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by Mike Levin on August 16, 2010
I just created a bio on myself for a sales pitch I’m going on. It provided me a unique opportunity to see my bio lined up against a number of others. Sheesh! It’s friggin’ time for me to stop being so modest, especially in light of this study that found out how much the odds [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 16, 2010
As I approach forty and fatherhood, I find myself contemplating how to keep my professional edge as my world changes around me. It occurs to me that my anchor in life has always been writing, in some form or another, be it hand-written journals, or some electronic format. And I made the determination to always [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 12, 2010
I read my custom tailored news every morning on Reeder on my iPhone, for its wonderful one-swoosh mark-as-read feature. I do this offline on the subway one-handedly, with my large Dunkin Donuts coffee in the other. Thanks to Friendfeed, I share my interesting articles as I go to Twitter with the app’s Google-share button, and [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 11, 2010
Hello again. I’m on the subway, tapping this out one handed on my iPhone. I have to be careful about writing about writing. It’s what I tend to do when I sit down on the subway without a desktop or Internet connection to screenshot and fact-check. It’s certainly hard to do the writing for my [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 10, 2010
Planning is important, but not in the fat business plan sense, but rather in the brief, memorizable one-page-plan sense. If you can’t make sense of a topic in one page, it’s too complicated. I learned this from Guy Kawasaki who learned this from John Scully who was a Pepsi executive running Apple during Job’s hiatus. [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 9, 2010
As I approach forty, I’m thinking through that one of the things I’m most dissatisfied with is the rate at which I get useful stuff done. I think that I spend too much time thinking, and not enough time doing. None-the-less, I see by looking around me that I tend to get larger, more impactful [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 9, 2010
Note: I’ve reversed my decision on this post. There’s not enough time in life to maintain multiple blogs. Focus! Fewer fronts! Less surface area! Telling a good story is one of the most important skills in life, and I constantly fall into the pitfall of making it too complex. People like short, easy-to-understand stories. My resistance to [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 9, 2010
This post is about the how the suburban mediocrity broke my heart, ruined a computer platform, and the learned lessons that have dramatically colored my life ever since. I barely escaped the suburban trap that swallowed up Commodore, thanks to the intervention of a friend who followed his dream to NY, and opened the door [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 5, 2010
With the MikeLev.in blog, I am gradually writing the book online that I wished had when switching to Linux. There are a bunch of truths I had difficulty realizing and overcoming. This post lays out those truths, and the way I dealt with them to help those who are perhaps thinking of following a similar [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 4, 2010
But wait! Now you’re open to being hacked through SSH you say? Not quite. Remember the virtual local area network (VLAN) that QEMU establishes for just itself and the host machine? Well, those VLAN addresses don’t exist on the actual LAN that your host PC or Mac is sitting on, and is therefore unreachable from [...]
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I am Mike Levin+, an Earned Media Optimizer, husband, daddy & Linux / Python hacker living on top of the hill on top of the island on top of the world. I put my stream-of-consciousness here in order to create greater commitment and consistency in pursuit of my goals.
