The cycle of work-procrastination This might seem rather familiar to you: Sit down to do Thing 1. [Thing 1 is annoying, boring, or intimidating.] “Oh look, a Completely Unrelated Thing!” [Obsessively work on Completely Unrelated Thing until you’re out of time.] And, repeat as needed. But today I found myself doing something rather interesting! I […]
Author: Jen McCown
The book that made me love goal-setting
Pete Wilkinson’s book “Unstoppable” finally made visualizations and goals make sense to me. Here’s a review!
1983 “War Games” and a history of passwords
In the trivia for the movie “War Games” (1983): “As a result, the industry was forced to make several seemingly obvious changes like creating accounts with default rather than no password on newly installed systems. This is because prior to the film’s release, it was just assumed most computer systems would only be accessed by […]