Month: July 2014

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Channel Your Inner Entrepreneur to Excel at Work

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I came across this post on lifehacker last week. It’s by Lauren Berger, and the article she wrote is an accompaniment to her book Welcome to the Real World.

I wrote a blog post back in February that’s very similar to this: Be Your Own Boss (Without Quitting Your Job).

In today’s working world, everyone is so fascinated by entrepreneur success stories out of Silicon Valley that they forget one’s ability to be entrepreneurial within a corporate environment. In fact, you use an entrepreneurial mindset to excel at your job.

I wrote about it in the context of ROWE, my approach to work in a results only work environment, and why I have no desire (currently, at least) to quit and start a consultancy firm.

Lauren writes about the next link in the chain: how this mindset leads to powerful results and exceptional job performance. It’s worth a quick read.

Channel Your Inner Entrepreneur to Excel at Work

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Late Night Links – Sunday July 13th, 2014

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It’s the final day of my week off work, which makes me a little sad. On the plus side though the fact that it’s Sunday means it’s late night links time again. Yay! Let’s get started.

And with that, we’re all done for another week. See you all next Sunday!

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Late Night Links – Sunday July 6th, 2014

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It’s that time of the week again!

And we’re done! See y’all next week, etc.

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Generations of Hope

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You may or may not know, but Flo and I are in the midst of a cycle of IVF right now in our attempt to conceive and create a more compact and portable version of me (or something similar). Flo has been blogging about the process. Not every aspect of the journey is wonderful, especially for Flo – but regardless of that and regardless of the outcome we’re fortunate to have the chance to participate.

IVF in Alberta is not funded by the government or any health plan, and it isn’t cheap. Even aside from the procedure itself, the drugs Flo has been required to inject herself with are a significant expense.

We’re very fortunate. We have two decent incomes and with a little cutting back here and there we’re able to afford treatment without any significant hardship. The drugs are covered by the healthcare plan our employer provides.

Not everyone is that lucky, and that’s where Generations of Hope comes in. This registered charity does two important things: it campaigns and petitions the Alberta legislature to fund IVF treatment in the province (this would actually save the taxpayer money, not cost money), and it provides a fund offering assistance to people who are unable to afford to pay for the treatment themselves.

This evening I made a donation to the organization, and I’d be delighted if you’d consider doing the same. I donated through ATBCares.com and as a result ATB matched 15% of my donation to an Alberta-based charity. It was also extremely easy: a couple of clicks and some credit card details were all it took.

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Thanks to esquire.com (and their source, applied optics), I’ve acquired some new knowledge today:

Revelations 21:8 calls hell a “lake which burneth of fire and brimstone.” To maintain liquid (lake) form and not vapor (cloud), molten brimstone or sulfur must be ≤ sulfur’s boiling point (444.6°c).

Isaiah 30:26 says heaven receives from the moon as much radiation as Earth from the Sun, plus “sevenfold as the light of 7 days.” The Stefan-Boltzmann 4th power law for radiation (H/E)4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of Earth (300°k), deems Heaven 798°k or 525°c.

Heaven is hotter than hell.

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