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		<title>New Posting Schedule</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 23:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I began, I&#8217;ve stuck to a regular schedule of Monday and Friday posts, alternating between depthy essays and shorter inspirational posts. Right now I have so many exciting opportunities, many of them stemming directly from this and other writing, that I&#8217;ve decided to change the posting schedule for the summer to a biweekly one. [...]


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		<title>Goal Mapping Alpha</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s finally ready! As promised, the alpha version of my Goal Mapping software is ready. 
For those of you who aren&#8217;t down with geek lingo, an &#8220;alpha version&#8221; is a complete piece of software, but it has only been tested by the developer (me), so it has loads of bugs, it&#8217;s probably ugly, and may [...]


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		<title>Why you should fly Cubana</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Hoffman recently caught my attention by traveling the world using whatever means the local population used to travel, including rickety airplanes, dilapidated trains, and roach infested ferries. 
The thing that struck me about this relatively affluent American who traveled the world this way was that he just decided to do it one day. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning Right? You&#8217;ll Fail.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planning Right: The Problem
Imagining your future is usually right brained: your creative center generates a story for a future that could plausibly happen. It hits the highlights, and it puts magical arrows between them as if one event leads inexorably to the next. Get into MIT, start a successful company with your smart roommates, and [...]


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		<title>The Post That Will Change Your Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; isn&#8217;t this one. Sorry about that.
I&#8217;ve been skipping my usual Friday posts for two weeks now. You might think I&#8217;m slacking, but actually I&#8217;m just expressing my inner non-communicative workaholic. Non-communicative because I should&#8217;ve warned you two and a half weeks ago, when I first planned my radio silence. I always expect things to [...]


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		<title>It&#8217;s Easy When You Do It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to over think plans&#8212;getting caught in a cycle of thinking instead of acting. Fears and doubts loom large because they are in the present, and any positive outcome is in some far off future.
In that spirit, a bit of inspiration from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (affiliate link): 
We walk past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pete Michaud Techzing Interview Transcript</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a transcript from the interview I did recently with Justin and Jason at Techzing. 
If you want to listen to the audio instead of reading, click here.
Enjoy!
Table of Contents

About Pete&#8217;s Writing
Retirement Preface: Ken Sharpe
Hitting a Home Run
Retirement: Researching the Blogs
Desperate for Value
Retirement: The Blogs Start and Pete Get Laid Off
Ambition Starts with Thinking [...]


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		<title>The Short Trajectory of Prodigy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prodigy is very young and highly skilled in whatever field they practice. 
The concept is demoralizing because it builds a wall separating prodigy from mortal. 
It&#8217;s like the superstar effect: what&#8217;s the point of even competing when you have toddlers running around juggling fire and reciting the Iliad in ancient Greek? 
I have good [...]


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		<title>Transcend Your Tribe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans are tribal animals. We trust and mimic members of our group, while we distrust and malign outsiders. That worked 200,000 years ago, but it&#8217;s a bad strategy now, and one 1950s experiment is a fantastic case in point. 
In the Robber&#8217;s Cave Experiment, researchers pitted two groups of homogeneous, preteen boys against each other. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pete Michaud Techzing Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a great interview with Jason and Justin at TechZing.
Click here to listen to the interview &#8594;
Click here to read a transcript of the interview &#8594;
We covered quite a bit of ground in the interview:

The details of the business that allowed me to &#8220;retire&#8221; at 25
My business strategy and philosophy
My future projects and goals
My [...]


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		<title>Equivocation Cripples Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers frequently give me a hard time about some edge case in my writing as if I haven&#8217;t thought the subject through, and pared the word count down by half. 
I&#8217;m confident that those readers don&#8217;t write a whole lot. If they did write, they would realize that in order to produce a cogent piece, [...]


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		<title>Techzing Interview Tuesday March 23rd</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechZing, &#8220;News and views from the front-line of tech &#38; startups&#8221;, was crazy enough to invite me to do an interview tomorrow at 6:30pm EST. I&#8217;m not sure when it will be available for listening, but I&#8217;ll be sure to let you know when it&#8217;s up. 
We&#8217;ll be talking about my publishing company, Kenrose Media, [...]


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		<title>Is Your Face Real?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Is your patch real?&#8221;
My eye patch is a conversation piece. Many people ask about it, a lot assume it&#8217;s either fake or temporary (it&#8217;s neither). &#8220;Do I need it?&#8221; some ask. 
Some people reflexively yell &#8220;Yarrr!!&#8221; at the sight of me, like their ancestors evolved some pirate instinct that preserved their genes from pillaging while [...]


