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After 7 years and over 300 posts, I have decided to end Try Reason!  You can continue to follow me at ProfessorDrake.com or Reason for Success For my Feed subscribers, I will forward you the...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-end-of-this-blog-as-you-know-it.html

This fall, I volunteered to participate in a pilot of a software package called "Blackboard Collaborate".  This software is designed to facilitate web conferencing and web lecturing for online s...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-screw-up-on-first-day-of-class.html

I'm proud to announce my new blog/website Reason for Success  -  the premier personal development destination promoting the virtue of productiveness.  In it, we analyze scientific discovers ...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/08/introducing-reason-for-success.html

In a recent couple of blog posts, Diana Hsieh at Philosophy in Action and I have articulated different takes on a "Central Purpose in Life". But it got me to thinking about how my values inte...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/07/time-enough-for-my-friends.html

In a recent podcast  at Philosophy in Action, Diana Hsieh questions the role of a central purpose in life (CPL) as articulated by various Objectivists (listen to the Parenting as Central Purpose...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/07/central-purpose-in-life-another-look.html

3 big things in the works this week. 1. An article on privacy - headed to a top journal in my field.  This article has been troubling me for years because I could never find the right hook ...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-have-big-plans-big-plans-i-say.html

8 years ago today, the weather forecast called for rain all day.  That would have been alright, except I had a extremely special outdoor event planned at the Cafe DeMenil at the DeMenil mansio...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/07/8-years-ago-today.html

I have been given hints to this the last few months, but I'm finally moving forward with a new blog and book project on goal setting and productivity.  It seemed like I had a set of impossible r...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/06/starting-project-with-zero-resources.html

A recently story about HR reps requesting Facebook login credentials caused a bit of an uproar recently.  There's a lot that can be said about this, but here are some of my thoughts, focusing o...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/05/morality-of-gathering-facebook.html

All things being equal most of us want more money.  All things being equal most of us want a career that brings immense personal satisfaction.  What if those two things do not align?  What i...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/05/3-keys-to-picking-career.html

A new feature on Blogger, Google Translate your blog into any language.  Cool feature.  But for me, this is too little, too late.  After learning all the capabilities that WordPress can offe...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-translate-for-blogger.html

Time to revisit my 5 year goals .  Lately, there have been two major interconnecting questions consuming my plans for the future - 1) How should I focus my career? and 2) How to establish my fin...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/05/5-year-goals-update.html

Google returns searches in a half a second.  How do they do it? What can a web developer do about it? First - Before you write a page, think about what search terms people might type to ge...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-does-google-search-work.html

In this my 300th post, I'm going to do a little happy dance.  I just received news that a 3rd article of mine this year was accepted for publication.  Only two more to go to reach my 2012 goal...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/04/3-down-2-to-go.html

There is nothing like overwhelming yourself in order to stay focused.  My current major project count is at 15, although, to be fair, 2 are on hold and 7 of them are waiting on others to complet...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/04/at-edge-of-sanity.html

After careful thought and feedback from current students, former students, other instructors, and philosophers of education, I have decided to kill the classroom lecture and kill homework assignm...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/04/do-we-need-classroom-lectures.html

The other night, I got into an interesting conversation at my kid's school about creating an online group for the parents.  One of the parents recommended we use Facebook groups for the parents...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-groups-versus-facebook-groups.html

This week I'm reading a book on Rational decision making that claims that sunk costs should not be considered when deciding where to go from here.  By sunk costs, they mean time, energy, and/o...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/03/sunk-costs-body-image-and-rationality.html

After reading how you can build rich mobile apps with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript , and then reading about how to create devise agnostic design patterns for web sites on multiple screen sizes, ...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/03/designing-web-content-for-any-device.html

Over the past month, I have started to listen to two great podcasts - Internet Business Mastery and Smart Passive Income .  Both deal with building website businesses, with slightly different ...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/03/two-great-podcasts.html

Last week, I forgot to remind my students of a major milestone due that day in class.  I was able to send out an email after class, but I realized that my organizational system needs some twea...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/03/re-reading-getting-things-done.html

Over spring break next week, I plan on challenging myself to 5 days of workouts.  My usual is 2-3 workouts per week, so 5 workouts... is going to be fun.  Here's the plan: Monday - 1 mile s...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/03/spring-break-workout-challenge.html

I've been on a tear with my research lately.  Since last semester ended, I have one article published, 2 under review and 2 more almost ready for submission.  At the rate this is going, I'll ha...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/03/research-maniac.html

For my blog readers, You can follow me on Twitter @tryreason .  I regularly tweet about web development, with occasional tweets on productivity, economics, philosophy, science, and other cool...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/02/follow-me-on-twitter.html

A couple weeks ago I was snagged by the assistant dean while walking down the hall.  She wanted me to talk with a bright young student interested in the MIS degree.  So myself, the assistant ...

http://trhome.blogspot.com/2012/02/another-mis-major.html