 12, 2012 | 0

“I just know keeping track of what I’m doing and where I’m going is important to me. It’s very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you’re dead, and I’m going to say that’s got to be a letdown.”

Estimated reading time: 1 min

cronan On the checklist of being better

September 29, 2012 | 0

make a “research review” a core habit for students.

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cronan about making research a more critical component to journalism school

September 28, 2012 | 0

cronan recommended Big Data's Human Component from blogs.hbr.org:

A tool is an enabler, facilitator, accelerator and magnifier of human capability, not its replacement or surrogate

Estimated reading time: 4 min

cronan Great read on "Big Data" - By Jim Stikeleather: "Big Data's Human Component" -- and like how he works Edward Tufte into the message.

September 25, 2012 | 0

Several years ago I had an experience that taught me that no matter what I am faced with, if I can just break down my projects into bite size pieces, I can truly accomplish just about anything.

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cronan Simple advice, but true.

September 20, 2012 | 0

According to the @APStylebook Twitter stream, "Responding to reader input, we are changing Web site to website. This appears on Stylebook Online today and in the 2010 book next month."

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cronan And then it was done. "Web site" had finally earned it's resting place to lead way to "website."

September 19, 2012 | 0

Bannister and Snell were following the Lydiard method of training, which had them running up to 100 miles a week and sometimes even more. What were they wearing? They wore leather shoes that had no support, cushion or heel. In other words, they were minimalist shoes.

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cronan More evidence on minimal shoe support and injury prevention for runners

September 16, 2012 | 0

Thinking about writing is not the same as writing. Reading about writing is not the same as writing. Tweeting about writing is not the same as writing. Having a conversation about writing is not the same as writing.

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cronan Good tips I'm extremely guilty of

September 16, 2012 | 0

So summers went by, each with identical warnings despite which I didn’t get polio and none among my seven cousins got polio. Nobody in my Sunday school class got polio, and nobody in my grade school. None of the neighbor kids with whom I played cowboys and war all day, every day, got polio. And then one did.

Estimated reading time: 5 min

cronan Melissa shared this well written post about the polio days. Read to the "showing up" part. Good story.

September 16, 2012 | 0

I think a heavier Clydesdale-type runner should stay clear of any cushioned shoe from the start. Because, indeed, although the idea that a traditional running shoe increases forces through the knees is counterintuitive, that is exactly what we found in the gait laboratory. But the increased forces we found were not at impact. The peak forces that are associated with knee osteoarthritis always occur later in the stance phase when the foot is fully planted – in midstance.

Estimated reading time: 2 min

cronan Counter to what we have been thinking for years as heavier runners. Maybe more padded shoes increase the likeliness of injury?

September 16, 2012 | 0

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