December 30, 2013

My 3 Favorite Features of the Kindle Paperwhite

Two years ago, my wife bought me an Amazon Kindle for Christmas. Of all the Christmas gifts I’ve received over the years, this is probably the one that has been used the most....

by Tom Meitner

Life

June 14, 2013

Fighting at Best Buy, and The Case for Slowing Down

Yesterday, my new phone arrived. I think I heard the “Hallelujah Chorus” ringing out when the FedEx guy dropped it at our doorstep. A brand-spanking-new Samsung...

by Tom Meitner

Life

March 25, 2013

8 Ways to Automatically Organize and Simplify Your Digital Life with Evernote

“Oh, here we go again.” That’s likely what you’re thinking. “Another post about Evernote. I am so tired of the Evernote fanboys. I don’t...

by Tom Meitner

Life

March 5, 2013

Why “Going With the Flow” is Terrible For You

We are surrounded by opinions. Everybody’s got one, and they’re always about you: what you should be doing, what matters, what’s important, what makes you...

by Tom Meitner

Life

February 13, 2013

3 Overlooked Things Our Bodies Are Built to Do

Technology is great. It’s awesome, actually. I love living in the world I live in. Tech has enabled me to do a billion different things that you couldn’t do 10...

by Tom Meitner

Life

December 27, 2012

The Top Everything of 2012

It’s review time for me today, which I think is one of those exercises that everybody would benefit from. I’ll be going over how I did on my annual goals and...

by Tom Meitner

Learning To Read

November 30, 2012

5 Places to Get Book Ideas

It’s a very proud week here for me as a writer. I’m pretty pleased with how Reading Week has gone, and maybe it’s just because I’m happy I stuck with a...

by Tom Meitner

Learning To Read

November 29, 2012

Squeeze Reading into Any Part of Your Day

Reading Week continues today with a look at how to find time to read. We’ve already talked about when reading went south for us, making it easier to do, and finding an...

by Tom Meitner

Learning To Read

November 27, 2012

Make Reading Easy on Yourself

This week, I’m focusing on the act of reading, which is one of the major points of this blog for myself. Yesterday, I talked about how I fell out of love with reading (and why...

by Tom Meitner

Reading Tips

November 6, 2012

Why the Kindle is the Only Way I Read

I do love my gadgets. When I hear about some new piece of technology, I start Googling around to look at specs, reviews, and all that nerdy stuff. I eat it up. If that makes...

by Tom Meitner