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Productivity Lessons From Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Farmer Boy”

Laura Ingalls Wilder is known for her series of childrens books depicting life as a pioneer in the American West in the late 19th century. While she wrote 9 books based on her own life, she also wrote one based on her husband’s life called “Farmer Boy”. The book itself, while educating us about how…

Getting Away from the Daily Digital Noise: A List of Time-tested Classics

FriendFeed, Twitter, email, Skype, Messenger, Blackberries and iPhones, blogs and e-zines. It’s all a little bit overwhelming sometimes, right? We’ve looked again and again at various ways to escape the barrage of online content so we can get more work done – but never so we can take a break and reconnect with other content. Perhaps…