From the category archives:
The overwhelming winner in my 30 day poll was “Bike to work” so that’s what I’m doing during the month of July. In the third week of July I’ll be out in Boston to speak at SIGIR, but any time I’m heading into the Googleplex during July, I’m planning to bike there.
Is there something good for yourself that you’ve been meaning to do? Why not try it for 30 days this month? The month will end whether you try something new or not, so why not tackle something new?
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I enjoy posting some of the funny emails that I get. This one made me laugh:
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I think it’s spam about embiggening a specific body part. But the spammer clearly didn’t set up their spam template correctly. 
Anyone have guesses about which email spamming software package this is?
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30 days is enough time to build a habit. Last month, I started trying to walk 10,000 steps a day for 30 days. I didn’t walk 10K steps every day, but I did keep at it until I’d walked over 10K steps for at least 30 days. In the process, I discovered that walking to the grocery store can be a relaxing way to unwind and get some exercise.
I’m just now wrapping up an effort to not watch any television for 30 days. I started on May 22nd (right after all the season finales finished). I learned that other than a few times at night, I don’t really miss the television--and I ended up reading a lot more books. I’ll still watch some TV after this experiment, but I think I’ll watch less. I also noticed when I watched TV after a month off that when a pizza commercial came on, I started to hanker for pizza. Search ads have wonderful, trackable ROI--but branding ads can be effective too.
So now the question is: what project should I attempt next? I wrote down a few ideas ranging from hard (read 15 books in 30 days) to near-impossible (no email for 30 days). I’m curious to hear what you think I should try:
Loading ...If you have other suggestions, leave them in the comments!
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I’ve been listening to the Penny Arcade podcast and it started me thinking about lifestreaming. There’s at least a few people I would pay if I could watch them stream their day over the net, either because they’re funny or interesting somehow. I thought about it a little bit, and here’s the list that I came up with:
- Jonah Hill
- Neil Gaiman
- Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik (from Penny Arcade)
- Kevin Smith
- Eddie Izzard
- Chris Sacca
- Jill Sobule
- John Mayer
- Felicia Day
- Bruce Campbell
- Sandra Day O’Connor
How about you? If you could pick a person and tune into their life as if it were a TV channel, who would you pick and why?
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How about you? What do you do that might be a tad anal-retentive?
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