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Disconnecting to Keep Distraction Away

Friday, November 10th, 2006

I’m back from AYE. The last session I attended was Dwayne Phillips’s on “Distraction”. Distraction is a recurring enemy here, always ready to strike, to divert me from the task at hand. I’ve recently been using “disconnection” to fight distraction and focus on an intense task for a few hours, and noticed the same notion […]

Fewer accounts. Fewer points of failure.

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

I’ve recently been working on having fewer accounts, at fewer banks, fewer lines of credit, etc.  This is in an attempt to reduce the accidental complexity of my life, as well as reduce the likelihood of the identity theft.
Imagine my joy, in reading Will Shipley’s E-TRADE nightmare, that one of my former accounts that got […]