Tip #3: Design everything you do

During my first internship out of college, Stella Lai gave me this tip and it has been the best professional advice I ever received. Try to practice this tip as literally as possible. The obvious areas are how you dress and how your house/apartment/room is organized. I would suggest not stopping there. Your emails should be written/composed clearly and beautifully. Your conversations with individuals should be designed through how you listen, how you maintain eye contact, how you respond (both spoken and unspoken). Everything you do should have a reason, no matter how small. Design requires constant practice, this is a great way to keep growing. ~ P.J. Onori

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Pibbles!

Happy National Pitbull Awareness Day!!!

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DIY: Indispensable goods

We’ve lost something. As we’ve become more efficient at producing everything, its become cheaper and cheaper to just buy. My iron just broke. I dropped it on the ground and it shattered the water reservoir. But I didn’t hesitate to immediately order a new one from Amazon that will be here tomorrow thanks to free 2-day shipping included with my Amazon Prime membership. I’m scrapping all my furniture and buying new decorations for my apartment. I wasn’t thinking twice about it. Then I saw this video:

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Oh, The Places You'll Go!

You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles cross weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place…

…for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or the waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for the wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Everyone is just waiting.

NO! That’s not for you!

Somehow you’ll escape all that waiting and staying You’ll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.

With banner flip-flapping, once more you’ll ride high! Ready for anything under the sky. Ready because you’re that kind of a guy!

Oh, the places you’ll go!

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The Google Doodle

The First Ever Google Doodle

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Thanks Wake!

Its too bad but I wish him well. He was a stalwart in the dugout for as long as I can remember. It was always thrilling to watch him pitch. Some nights that ball danced, others it didn’t. But it was always exciting. Thanks Wake for a solid 17 years.

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GOTCHA!

One year ago today, I adopted this adorable little American Staffordshire Terrier mix puppy.

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Google Handwrite

Whoa. Google just launched a writing feature implemented in all HTML5/CSS3. Its called Handwrite. It allows you to write anywhere on the screen and it inputs into the search box on Google’s home page.

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Well, I guess I'm a psychopath then...

…guilty as charged. I pulled the plug on my Facebook account almost a year ago. I had come to find that Facebook was a big time suck. I’d sit down to do something productive - say, work on this site - and find myself looking up an hour later without having accomplished anything. I wanted to actually do something. What I’ve come to find is that it didn’t really help a whole lot in that respect as I’ve managed to find other time wasters. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely waste less time, but I wouldn’t say that I got most of that time back. Instead, I’ve found I’ve forged more meaningful relationships with those I do keep in touch with. I don’t need to get every detail about your life, and if I did, I’d seek you out for it. If I don’t, next time we catch up, you’ll give me the good parts - hopefully.

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Well, I guess I'm a psychopath then...

I loved Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma. This is simply brilliant. I’d kill to take him out for lunch some day. This is further motivation to get myself back to school. Hear that HBS? I’m coming.

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