30 Sep 2013
Belle

Quantified Self weekly links: Meet the woman who wears 21 fitness trackers

The Quantified Self space is moving so fast that it can be hard to keep up, so here are some of the best links we found in the past week about making and breaking habits and tracking your life.

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1. The Extremely Quantified Self: Meet Rachel Kalmar ...

05 Mar 2013
Belle

Fair doesn’t always look the same

Amanda Palmer’s excellent TED talk has been making the rounds on the web lately, and for good reason. From her post-college day-job as a street statue to her [massively successful Kickstarter campaign][1], Amanda has made a point of being unafraid to ask for the things she wants and ...
03 Mar 2013
Belle

2 minutes really can make a difference

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Leo Babauta wrote a post recently on Zen Habits about—unsurprisingly— building habits. One of his four points really stood out to me, even though I’ve heard it time and time again.

Actually doing the habit is much more important than how much you do.

Leo’s ...

01 Mar 2013
Belle

How it feels when someone has your back

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In light of having just read The Oatmeal's take on the misuse of the word literally and being of a similar, grammar-appreciative ilk, I'll preface by saying that I'm not writing about the practice of owning another human's spinal column. I have no idea ...

21 Feb 2013
Belle

Learning to code with a purpose

Let’s teach kids to code, says one of Scratch’s developers, Mitch Resnick. He tells a great story about teaching a student how to use variables, because the student needed a variable for the project he was creating. Mitch was surprised when the student thanked him profusely afterwards. “How ...