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This is a short Random episode — 10:30 — and easily the most disgusting to date. I also think it's the funniest. Imagine Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations if he didn't need to edit for cable.

This episode has some educational bits, but it's focus is on enjoying the not-always-so-smooth experience of travel.

Not for the faint of heart.

From Glenn:

The following video segment is a continuation of the randomly shot randomian-thought random show project with Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose. This time, we

Total read time (bolded sections) = 5 minutes

Total read time (all) = 40 minutes

I am embarrassed to tell you that, up until three weeks ago, I had never read Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham City Jail. It is, without a doubt, one of the best case studies in how to deal with criticism I've ever come across.

Much like the historic Declaration of Independence (4-minute read time) and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (30-second read time), not much

This pre-China trip includes the below:

- Personal experiences with Y-Combinator, demo days, and pitching new ideas through avenues like YC.

- Five things you can do as a new startup to get your ideas, app, or product in front of influencers.

- Tweaking your website: per-user metrics, cost per acquisition, lifetime value of the customer, etc..

- The iPhone 3GS, talking some about the new updates and then a short comparison with the Palm Pre.

- Learning new languages and reactivating old ones (in this

This post will show exactly how one start-up improved their homepage conversion rate (visitor to sign-up flow) more than 20%, then 16% again, with a few simple changes and Google Website Optimizer.

Once reading this, you will know more about split-testing than 90%+ of the consultants who get paid to do it…

There are a few advanced concepts, but don't be intimidated; just use what you can and ignore the rest.

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Along with Founders Fund (Dave McClure), Garrett Camp (CEO, StumbleUpon), and others, I

Roger Bannister broke the mythical 4-minute mile barrier in 1954. (Source: Guardian UK)

Dean Kamen is no stranger to innovation.

He's also no stranger to doubters and skeptics. People said the Segway was impossible, but Kamen disagreed, and he was right.

"Don't tell me it's impossible," he says, "tell me you can't do it." "Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world–the only things we really know–are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the

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If there is one thing I've learned from this blog, it's that the readers here — that's you — have some stellar ideas and skills.

For the next book, tentatively titled "Becoming Superhuman", I would therefore love to invite any designers out there to throw their hat in the ring for the cover design.

This is a 7-day competition, and the clock is already ticking…

The last book is now in 35 languages, and I'm hoping the next book will be much bigger. I'll be firing all cylinders

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How much more could you get done if you completed all of your required reading in 1/3 or 1/5 the time?

Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement—period.

This post is a condensed overview of principles I taught to undergraduates at Princeton University in 1998 at a seminar called the "PX Project". The below was written several years ago, so it's worded like Ivy-Leaguer pompous-ass prose, but the results are substantial. In fact, while on an airp

Big goals? Learn to think small. (Photo: H. Koppdelaney)

The following is a guest post from Chad Fowler, CTO of InfoEther, Inc.

He spends much of his time solving hard problems for customers in the Ruby computer language. He is also co-organizer of RubyConf and RailsConf, where I first met him in person.

Our second meeting was in Boulder, where he was kind enough to use his musical background and natural language experience (Hindi, among others) to teach a knuckle-dragger (me) the primitive b

Greetings from Kunming, China, land of Pu-erh tea! I've been offline for a week and feel fantastic.

Kevin Rose, Glenn McElhose, and I are up to no good and having a blast. The above video is the first of several to chronicle our experience exploring the incredible world of tea in China, so be prepared for footage no foreigners have seen before. Not into tea? Don't worry — it's an inside look at strangers in a strange land, culture shock included.

This volume covers our trip preparation, Pu-erh

The above video is one of my favorite presentations I've given in 2009, an opening keynote at the last San Francisco WordCamp, titled "How to Blog without Killing Yourself". More than 700 people from 32 countries were in attendance, which made for a wonderful experience.

The original title was "Scalable Blogging Behaviors: How to Grow from 1 to 1,000,000 Readers" and the content did not change.

In the above presentation, including detailed screenshots, I cover…

- Why I blog
- How I blog and select