The Horizon

A nice piece on laziness over at lifehack.org. Some helpful tips for controlling laziness. I personally would say skip the stress-related tips. In my case, I don’t have the time to be thinking about whether or not I’m stressed. Certainly there is an element of recognizing goals. This can be a helpful way of growing productivity.

Here is one of the tips that I generally disagree with, at least in terms of battling “overlaziness:”

Have “Lazy” Days. I put “lazy” in quotations because the end result is often the opposite. Having days where you try to do things as slowly as possible can keep you focused on the days when tasks threaten to overwhelm you.

Check out the article, nonetheless, because it has a lot of useful tips.

There is an amazing article written by Mark Pilgrim about the problems with DRM and books.  It revolves around issues with the current Amazon Kindle and specifically some of the marketing that the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was doing.  This is a really good juxtaposition of some thoughts that have been running through everyone’s minds in regards to all of this.  I am glad to see that at least the music industry is starting to realize what a failure DRM has been. Let’s hope that as a people we remind Amazon that we don’t just hate Music DRMed, we hate the idea of DRM.