From the monthly archives:

January 2010

How to Focus on Your Goals and Achieve Your Dreams

January 24, 2010
How to keep your goals in focus

Setting goals is easy. Everyone can decide to lose 20 lbs, write a book or run a marathon. Sadly, few people will ever reach their initial goals. We often settle for lesser versions of our ambitions: we lose 5 lbs, write a few pages or run 4-5 miles. Sure, it’s a big improvement and we [...]

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Three Simple Words That Will Solve Complex Problems

January 8, 2010
Three words that will help you lift the world

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. -Archimedes Some things are just too complex to fit in our head all at once. We dive head first into them and break our neck on a pool of ice. We don’t understand these problems. [...]

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How to Encrypt Your Laptop Computer and Hide Your Secret Brownies Recipe

January 4, 2010
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What would happen if you lost your laptop computer? Do you have any reasons to be worried about a stranger having access to all your company files or personal photo albums stored on your hard drive? Or maybe you just want to make sure nobody ever gets his hands on your secret brownies recipe? Encrypting [...]

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How to Use Mind Mapping to Get Out of the Hedge Maze

January 3, 2010
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Mind mapping is a simple technique that, when combined with brainstorming, makes your creative juices flow more freely. Brainstorming plays an important part in the work I do in software development. I use it all the time to find solutions to engineering problems. It also plays a big role in finding new ideas, and in [...]

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Welcome!

January 1, 2010
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Hello! My name is Phil Starn and I am a lead software engineer working in the video game industry. I started this blog to share my findings and my thoughts on personal development and productivity. I am by no mean an expert on these topics and I’m looking forward to learning a lot on this [...]

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