1. Minimal Mac: Buy Apple Refurb →

    Great advice - and from my perspective, refurb is BETTER than new. Anything sold factory refurbished has been gone over with special attention and better quality control than even Apple’s outstanding quality control. 

    Buy refurb with confidence (I was VP of operations of a hardware refurbisher for 3 years and I know this stuff).

    minimalmac:

    Many of you I’m sure are long hip to this. That said, for some of you it will be a cost saving revelation. I have given this exact same recommendation to my clients for years and it is one I follow myself. Here goes…

    If you are in the market for a Apple product, keep your eye out here:

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  3. explore-blog: SF Signal plots all of NPR’s top 100 science fiction and fantasy books in a flowchart.

    explore-blog:

    SF Signal plots all of NPR’s top 100 science fiction and fantasy books in a flowchart.

  4. Smartebits: Balancing More or Less →

    smarterbits:

    A review of Patrick Rhone’s Enough

    Enough is a word I struggle to understand. As a kid, teachers would reproach the fact that I wasn’t studying enough, which I gathered - if my test scores didn’t reflect it already, meant they thought I needed to spend more time with my homework. On the other…

  5. Clients From Hell: Freelancer Payment Protection Act →

    I have my own Freelancer Payment Protection program. It’s called Twitter.

    clientsfromhell:

    Freelancing isn’t free. When a client doesn’t pay, copious amounts of time and money are needed to chase that paycheck. Let’s change that.

    TheFreelancer Payment Protection Act     – which would legally protect freelancers from non-paying clients – needs your help.

    Over 1,000 freelancers are already a part the campaign. The bill recently pushed through the New York State Assembly and secured key Republican and Democratic sponsors along the way. But we’re not done yet.