SKILLS & TOOLS — Quirky Blog Research. It’s the hero of any great Quirky submission. A thorough analysis of your invention’s competitive landscape has three key benefits: 1. It reveals whether or not your invention already exists. It’s no fun spending a lot of time coming up with a new product idea, only to find out that someone beat you to it. 2. 3. Now that we understand why doing your research before submitting is a good thing, let’s get into some best practices. Google should be your first stop right after you’ve thought up an invention. - Use web friendly words. - Try synonyms. - Keep searches short and sweet. - Use quotes to lock a phrase. - Search within a site. - Don’t forget “images” and “shopping.” Find more Google search tips here. Couldn’t find your invention online? - Amazon - international eCommerce site; largest in the United States - Kickstarter - global crowdfunding platform - Indiegogo - another international crowdfunding site - This is why I’m broke - online magazine - Skymall - shopping magazine
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How To Go From Dreaming To Doing: 4 Steps To Motivation You have stuff you know you should be doing. But it doesn’t get done. You need to go from dreaming to doing — but it’s hard. You want to accomplish more at work, hit the gym, get a new job or study harder at school… but it’s not happening. I’ve talked about strategies to make challenges easier like the 20 second rule. What gets you going when you’re not motivated to reach those longer term goals? There’s a solution that can help you not only make change easier, but boost motivation. Yes, WOOP. WishOutcomeObstaclePlan Can a method with the silliest name in social science really work? People who say they want to exercise more and use the WOOP method do dramatically better: How does it work? The first step is wishing. Here’s how to do it right. 1) Wish (But Don’t Stop There) Everything starts with a wish. Having a positive attitude is pretty much essential because a negative attitude makes us more likely to quit — or to never start in the first place. Why? Want to lose weight? 4) Make A Plan Tags:
GitHub - miloyip/game-programmer: A Study Path for Game Programmer Linux Newbie Guide: Shortcuts And Commands [an error occurred while processing this directive] Linux Shortcuts and Commands: Linux Newbie Administrator Guideby Stan and Peter Klimas This is a practical selection of the commands we use most often. Legend:<> = single special or function key on the keyboard. Notes for the UNIX Clueless:1. 7.1 Linux essential shortcuts and sanity commands <Ctrl><Alt><F1>Switch to the first text terminal. <Ctrl><Alt><Fn> (n=1..6) Switch to the nth text terminal. ttyPrint the name of the terminal in which you are typing this command. <Ctrl><Alt><F7>Switch to the first GUI terminal (if X-windows is running on this terminal). <Ctrl><Alt><Fn> (n=7..12) Switch to the nth GUI terminal (if a GUI terminal is running on screen n-1). <Tab>(In a text terminal) Autocomplete the command if there is only one option, or else show all the available options. <ArrowUp>Scroll and edit the command history. <Shift><PgUp>Scroll terminal output up. <Shift><PgDown>Scroll terminal output down. exitLogout. . .. lsmod(As root. .
Decision Making: The #1 Secret Of Astronauts, Samurai, Navy SEALs, and Psychopaths We all make a lot of bad decisions. With careers: More than half of teachers quit their jobs within four years. In fact, one study in Philadelphia schools found that a teacher was almost two times more likely to drop out than a student. In our jobs: A study showed that when doctors reckoned themselves “completely certain” about a diagnosis, they were wrong 40% of the time. And in our personal lives: …an estimated 61,535 tattoos were reversed in the United States in 2009. So how can we all make better decisions? It’s “arousal control.” That’s a fancy word for keeping a cool head. In their book, Decisive, Chip and Dan Heath identify short term emotion as one of the primary causes of bad decisions. Astronauts, samurai, Navy SEALs, and psychopaths. 150 Miles Above The Earth Is No Place For Panic It’s the 1960’s and NASA is going to send people to the moon for the first time. How do you make sure astronauts don’t freak out in the cold darkness of space where there’s no help? You’re NASA. No. Nope.
100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH.