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What is it like being a woman of colour? Scaachi deploys her razor-sharp humor to percentage her fears, outrages and mortifying stories as an outsider growing up in Canada. Her subjects range from shaving her knuckles in grade college, to a buying experience long past horribly awry, to dealing with net trolls, to feeling out of vicinity at an Indian wedding ceremony (as an Indian lady), to parsing the trajectory of fears and anxieties that pressed upon her immigrant mother and father and bled down a technology....

Web forums: A traditional way. Able readers to ask questions and discuss about topics. A community blog: Able readers to be a publisher in the form of blogging – to share their views and ask questions. Mailing list, or Google Groups: Similar to web forums, but more towards in email style. I want to see if it is the right time on doing something like this – It would be great to hear if you are interested on participating in this, and if you like to help out – for instance taking on a moderator role....

I suspect most of what we publish here appeals to your desire to over-clock your personal CPU. You want tips and tricks to get things done faster / better / more effectively. True? But if you go with this poorly drawn analogy, it really opens up all kinds of topics to consider. The question then becomes: if we were rewriting your personal OS, improving your bus speeds, offering new interface protocols… what would you choose?...

My stomach turned just a little when I read this, because I’m not sure the last backup I took. After reading this through, I’m surely going to implement a better backup regimen, and I’ll use this guide to do it. How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently – [Sitening]

“It Will Be a Piece of Cake” However, the colleague convinced me that the committee would require no effort at all. All I would have to do is show up at the meetings once a quarter and contribute my ideas there. This seemed acceptable and I wanted to come across as can-do, so I signed on. Well, imagine my surprise when the committee turned out to be a ton of work....

1. To succeed in life, you need two things: Ignorance and confidence 2. Think Less, Do More 3. No matter how you feel. Get up, dress up, show up and never give up. 4. Don’t let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big 5. You only fail when you stop trying 6. Be a flamingo in a flock of pigeons 7. Nothing can dim the light that shine from within 8....

Without resting, you become less successful To always be productive and to do our best at performing every task, the key is to let our body and mind recover from everyday obligations imposed by our jobs. If you look at how we work, we can see why it’s important to let our bodies recharge. We tend to deprive ourselves of sleep in order to get more things done, but we don’t realize to what extent we harm our bodies and that it will have the opposite effect....

How to be more persuasive Although you look dashingly smart and eloquent, unfortunately, focusing too much on how you present your pitch instead of whether what’s being said makes sense or not, will not be a boon for your power of persuasion. However, having said that, being presentable is still an important element to be persuasive but its importance is being superseded by having a clear, logical and irrefutable argument. If you’re looking for concrete solutions on how to be more persuasive, here are 7 fallacies you should stop committing as they can weaken your power of persuasion....

Try the easiest way to do something first and see if it works before you go on to something more complicated Don’t get caught up in the process and lose track of what you’re trying to accomplish Divide up work into chunks small enough and clear enough so that you can actually get to work on them It’s an interesting reminder to step back and consider the end before instrumenting the middle of every process with our GTD tools....

Home environment is not always conducive to work and requires organizing not only your time but also your workspace in a way that a balance is struck between the two. You naturally want to do justice to both your family and work. It is not all that difficult to manage your work and family / children when you are working from home. If you get down thinking about it, the only difference is that instead of getting up in the morning to dress and leave for office you are working at home....

Forget stripping and finding a “Sugar Daddy” to try and survive your college days. Here are 20 unique ways to increase the money in your pocket as a college student: 1. Sell your essays online via Kindle Direct Publishing 2. Donate blood or other body fluids and such for money or gift cards Although certain FDA rules disallow paying cash for blood, there are ways that capitalists have found to reward blood donators with gift cards or other incentives....

Those are good tips. If you are serious on getting useful tips only, just skip the MIT VIEW :) 2. AVOID ISOLATION. Don’t do everything alone! Develop or renew intimacies with friends and loved ones. Closeness not only brings new insights, but also is anathema to agitation and depression. * MIT VIEW: Shut your office door and lock it from the inside so no one will distract you. They’re just trying to hurt your productivity....

RELATED: What Drinking Coffee Does to You So what can coffee do for you? Well, 46% of workers claim they are overall less productive without their java, 20% of coffee drinkers claim that it allows them to better socialize with their co-workers and 10% say that it helped them focus before giving a presentation. 5% of respondents even claimed that buying clients coffee helped them gain the favor of those clients....

1. Who can I help today? By default, we can often be fairly selfish human beings. We often look at situations when it comes to helping people and think, “What’s in it for me?” or, “I scratch your back, you scratch mine.” Truthfully, that is an extremely unhealthy way to look at the world, and it breeds selfish and unhappy people. When you are constantly seeking a reward for a simple act of kindness, you’re ruining yourself spiritually....

Is productivity contagious? – [DavidCo] If you had a much more productive environment, full of people who enjoyed and reveled in keeping organized, wouldn’t that increase your own levels? Well what about all those social networks? It’s not the same as having the people around you and in your workplace affecting your productivity, but it could surely put a positive spin on things. I’ve been looking at a few groups that focus on GTD....

Paul’s list enables you to call many companies and directly route to an operator. Here is the introduction from him: The main list created by Paul is US based. However he also created a user submitted list which contains companies around the world. a senior citizen who does not ever want to talk with computers. someone hard of hearing or in a noisy environment or on a bad cell phone connection, where communication with a computer is always more difficult than talking with an actual human....

Google is affecting your life more than you think. Apart from being a reliable search engine, Google offers a wide range of tools from website analytics to document management. We rely on a variety of Google tools on a daily basis. The question is, what would happen if they didn’t exist? For a preview on what could possibly happen, checkout the interesting infographic above. One of the first things to go is instant information....

In one study, about 60% of Spanish men interviewed were worried that future baldness would affect their self-esteem. If you are going bald, there may be hereditary factors involved. Or it may simply be a result of medication you’re taking, problems with your thyroid, chemotherapy or some immune disorder. Very often, though, people get into bad routines which can aggravate hair loss and increase their chances of going bald. It is estimated that people lose up to 100 hairs a day....

via makingniceinthemidwest.com Try this fun decorating idea if you need to save space. All you need is an old pillowcase, a drill, hook and screws, embroidery hoop and some ribbon! 2. Sweater Pillow via honeybearlane.com These beautiful sweater pillows are made using an old sweater, fabric, and foam for the middle. Quick to make, and perfect to add some color to your bedroom or living room. 3. Create Over-sized Letters Using Paper Mache via 346living....