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		<title>Set Up Your Own Google-Style 20% Time To Try New Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google lets its employees spend one day each work week focusing on their own projects, a practice that&#8217;s delivered 50 per cent of Google&#8217;s offerings, including Gmail. Tech blog WebWorkerDaily suggests mixing up your work schedule by setting aside your own 20 per cent time.
Photo by Pingdom.
The author, Celine Roque, points to several benefits of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Motivated At Work With A Status Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Trapani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panic is a software company that makes useful tools like my personal favourite, Transmit for the Mac. They&#8217;ve also made a beautiful project status display, which keeps their team on top of what they&#8217;re working on and keeps everyone motivated.
The board is actually an internal web page that auto-updates support email queue numbers, how far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacGyver Of The Day: Limor &#8220;Ladyada&#8221; Fried</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Torrone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior Editor of MAKE magazine Phil Torrone joins us to celebrate more modern-day MacGyvers as we continue DIY week at Lifehacker. Today he celebrates mischief maker and non-lethal weapons engineer (her flashlight can make you throw up) Limor &#8220;Ladyada&#8221; Fried.

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Video above: An episode of MAKE television where Ladyada shows how she developed, designed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Set Up A Praise Folder To Track Successes For Performance Reviews, Resume Boosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dongola7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week we discussed creating a &#8220;Never Again&#8221; folder to track mistakes. Reader dongola7 offers another great suggestion for tracking the opposite &#8212; your successes &#8212; with a Praise folder.
Photo by TheTruthAbout&#8230;.
At the office, I&#8217;ve taken to maintaining a &#8220;Praise&#8221; folder in my email client. I put all positive emails from managers and customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacGyver Of The Day: Instructables&#8217; Christy Canida And Eric Wilhelm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Torrone</dc:creator>
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Ed. note: Senior Editor of MAKE magazine Phil Torrone joins us to celebrate more modern-day MacGyvers as we continue DIY week at Lifehacker. Today&#8217;s makers: Christy Canida and Eric Wilhelm, the DIY gurus behind the much-loved Instructables.
It&#8217;s hard to describe Instructables. It&#8217;s usually called &#8220;the world&#8217;s biggest show and tell&#8221;, where users &#8220;crowdsource&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Managers And Freelancers Can Learn From The Grateful Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hoover</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In between writing hits like &#8220;Sugar Magnolia&#8221; and &#8220;Franklin&#8217;s Tower&#8221;, it turns out The Grateful Dead were pretty shrewd businessmen. The Atlantic took at look at the band to find out what managers and freelancers can learn from them.
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Music professor Fredric Lieberman and sociologist Rebecca G. Adams have studied the Grateful Dead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacGyver Of The Day: Mad Scientists Lenore Edman, Windell Oskay</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Torrone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed. note: Senior Editor of MAKE magazine Phil Torrone joins us to celebrate a few modern-day MacGyvers as we continue DIY week at Lifehacker. Today&#8217;s maker(s): EVIL MAD SCIENTIST LABORATORIES, the dynamic duo Lenore M. Edman and Windell H. Oskay.
Pictured above: A bar bot, made with an open-source hardware gaming kit and hacked breast pumps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacGyver Of The Day: HAM Radio Hacker Diana Eng</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2010/02/macgyver-of-the-day-ham-radio-hacker-diana-eng/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Torrone</dc:creator>
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Ed. note: All this week, Senior Editor of MAKE magazine Phil Torrone is joining us to highlight a few modern day MacGyvers as we continue celebrating the DIY ethic at Lifehacker. Today&#8217;s maker: HAM radio enthusiast Diana Eng.
Hi Lifehackers! MAKE is best known for sharing all the goodness of making things for yourself, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worse Is Better, So Start Simple And Go From There</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an essay entitled &#8220;Worse Is Better&#8221;, noted programmer Richard P. Gabriel says: 
The concept known as &#8220;worse is better&#8221; holds that in software making (and perhaps in other arenas as well) it is better to start with a minimal creation and grow it as needed.

The &#8220;worse is better&#8221; philosophy (which you can read more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus On Eight-Minute Increments To Beat Back Chores</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re tired of the boom-bust cycle of getting chores done you might want to consider adopting the Eight-Minute Rule as the guiding force in taming your chores and tedious tasks.
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The Eight-Minute Rule is roughly the household/chore equivalent of David Allen&#8217;s Two-Minute Rule. For those of you unfamiliar with David Allen&#8217;s Getting Things [...]]]></description>
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