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When we bought our house, we looked out into the massive backyard and we were amazed by the lush garden brimming with flowers and vegetables and fruit trees.

That vision sucked us into a fantasy world of possibility: “Oh, what we could do with that! Vegetables from our garden for dinner! Sipping mojitos as we blissfully pluck flowers and water our lawn!”

Five years later, we’ve completely pulled out the garden (no more vegetables at all and only a few remaining flowers) whilst our trees rarely produce edible fruit. The only plant-like things that seem to thrive (whether we encourage them or not) are weeds and vines. Whenever something pleasant does bloom, our yard is overrun with rabbits and bees and wasps and squirrels.

Gardening—successfully gardening, anyway—is a ridiculous amount of work.

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Amplifying the lizard brain
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/06/amplifying-the-lizard-brain.html

Not sure why you would want to reinforce the noise in your head that tells you not to speak up, stand out and do work that matters, but if you do, a surefire way to do it is to focus your attention on every piece of negative feedback in your environment. Or to imagine every possible disaster that could befall you, and to do it repeatedly. Or to carefully study anonymous comments, tweets and online reviews from people who don’t like the work you’re doing. Or focus on the one paragraph in your annual review called ‘weaknesses’. Or spend the day thinking about the one slip of the tongue you made this morning…

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Cheap Plastic Camera Shootout | iPhone Alley - Special Features
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While a lot of attention has been put on the upgraded camera coming to the iPhone 4, we thought we would compare some iPhone camera apps that don’t require a ton of megapixels to make great pictures. Each of these apps help the iPhone take cheap retro looking photos, like the plastic cameras that used to be popular in the late 70s/early 80s. In this shootout, we chose three apps that seemed the most complete and advertised the ability to create awesome retro pics.

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SEO Mindset Reminder #6
http://www.leslierohde.com/2010/06/10/seo-mindset-reminder-6/

Secondly, the web is made of pages and links. There is nothing else, so whatever your study leads you to get busy doing, if it doesn’t result in creating more or better pages or more or better links, then it really has not much to do with SEO.

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Fear of shipping

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Every time you raise your hand, send an email, launch a product or make a suggestion, you’re exposing yourself to criticism. Not just criticism, but the negative consequences that come with wasting money, annoying someone in power or making a fool of yourself.

It’s no wonder we’re afraid to ship.

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The Two Magic Powers | Frank Kern Internet Marketing
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Occasionally, the unthinkable occurs.

I run out of the trash-fiction that I like to read – and as a last resort, I pick up “emergency reading material” like Oprah Magazine. (My wife gets it. Not me! I swear! I only read manly stuff like “Liquor Soaked Brawler’s Digest”.)

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