Every year since we started the site back in 2008, we’ve done an annual holiday gift guide, highlighting manly, useful, classic, and unique gifts an Art of Manliness man might want to find under the tree. This year, I wanted to do something a little different: using the same criteria to compile an edition entirely
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Chad Mureta runs his seven-figure app business from his iPhone. (Photo: Jorge Quinteros). I first met Chad Mureta in Napa Valley in 2011. Two years prior, he had been in a horrible car accident. He’d lost control of his truck in at attempt to avoid a deer, hit a median, and flipped four times, nearly
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If you’re just getting into Instagram, the social shoot-and-filter app that was hit Android last week and sold to Facebook yesterday, then you might want appreciate a primer on each filter’s quirks strengths, rather than flip through all of them with every shot. The Atlantic offers just such a profile. More » from Lifehacker: Iphone
Whether you realize it or not, you’re designing every day. It might be a simple document, an updated resume, or a presentation, but either way you’re making design choices, in particular about typefaces and layout. These decisions can have a significant impact that makes your work more compelling, or they can turn it into a
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watchanish: Would get no/loads of work done here…the definition of extremities from Minimal
Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh – London Life – Life & Style – Evening Standard: It sound so obvious, but I remember being shocked to use a Mac, and somehow have this sense I was having a keen awareness of the people and values of those who made it. I think that people’s emotional
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The moment you get effortlessly lost in work goes by any number of names: focus, concentration, escapism, flow, and countless others. It’s the point where you’re able to blur the world around you and calibrate your brain to pay attention to one single task. It’s your sweet spot. It’s when you Get Things Done. Your
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This is a guest post from Brett Henley of I Am Convicted. Brett has a very important message that I hope you’ll pay close attention to. It’s a story about the reality of the American prison system, and what we can do to begin changing it. It’s hardly a popular topic. But it’s a message
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“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.” – John Carmack Distractions. Our world has become a constant feed of information and entertainment. We take our phones with us everywhere we go. We connect to the internet wirelessly from thousands of locations. We are fed messages relentlessly from advertisements on
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Few folks know of the obscure little event colloquially called SDCC — this west coast convention is attended by few, but those few are fervent supporters, and it’s always a special event for them. Documentary maker Morgan Spurlock has decided to take a look at this little-known convention and the people who attend it in
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