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04
2008
Posted by: Luke in blogging, business, philosophy of success, writing, tags: attitude, blog, blogger, business perspective, business resource, emotion, environments, feelings, friendliness, mindset, money, passion, personal perspective, personality, pretense, stature, writing style
Blogging about yourself is easy. It encourages you to give personal opinions and open up about your feelings. Unfortunately, this means less time spent talking about facts that you know for certain, or that are useful for the readers. Furthermore, it can easily detract from your sense of authority. There’s a reason scientific papers don’t start out with “In my opinion…”
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04
2008
Posted by: Luke in business, tags: article submissions, blank spot, blog, blogging, calender, email, encouragement, images, optimization, technorati tags, tweaking
Today marks the 31st day of daily posting on this blog. I have decided to give myself a break, as a psychological reward and to prevent burn-out. For the next 7 days I will not be publishing any new posts on this blog. From the 6th through 12th of April, 2008, there will be a blank spot in the calender. Then it’s back to the daily grind!
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04
2008
Posted by: Luke in personal development, tags: adam smith, benefit, com blog, distinction, economics, evil things, good person, goodness, greyworker, intelligent person, invisible hand, job, lightworker, motivation, motivational force, nasty things, personal choice, polarity, self interest, steve pavlina, stevepavlina, terrible things
About a year ago, Steve Pavlina posted several articles about a weird little idea he had embraced called Polarity. It involves being more focused on either others or yourself, as your main motivational force in life. The former is called a Lightworker and the latter a Darkworker. But he also makes it clear that the distinction is not about good and evil. It’s just a personal choice for a long-term path in life.
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04
2008
Posted by: Luke in personal development, philosophy of success, tags: anthropology, bad behavior, betrayal, close relationships, coping mechanism, criticism, denial, dishonesty, focus, forgiveness, idealized, infractions, jealousy, optimism, pessimism, self deception, slap, stubbornness, trusting relationships, vernacular
Reading over at CogiNews, this article hit my eye.
In the modern vernacular, to say someone is “in denial” is to deliver a savage combination punch: one shot to the belly for the cheating or drinking or bad behavior, and another slap to the head for the cowardly self-deception of pretending it’s not a problem.
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04
2008
Posted by: Luke in blogging
I have a request for all you savvy blog readers out there. Please tell me what you love, or hate, about my blog. I’m all ears. Be as critical as you want.
Some things that I’m still working on at present:
Theme. Hopefully this new theme will bug me less than the old one. Don’t get me wrong, it was a great theme — but it had some things about it that didn’t seem professional to me. For example, it put the H2 tag in lowercase instead of titlecase. Also, the blue-purple color really didn’t seem good to me, so I replaced it with black.
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Some people are apparently born heartless. They focus so hard on their own ego that they don’t have a clue how to treat others. Some of them are the most wealthy in the world. Jon writes:
Frequently, they’ll:
- Leave behind a trail of broken marriages and forgotten children
- Lose the life savings of their friends and relatives on an ingenious but doomed business
- Refuse to lend anyone money or give to charity
- Avoid unnecessary expenses to the point of miserliness
- Treat everyone that can’t help them as if they’re expendable
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Blogging just doesn’t suit me. You sit around and write long posts with no real purpose, trying to make money. Well I’m fed up with it. You can’t make money blogging. The big guys have already taken the market share. Nobody’s interested in what I have to say.
Making 10k per week is a sham. Bilge! Who makes that kind of money? John Cow, er, John CHOW doesn’t even make that kind of money! You can’t ever make 10k blogging. In fact, unless you’re born with some kind of special mutant super-power — or a huge inheritance — you can’t make 10k in a week. It’s just not possible.
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03
2008
Posted by: Luke in blogging, tags: alfalfa leaf, cold climate, cold weather, eisenia fetida, google, home, job, last time, leaf cutter bees, making money online, nanotech, niches, Ping Optimizer, query number, raising worms, red worms, search engines, search query, searcher, traffic
Surprisingly, the one thing I get the most attention for from the search engines is something I wrote one brief piece on, namely Raising Red Worms. Here’s all of my results. Note: anything with “10kluke” in it was just me checking.
| Search Query | Number of requests |
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| 1. | 10kluke | 5 | | 2. | maxblogpress ping optimizer | 1 | | 3. | the posting daily | 1 | | 4. | raise european nightcrawlers | 1 | | 5. | raising redworms | 1 | | 6. | redworms idaho | 1 | | 7. | raising european nightcrawlers | 1 | | 8. | students raising red worms | 1 | | 9. | publish ical mac to google calendar | 1 | | 10. | how to keep and raise red worms at home | 1 | | 11. | http://10kluke.info | 1 | | 12. | info on red worms | 1 | | 13. | eisenia fetida idaho | 1 | | 14. | red wrigglers cold climate | 1 | | 15. | raising worms at home | 1 |
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03
2008
Posted by: Luke in blogging, tags: bam, blog, blogosphere, dozens, half a day, insightful comments, pagerank, popularity, realising, traffic, tuk, wasting your time
The title for this post was “borrowed” from a recent TUK posting — where you’d better post a quick comment or you’ll fail at life.  Anyway, he makes some great points:
I will tell you one thing right now - if you read posts and don’t comment, you are wasting your time. I used to be like that too - I used to bounce from post to post in the blogosphere, just skimming, rarely commenting… before realising that ultimately, I wasn’t doing anything of use to improve my own blog. By commenting, you are.
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03
2008
Posted by: Luke in futurism, science, tags: animal models, bill watson, disappointments, human body parts, human fibroblasts, human limbs, mammals, national inquirer, regeneration, rinn, salamander, salamanders, sciam, science community, scientific american, stanford university, striking contrast, wound healing
One of the great disappointments of our generation is how slowly science seems to progress in certain areas. For example, we know for a fact that it is theoretically possible to re-grow human limbs. Our bodies are not all that dissimilar to salamanders on a biomolecular level. And yet, it still has not been done. Is this not the 21st century? Is this not the nanotech era?
From: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=regrowing-human-limbs
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