Just over a week ago, I wrote about buffering in the context of creating content ahead of time for this blog. Here are some examples of how you can use the concept of a buffer elsewhere in real life .
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I find the first of January to be a terrible day to create resolutions that I will carry out. Usually, I am away from home, away from my routines and habits. Creating an intention that you will follow through on is an exercise in habit creation. But the holiday period from Christmas to New Year’s is always very different from my normal daily life.
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Often when presented with contemporary artwork, people feel excluded. “This is not for you” seems to be the message that many people receive from work in galleries and museums. Work with million dollar price tags. Bananas duct-taped to walls. How do you begin to talk about artwork if you don’t know where to start?
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The single metric that powers the spread of content on the internet is click through rate.
Click through rate or CTR is the percentage of people who see a post or video or link that click on it. It doesn’t matter if the content is correct.
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Steven Bradbury needed the three best short track speed skaters in the world to fall down to win a medal at the 2002 winter Olympics. Of course he had to work hard. But don’t make it so that you feel like you have failed if everything doesn’t line up perfectly for you.
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A friend asked me yesterday how I will be able to come up with things to write about for the next 100 days without running out of ideas.
Here is my answer.
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Today is Saturday, and if I wanted to take the day off from writing for this blog, I would need something I don’t yet have. A buffer: ‘one I made earlier’ as the great TV chefs of old would always say.
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Within 20 minutes of coming up with this idea for a blog post while cooking my lunch, I listened to an episode of Seth Godin’s podcast Akimbo and he brought up the idea of mise-en-place as an example of how to use placebos on yourself.
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In terms of value for money, we cannot compete with this type of pricing. We have to offer something different. What exactly do I have that IKEA can’t provide?
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