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Neat game, really an abstract card game with the chrome of designing apps. I can imagine it working very well. The special cards might need handling carefully as they might be too …

Find a career that has immediate feedback and rewards. For example teaching, customer service or acting.

This article explains how an algorithm will search for free or copyright free content based on a search seed and then combine the content into a book. This is not publishing but de…

Take baby steps to change behaviour. Don't believe in "will power". http://www.slideshare.net/captology/stanford-6401325

In reading about these child abuse cases I was struck by how familiar they sound to the Witch Trials of the 17th Century. We have prosecutors convinced they have discovered a hidde…

Sounds to me like you are strongly affected by coffee. It can't be good to be so dependent on anything. Maybe you should try giving it up more slowly in the future. Reduce in-take …

But please avoid strong tea. It still has a lot of caffeine in it and tea can also hinder the absorption of iron and other long-term effects. http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine+and+t…

Ahh the sugar high! I think this is a bit of a myth. See this: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2747/does-giving-sw... Seems like one early study made the link but the foll…

Try something like meditation, exercising, taking 30 minute holidays... other non-addictive and well tested methods.

I wonder if there is a simple medical test that could identify the caffeine intolerant?

Oooo. I need to read this. http://www.pediatricneurology.com/adhd.htm Or would you recommend another source? Note to self: reading medical textbooks means you always have the sympt…

There should be a universal law that makes people who blog about a talisman of productivity revisit their post and comment on it, say 3 months later, then 6 months later etc. Now i…

Could be that you are getting older.

Thanks for the link to the ever wonderful "lesswrong" site. So much for me thinking I had stumbled onto something.

When your bad, your better!

Some stats comparing caffeine content in tea. http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine+and+tea.aspx

This had made me realise I have never tried decaf. I will go and buy some and see if I like it. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing. But be aware that black tea and green tea often have the same caffeine content. The trick is to make your tea weak.

Fascinating point. Then does that mean that being more focused without coffee means I am low on the ADHD spectrum?

I still like coffee too. I prefer dark roast espressos with almond croissants. Mmmm... Occasionally I have a treat in a coffee shop, but only at the weekend. You might be one of th…

Simple really. I think I was looking for magic bullets (talismans) and hit on coffee only by noticing that no matter what I did, what productivity thingy I used, it was the mood sw…