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We are living through a time that will bring merciless changes to in everything we do. Moore’s Law is now no longer just applicable to microchips; it’s bleeding into our lives and unless we have an awareness of the dangerous opportunities we face, we will become replaceable cogs in a mindless contraption. So here is a list (certainly not exclusive or exhaustive) of ten items I plan to put into action for the rest of my life:

1. Practice resurrection
2. Abandon fear as a strategy
3. Unlearn your prejudices every day
4. Look where you are in the Long Tail
5. Reject hope for presence of mind
6. Remember impermanence
7. Teach the young to forgive us
8. Become what you already are
9. Go where it hurts the most
10. Encourage natural intelligence before it’s artificial

This is my list for how to thrive through the torrential culture shocks that are quaking through our mutual lives. You may have completely different ideas about how to approach our time. Do you have a list? If you do, please post them into your comments.

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According to the San Fransisco CBS affiliate Twitter is the “cyber drug of choice”. Here’s a clip about Twitter that includes a talk with Robert Scoble about the service:

Kind of funny to watch. It ran in 2007 and it’s interesting to see how viral Twitter has become in the last year. I love how Scoble Twitters the story itself while its being produced.

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Twitter me your comments.

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A little inspiration from Indexed.com applied to the marketing of pharmaceuticals:

Now, it’s easy to conclude from this that the pharmaceutical business is shady; actually there are thousands of very concerned citizens with high ethical standards within the industry. What the diagram illustrates is the importance of informed regulatory policy, disciplined capitalist enterprise and rigorous scientific methodology.

Of course, it also shows how important your civic duties are to yourself.

Eat your veggies. Exercise. Rest.

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Furrier.org is claiming that Microsoft is planning to eek out Yahoo’s search engine business and, furthermore, that it plans to purchase Facebook. In light of Facebook’s efforts to block Google’s access to its data, this could make a lot of sense.

With the link between Google and Facebook broken, Microsoft could very well attempt to exploit the assets of Yahoo search, including its expert staff, to establish two pokes in the fire: search and social web.

Microsoft probably understands that in order to remain in the game, it will have to dominate social media. We’ll have to see how this story develops because it could one of the biggest stories of the decade.

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If you’re not using RSS by now, then you need to find a time machine and press FWD. But even if you are, few people realize that you can use RSS to improve the efficiency of your job search. If you don’t know anything about RSS read RSS Explained.

All you need to do to get the most up-to-date job search results is to find the career sites that you use most often and subscribe to their feeds. If the site doesn’t have a feed, you can have Google Reader do the subscribing for you as you surf the web with its subscribe bookmark:

1. Go to Manage Subscriptions on the bottom left side of the reader
2. Click the Goodies tab
3. Drag the Subscribe bookmark to your browser’s toolbar.

You can find everything you need to do to set up your career feed at at One Day One Job. 

And while you’re at it, subscribe to my feed to learn more tips on using the web to life better.

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