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		<title>Ira Glass on the Creative Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t know Ira Glass, you should. If you don&#8217;t know Ira&#8217;s show, This American Life, you should.
This message is about how creative people need to really stick with what they are doing. He&#8217;s talking to people who work in TV, but it applies to everyone who produces.

A few excerpts:
Most everyone I know who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I retired at age 25</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was younger I pulled some ballsy moves, trying to get rich young. My goal was to be rich enough to do whatever I wanted to do by the time I was 25. 
Back then I planned to fight my way to the top of the ladder, and sky dive from the ladder&#8217;s lofty [...]


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		<title>Don&#8217;t You Dare Waste Your Fucking Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gabrielle Bouliane, the woman in this video, was diagnosed with stage four cancer and died on January 29th, 2010. 
Funny how death washes away the bullshit.



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		<title>Content Survey Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I let the poll run for two weeks, got plenty of responses, and the results are in.
What kind of content do you want to see?
Getting Your Mind Right: 50%
Productivity Tools: 0%
Building Income: 50%
I&#8217;m planning some &#8220;Building Income&#8221; posts for the near future, look for them. I&#8217;m still going to publish some stuff about productivity, but [...]


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		<title>Meaningful Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I published an essay called Achievement Porn in which I warned against the dangers of addictive treadmills sinking their hooks into your ape brain and its greedy dopamine receptors. My goal for that essay was to encourage people to reevaluate their activities, and enable them to make a deliberate decision about how they [...]


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		<title>Achievement Porn</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hacker News pointed me to an article recently called &#8220;Addicted to Fake Achievement&#8220;. 

That article is about video games, but this one isn&#8217;t. The thesis of that article is that some games (it mentions Role Playing Games) don&#8217;t actually require skill, just time. You start with a weak character and perform some task that&#8217;s almost [...]


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		<title>Pete Michaud Content Survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The survey is closed! 
See the Survey Results &#8594;


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		<title>Life as a Geoboard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self sabotage is a complicated subject that could fill its own series if not its own blog. Who does it? Why do we do it? What triggers it? How do we do it?
I want to give you an intuitive mental model of one type of sabotage before hitting you with statistics and data from academic [...]


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		<title>Hack the World: A Conspiracy of None</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
What I&#8217;m about to tell you is part of the painful slashing and burning you need to undertake in order to live an authentic life. It’s maybe the most important essay I’ve ever written. It’s longer than usual (around 2600 words), but if this idea is new to you, it might change your life. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Reality is an Illusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We now know that the moon is demonstrably not there when nobody looks.N. David Mermin
&#8220;Reality is an illusion.&#8221; Even to myself I sound like a drooling hippy, but the difference between the hippy and me is that I know that it&#8217;s an illusion and they are just repeating something that sounds deep. I want to [...]


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		<title>It&#8217;s Just a Ride</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a brief break from our regularly scheduled bloviation, I want to share this video. It&#8217;s part of deceased comedian Bill Hicks&#8217; routine. It&#8217;s maybe the most important message there is. Here&#8217;s the video, followed by a transcript:

The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it [...]


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		<title>5 Steps to Stop Procrastinating Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obvious truth #1: We think about the things we like to do, and those things make us feel happy. As a result, we do those things whenever we can.
Obvious truth #2: We try not to think about the things we don&#8217;t like to do. Those things make us feel frustrated, stressed, bored&#8211;anything but happy. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Death Bed Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those not blessed with the perspective of a fatal car accident or terminal cancer, there&#8217;s a technique that I developed that helps me decide how to handle difficult decisions. I call it the Death Bed Test.
The Death Bed Test
Imagine: you are ancient, with creaking joints and thin, leather skin. You&#8217;re lying in an inclined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure&#8212;these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There [...]


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		<title>Loss Aversion Bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numerous studies have shown that people feel losses more deeply than gains of the same value (Kahneman and Tversky 1979, Tversky and Kahneman 1991).
Goldberg and von Nitzsch (1999) pages 97-98
A friend of mine, we&#8217;ll call him Joe so I can feel free to ridicule him publicly, complained to me the other day about a kit [...]


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		<title>Sunk Cost Fallacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunk Costs are costs which have already been incurred and cannot be recovered. The Sunk Cost Fallacy is a mistake in reasoning in which you consider the sunk costs of an activity (instead of the future costs) when you decide whether you should continue the activity or not.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve put everything I have into this business. [...]


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		<title>The Pete Michaud&#8482; Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think what I&#8217;m trying to build here is a self-help website. Personal Development for People who aren&#8217;t Gullible Fuckheads. Something like that. But a lot of the self-help industry really turns me off because they&#8217;re selling something to starry-eyed dupes that is untested and often self-evidently bullshit.
I actually identify more closely with the rationalist [...]


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