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Life Simplification: Year-End Deletion of Social Media Accounts

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Bruce Keener

About a month ago I deleted my Google +, Tumblr, and Posterous accounts. When I announced on Google + and Twitter that I would be doing that, Joe Grant asked why, and here is my (slightly modified) reply: I think … Continue reading →

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Too Typical?

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Bruce Keener

P.Z. Meyers over at Pharyngula has noted that Sarah Palin has quit her bus tour while only half-way through it: “She’s done. She’s been on this cross-country bus tour to promote her folksy ways, and now she has quit halfway … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on Time

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Bruce Keener

Over the recent holidays, I caught myself daydreaming about my own funeral. I pictured one of my friends saying “That Keener sure did know a lot.” With another friend saying “Yes, but it would have been better if he known … Continue reading →

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Voluntary Tax: A Way for Buffett to Put Up or Shut Up

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Billionaire Warren Buffett has often said that he believes all wealthy people, including himself, should pay more tax. A recent instance of his making such remarks is noted in this ABC This Week post. I suppose he’s serious about this. … Continue reading →

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Why Twitter, Facebook, etc Seem So Addictive

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Many theories have been offered for why Twitter and Facebook and [fill in the blank] seem so addictive. One of the theories that makes a lot of sense to me was recently offered by Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational. … Continue reading →

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Being a Possibilian

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Bruce Keener

David Eagleman, the neuroscientist who wrote Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, calls himself a possibilian. Basically, instead of adapting a belief about the afterlife, he likes to think of what the possibilities are, from no afterlife to a reincarnation … Continue reading →

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Your Inner Voice

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Bruce Keener

I like to periodically read the Commencement address that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford in June 2005. He gave the address not long after learning that he had pancreatic cancer and that the initial prognosis was just a few months … Continue reading →

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Donate $33 to LIVESTRONG and Get ‘Delivering Happiness’ Free

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, and author of the book Delivering Happiness, has worked out a deal with Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG grass roots cancer organization so that you get Tony’s new book with a $33 donation to LIVESTRONG. How can … Continue reading →

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Are We Too Dependent on Mobile Phones?

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Bruce Keener

The signal to my iPhone dropped to ZERO in the waiting room of a medical facility the other day. I almost panicked, wondering “what if someone in my family has an emergency?” I was going to be there two hours, … Continue reading →

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A Lesson from Retirement: Exercise

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Bruce Keener

When I retired, I knew about the importance of keeping active, both mentally and physically. I took care of the mental part, reading a ton of books, working on the computer, and doing some consulting. In fact, I probably overdid … Continue reading →

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