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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>interwebs, ecumenism &amp; etymology ftw!</description><title>Nick Zadrozny</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @nickzadrozny)</generator><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/</link><item><title>Even simple stuff can be complicated. When that happens, it...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VrfzSp0uDLI?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even simple stuff can be complicated. When that happens, it helps to change your perspective, or just slow things down.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/25042585747</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/25042585747</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:45:19 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>An Invocation for Beginnings (by Ze Frank)</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RYlCVwxoL_g?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;An Invocation for Beginnings (by &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=RYlCVwxoL_g"&gt;Ze Frank&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/20797006422</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/20797006422</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:47:15 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Mario-Portal mashup. Ten kinds of awesome.</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SaoHMjS04vU?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mario-Portal mashup. Ten kinds of awesome.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/18930205595</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/18930205595</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:10:06 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Jacob Sutton’s L.E.D. Surfer</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aIX3ntiTV-g?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jacob Sutton’s L.E.D. Surfer&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/17808721981</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/17808721981</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:35:05 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>“This is your moment to become the greatest lover your spouse ever dreamed of.”</title><description>&lt;a href="http://soberboots.com/2012/02/14/this-is-the-person-you-will-hurt/"&gt;“This is your moment to become the greatest lover your spouse ever dreamed of.”&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/17629412050</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/17629412050</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:10:51 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"Let people choose change. I don’t think people are afraid of change, as a concept. They’re afraid of..."</title><description>“Let people choose change. I don’t think people are afraid of change, as a concept. They’re afraid of change that’s forced upon them. That isn’t change, it’s violence.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3102-saas-change-starts-easy-and-then-gets-really-hard"&gt;Jason Fried&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/17223797915</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/17223797915</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:04:45 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55..."</title><description>“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Albert Einstein&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/16867176785</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/16867176785</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:19:53 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"Without great solitude, no serious work is possible."</title><description>“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Pablo Picasso&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/15839036208</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/15839036208</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:14:31 -0800</pubDate><category>creativity</category><category>solitude</category></item><item><title>It&amp;#8217;s true: a few weeks of programming really can save you hours of building a spreadsheet.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s true: a few weeks of programming really can save you hours of building a spreadsheet.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/14621231617</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/14621231617</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:54:00 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own..."</title><description>“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Henry Ford&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/12839467643</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/12839467643</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:45:57 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"If the main topic of conversation you have with your friends is not how you can better yourself, you..."</title><description>“If the main topic of conversation you have with your friends is not how you can better yourself, you need to get new friends.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://bufr.tumblr.com/post/12126279275/you-are-the-average-of-your-five-closest-friends"&gt;Buford Taylor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/12161958506</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/12161958506</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:30:21 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make..."</title><description>“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — 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 is no reason not to follow your heart.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html"&gt;Steve Jobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/11087156881</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/11087156881</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:38:25 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Bravo, xkcd. Another point well-made on a concept that scales...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lriv1dRuNo1qz4twio1_400.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bravo, &lt;a href="http://xkcd.com/951/"&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;. Another point well-made on a concept that scales really well.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Consider: If you were to bill yourself for the time spent researching and making purchases, how would the final cost influence your purchasing decisions?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would it change how you spend your time? Would it change how your spent your money? These questions hinge on two deeper, more revealing questions: how do you value your time, and where are you most willing to spend it?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The comic above makes an excellent point: you probably aren’t willing to work for less than minimum-wage just to save a few dollars on gas.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Conversely, there is an interesting question implicit in this point: What do you value enough that you &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; work for less than minimum wage? Odds are that you’re already doing just that.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/10206805740</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/10206805740</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:56:28 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>"The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies;..."</title><description>“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/01/24/272277/"&gt;Steve Jobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/9407646392</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/9407646392</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:34:53 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Elektricity Will Keep Me Warm - London Elektricity Acoustic...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="245" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Opwt3J3z57c?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Elektricity Will Keep Me Warm - London Elektricity Acoustic Session (by &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opwt3J3z57c"&gt;HospitalRecords&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/7755369551</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/7755369551</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:20:23 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Guitar Oscillations Captured with iPhone 4</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="323" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TKF6nFzpHBU?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Guitar Oscillations Captured with iPhone 4&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/7623133777</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/7623133777</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:29:59 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Ever</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="245" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OTVE5iPMKLg?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Ever&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/6830805766</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/6830805766</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:56:31 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>"The manual is a catalog of the product’s flaws."</title><description>“The manual is a catalog of the product’s flaws.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/rands/status/57510950974144512"&gt;Bill Budge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/4530475489</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/4530475489</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:33:49 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Chicago from above. Way above. (via The Atlantic)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj8u80VNop1qz4twio1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chicago from above. Way above. (via &lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/the-international-space-station-expedition-26/100039/"&gt;The Atlantic&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/4394420266</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/4394420266</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:33:36 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."</title><description>“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/4229121392</link><guid>http://nick.zadrozny.com/post/4229121392</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:52:00 -0700</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
