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Growth is not magic.

Caneel Joyce — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:23:22 +0000

There’s been lots of hype lately about growth and growth hacking. I’ve even heard such nonsense as “we can turn on virality whenever we want to.” (Um, if it were that easy….. never mind.) The truth about user acquisition is that while there are some fundamental principles at work, there is no substitute for having …

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Seven Things I Want in a Job

Caneel Joyce — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:45:22 +0000

As you know, I’ve been on the job hunt lately. Just like changing countries, moving apartments and other big changes, a job search forces you to get concrete about what you want your new life to be like. And because I love working, my job is a big part that vision. I want to make …

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Self-Control is Exhaustible (Video)

Caneel Joyce — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:44:11 +0000

Why Change Is So Hard: Self-Control Is Exhaustible | Fast Company (by Dan Heath) Also see the pioneering work of psychologist Roy Baumeister and the concept of “ego strength” (I love his article about how “Self Control is Like a Muscle”).

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I want to share ideas more freely

Caneel Joyce — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:24:00 +0000

…and so I am going to start writing MORE often LESS perfectly. Not to imply in any way that I have ever achieved anything close to the P-word! It’s an elusive self illusion maintained to protect the ego…. so I must let it go and practice what I preach and share my ideas before they’re …

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Google Sync: Holding Hands with Microsoft to Make Apple Jealous?

Caneel Joyce — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:37:00 +0000

If there’s one big company I love, it’s Google. No Apple. No Google. Oy vey! Until now, the two usually got along quite well, with many Google apps becoming backbones for the iPhone and eliminating we Mac users’ grumpy reliance on all things Microsoft. Many Google lovers love the Mac and vice-versa. But now it …

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Petition for a Secretary of the Arts

Caneel Joyce — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:10:00 +0000

Few things inspire hope, change, or freedom like the arts. As the arts and all forms of innovation and design are increasingly threatened in the U.S., so is our nation’s future economy, our health and welfare, and our cultural and moral legacy. Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a …

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Can’t quit phunk driving cold turkey!

Caneel Joyce — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000

The New York Times just published a review of scientific studies on the dangers of driving under the influence of cell phone usage, or phunk driving), which is apparently just as dangerous of drunk driving. The National Safety Council urges an all-out ban of phunk driving. According to the Janet Froetscher, the council’s president and …

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Creativity within constraints: the six sentence story

Caneel Joyce — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:42:00 +0000

A participant in a recent Haas@Work group I was facilitating (Amy Hornstein) pointed me to SixSentences, a blog for writers of six sentence-long short stories. The elegance and creative insight of some of these stories is incredible. They have even put together a book of these stories. There are several benefits to working within this …

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Organizing your academic job market search

Caneel Joyce — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:37:00 +0000

As many of you know, I’ve been on the academic job market this Fall, so far with success (multiple offers in hand at the moment, and more interviews on the agenda). Thought I’d share a process that worked well for me. The academic job market is challenging in many ways, but I didn’t expect it …

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Ordering Chaos: Reverse Outlining Useful After Freewriting

Caneel Joyce — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:24:00 +0000

Sometimes I have so many thoughts written up but a hard time putting them into a concise argument. To create order from chaos, I have learned to love a technique called Reverse Outlining. In reverse outlining, you start with all of your scraps and freewriting. Print it up, and chunk it into meaningful units (topics, …

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