Category Archives: link

[ kottke ] Don’t eat the marshmallow – long New Yorker essay about the work of Walter Mischel who discovered some correlations between self-control as a child and success in later life.

Tweeting your way to a job – if the NYT is talking about it, it must be reaching mainstream, yes?

Some good ideas for creatives across a range of Adobe products here: 20 Time-Saving Tips to Improve Designer’s Workflow

Google mash-up: Prangz.com – Real-time NSW Road Accidents & Incidents

[ Smashing Magazine ] Business Card Design: Better Than A Plain Ol’ Business Card – some are completely impractical, but there are some brilliant ideas here.

Expert Trevor Cairney explains How to listen to your child read – what mistakes they’ll make (and why) and how to correct them so that they stay encouraged.

[scott] Why you should encourage weakness

How to sneeze properly, perhaps somewhat biased, coming from a tissue manufacturer, but some useful information, and ways to teach kids.

Could your wifi be having trouble because of your baby monitor?

I haven’t heard of celebrity chef Mark Bittman, or his methods: truthfully, only one thing leapt out at me from this post: a way of cutting through analysis-paralysis – Perfect is the enemy of Great – but the rest has some principles that are worth flicking through.