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	<title>Fred Yankowski</title>
	<link>http://fred.yankowski.com</link>
	<description>my personal blog</description>
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		<title>Making better decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Scientist mag has a May 2007 article on &#8220;Top 10 ways to make better decisions&#8220;.  Here is what I got from it.

Don&#8217;t fear the consequences
 Rather than looking inwards and imagining how a given outcome might make you feel, try to find someone who has made the same decision or choice, and see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fred.yankowski.com/2010/03/14/making-better-decisions/</link>
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		<title>blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog has languished.  I tend to put more stuff on Facebook these days (http://www.facebook.com/fredcy).
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		<link>http://fred.yankowski.com/2010/03/13/blogging/</link>
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		<title>Predicting happiness when making choices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;Happiness:  Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth&#8221; by Diener and Biswas-Diener, 2008:

There are several predictable thinking errors people commonly make that lead them to incorrectly predict their own future emotions in general, and future happiness in particular:

Focusing on a single salient feature or period of time in a choice, rather than looking at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fred.yankowski.com/2009/08/01/predicting-happiness-when-making-choices/</link>
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		<title>Your brain is like a pile of sand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain
your brain operates on the edge of chaos. Though much of the time it runs in an orderly and stable way, every now and again it suddenly and unpredictably lurches into a blizzard of noise.
systems on the edge of chaos are said to be in a state of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fred.yankowski.com/2009/07/14/your-brain-is-like-a-pile-of-sand/</link>
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		<title>Work that can&#8217;t be done over the wire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Heidegger and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
[According to Princeton economist Alan Blinder] the labor market of the next decades won&#8217;t necessarily be divided between the highly educated and the less-educated: &#8220;The critical divide in the future may instead be between those types of work that are easily deliverable through a wire (or via wireless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fred.yankowski.com/2009/05/21/work-that-cant-be-done-over-the-wire/</link>
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		<title>Distraction and Attention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From In Defense of Distraction:
“Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement,” [Merlin Mann] continues. “It’s an indisputable receipt for your existence. And if you allow that to be squandered by other people who are as bored as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fred.yankowski.com/2009/05/20/distraction-and-attention/</link>
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		<title>Positive emotions make us more vulnerable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From What Makes Us Happy?:
&#8230; positive emotions make us more vulnerable than negative ones. One reason is that they’re future-oriented. Fear and sadness have immediate payoffs—protecting us from attack or attracting resources at times of distress. Gratitude and joy, over time, will yield better health and deeper connections—but in the short term actually put us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fred.yankowski.com/2009/05/12/positive-emotions-make-us-more-vulnerable/</link>
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		<title>Self-control via strategic allocation of attention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Don&#8217;t in the New Yorker:
What, then, determined self-control? Mischel’s conclusion, based on hundreds of hours of observation, was that the crucial skill was the “strategic allocation of attention.” Instead of getting obsessed with the marshmallow—the “hot stimulus”—the patient children distracted themselves by covering their eyes, pretending to play hide-and-seek underneath the desk, or singing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fred.yankowski.com/2009/05/11/self-control-via-strategic-allocation-of-attention/</link>
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		<title>Calendar as information central</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think Scott Adams is right, &#8220;the biggest software revolution of the future is that the calendar will be the organizing filter for most of the information flowing into your life&#8221;.  Sharing calendars is still too hard, and when we solve that problem I expect it to be hugely useful.  I expected shared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fred.yankowski.com/2009/05/08/calendar-as-information-central/</link>
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		<title>Tired, or energized?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From an essay by Milton Glaser:
&#8220;&#8230; there is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your relationship with them. Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fred.yankowski.com/2009/05/04/tired-or-energized/</link>
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