Mutual Improvement

links for 2006-09-14

• John Maeda: The Master of Simplicity
  A few rules for keeping things simple.
  (tags: simplicity 37signals johnmaeda)

links for 2006-09-13

• Pennylicious
  A funny money blog (via the wesabe blog)
  (tags: money humor)
• Budget not in the cards? Just track your spending
  Budgets don't work. Here's a simple list of ideas for tracking your spending.
  (tags: spending, money)
• Getting Finances Done » 3 reasons most budgets don’t work and how to fix them (a.k.a. How to create a budget that works)
  Why most budgets don’t work - While I agree with the headline, the author goes on to tell you to basically create a budget anyway.
  (tags: spending, money)
• Mindfulness and Money: How Buddhism can help you create inner and outer abundance
  I think mindfulness, perhaps not in this book's particular incarnation, is the key to controlling spending.
  (tags: spending, money)
• Noney: cultural tender with no monetary value
  Noney is a new currency, with each note being a hand-drawn, hand-printed and hand-signed piece of art. Each note can also be traded for things. Like money, Noney is for people to circulate. The result is a combination of performance, public art and printm
  (tags: money currency culture barter finance)
• Why Budgets Don't Work and How to Fix It
  Keep it simple when it comes to budgets -- but I still think there is a better answer
  (tags: spending, money)
• Marginal Revolution: The Rich Sleep Efficiently
  once again, not surprising, when you think about it
  (tags: sleep money)

links for 2006-09-12

• Statistical Abstract: Income, Expenditures, & Wealth
  Understanding what normal is
  (tags: money statistics)
• Federal Reserve: Consumer Credit, Release Dates
  current debt statistics
  (tags: money, debt)
• People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.
  As much as we want to change our behaviors to match our thoughts, it's much more common that we change our thinking to match our behaviors.
  (tags: behavior thought psychology)
• Lifehacker gives the Dalai Lama Center poll to its readers
  And finds much the same results.
  (tags: lifehacker happiness poll linklove)
• Doing it for free
  "In fact, the more I think about it, the more it seems that pioneers are almost never in it for the money. I think the reason is pretty obvious: when you try to make a profit from your innovation, you stop innovating too soon. You take the short payout be
  (tags: sethgodin money innovation)
• Location, race and income affect life spans in U.S.
  Not surprising, when you think about it.
  (tags: location, longevity, income, race)

links for 2006-09-10

• Pit-stop for doctors
  One of the ten faces of innovators is the cross-pollinator: someone who takes ideas from one field of study and mixes them with the practices of another.
  (tags: innovation tedblog crosspollination)

links for 2006-09-09

• Satisficing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Jason Fried's new favorite term
  (tags: 37signals satisficing)
• Recent findings on subjective well-being
  Cameron Marlow sent this to me, and is related to some of the other links we've been linking to.
  (tags: happiness study paper)
• Why Smart People Do Dumb Things (Like Not Backup Their Hard Disk)
  A list of traits that turn successful heroes into tragic heroes. Also, a list of great qualities to counterbalance your unconscious desire to fail.
  (tags: kawasaki hubris arrogance failure)
• Pulseware Personality Survey
  An interesting personality test, it did a good job of describing the personality I was trying to be.
  (tags: personalitytest survey myspace)
• A transaction makes a customer
  Relationships are built on favors.
  (tags: 37signals relationships customers)

links for 2006-09-08

• How are you with money?
  Are you an accountant, someone who is stress-free about money, or somewhere in the crazy middle?
  (tags: money financial)
• Get Rich Slowly » YMOYL 2006 Review
  Real life review of someone tracking with "Your Money or Your Life"
  (tags: money, ymoyl)
• FIRECalc: A different kind of retirement calculator
  Figure out if you have enough
  (tags: money retirement)
• After 9/11, Wall Street chief calls happiness key
  Type A guy learns to seek happiness post 9/11
  (tags: happiness, work, terrorism)
• Emotion & Money
  As reported in Discover magazine, the team found that fear and investing don't mix. They found that stroke victims and others with damage to the emotional centers of their brains make better investment decisions than those with a full range of emotions.
  (tags: money, emotions)
• Pew Research Center: Are We Happy Yet?
  more polling on happiness, with some results that contradict research I've seen
  (tags: happiness)

links for 2006-09-07

• Creativity determines sexual success, research suggests
  (tags: creativity, sex)
• Science Confirms: You Really Can't Buy Happiness
  "One of the mistakes people make is they focus on the salary and not the non-salary aspects of work," Krueger said. "People do not put enough weight on the quality of work. That is why work looks like, for most people, the worst moments of the day."
  (tags: money, happiness)
• Tips on how to be happy—from the year 1625.
  Straight from Francis Bacon's clowny mouth.
  (tags: happiness tips wisdom)
• Study: Link between money, happiness a complex equation
  More on the Kahneman study from Science - I liked these tips: "If more money won't make us much happier, what will? Here are four pointers. • Keep your commute short. While we often adjust amazingly well to life's hardships, commuting is an exception
  (tags: money, happiness)
• Psychology Today: When It Comes to Money, Emotions Run High
  why we'd rather punish than profit if the stakes are unfair
  (tags: "game theory", money)
• Request your Social Security Statement
  Find out how much you've earned
  (tags: money)
• Debt-snowball method
  .Pay minimums on all debts. Pay off your lowest debt balance first, then apply the minimum balance from that to the next debt, and continue rolling until you're out of debt!
  (tags: debt money financial wikipedia)
• The Value Of Common Interests, Trust And Social Networks
  Nice 43 Things mention.
  (tags: 43things socialnetworks media)
• Seth's Blog: Good thoughts, good words, good deeds
  Advice on building a religion from a web marketing guru
  (tags: religion marketing)
• Becoming Fearless
  Interesting new book and blog on the idea of being fearless in relationships, work, health, parenting, food, and sex.
  (tags: fearlessness huffingtonpost fear emotion)

links for 2006-09-06

• The false fight between fun and business
  If you think of work and play as opposites, you're setting up a false dichotomy that might make you avoid having fun with work.
  (tags: work play dichotomy svn 37signals)
• The Happiness Project
  (tags: happiness)
• 37days
  What if you only had 37 days to live?
  (tags: life, happiness)
• Psychology Today: A Field Guide to the Bon Vivant
  Made me think of our own Erik Benson . . .
  (tags: lifeoftheparty)
• Link between income and happiness is mainly an illusion
  (tags: happiness money)
• Peer-reported personality problems of research nonparticipants: Are our samples biased?
  selection biased against the sane and anti-social
  (tags: psychology)
• Survival of the harmonious
  Music stimulates the same parts of the brain as food and sex. Why did it evolve?
  (tags: evolution brain music aesthetics)

links for 2006-09-05

• Get Rich Slowly » 27 Money Tips for College Students
  (tags: school, money)

links for 2006-09-04

• Life and Microsoft Blog: 43 Places, Things, People, and more...
  (tags: 43things)