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	<description>Rem actam agis</description>
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		<title>Forgiveness and Change</title>
		<link>http://fergus.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/forgiveness-and-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 17:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From BPS research digest: &#8216;Forgiveness allows the individual to move past maladaptive behaviour and focus on the upcoming examination without the burden of past acts to hinder studying,&#8217; the researchers said. &#8216;By realising that procrastination was a transgression against the self and letting go of negative affect associated with the transgression via self-forgiveness, the student [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fergus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=210549&amp;post=1320&amp;subd=fergus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of Encarta</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Randall Stross on Encarta: Encarta could not compete, however, against the Web and Google. The Google search engine is an automated, continuously updated, always-expanding guide to information that is completely free. Authority now comes not from a small group of encyclopedia editors and famous contributors but from Google’s algorithms, which analyze links that point to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fergus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=210549&amp;post=1302&amp;subd=fergus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why do it now?</title>
		<link>http://fergus.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/why-do-it-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work hacks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fergus.wordpress.com/?p=1298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When given any problem, then first question is Should I do this now? Or wait? Why wait to do something? You&#8217;ll be getting more information Delay benefits you (e.g., you don&#8217;t want to answer too quickly, the recipient of your answer is not available until n months from now, etc.) You need time to manage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fergus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=210549&amp;post=1298&amp;subd=fergus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Current Jedi Mind Tricks</title>
		<link>http://fergus.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/current-jedi-mind-tricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Anecdotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fergus.wordpress.com/?p=1286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been super busy lately, and when I&#8217;m busy, I typically have a hard time maintaining my emotional equilibrium. But that is the trick: remaining graceful under pressure. Recently, I&#8217;ve been using a few Jedi Mind Tricks I picked up in the Dagoba system. This was a long time ago, in galaxy far far away. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fergus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=210549&amp;post=1286&amp;subd=fergus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worse Spell Check Mistake Ever</title>
		<link>http://fergus.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/worse-spell-check-mistake-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>F.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fergus.wordpress.com/?p=1283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Early in my legal career, I wrote a long brief for a partner on some topic I don&#8217;t recall. I think it had to do with employment law. I was a new lawyer, both eager to please and anxious not to screw up. I read and reread the memo to make sure there were no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fergus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=210549&amp;post=1283&amp;subd=fergus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yuck, Caution</title>
		<link>http://fergus.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/yuck-caution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>F.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fergus.wordpress.com/?p=1282</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe how lame Lust, Caution is. Not even worth a rent. Anthony Quinn in the Independent nails it: The climactic set-piece at a jeweller&#8217;s has been brewing since the prologue however many minutes (hours?) before, and offers the prospect of a showdown between opponents who&#8217;ve been shadow-boxing from the start. Instead, it&#8217;s all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fergus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=210549&amp;post=1282&amp;subd=fergus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Not to Lose Your Mind Drafting Contracts</title>
		<link>http://fergus.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/how-not-to-lose-your-mind-drafting-contracts/</link>
		<comments>http://fergus.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/how-not-to-lose-your-mind-drafting-contracts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>F.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fergus.wordpress.com/?p=1281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we wear a mask, said Orwell in Shooting an Elephant, our face grows to fit it. So what happens to your mind when you draft contracts for a living? Soon, you&#8217;re saying things like, &#8220;Notwithstanding the foregoing,&#8221; and &#8220;For the avoidance of doubt.&#8221; If you&#8217;re not careful, you lose the ability to communicate. Worse, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fergus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=210549&amp;post=1281&amp;subd=fergus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random Assertions after Reading Boethius</title>
		<link>http://fergus.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/random-assertions-after-reading-boethius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>F.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fergus.wordpress.com/?p=1280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading Boethius&#8217; The Consolation of Philosophy. It was both fun to read and provocative. What struck me most was how much this sort of philosophy has in common with today&#8217;s positive psychology (e.g., Seligman, Gilbert), not to mention Dr. Phil, Oprah, and various talk radio hosts. This makes sense, as the observed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fergus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=210549&amp;post=1280&amp;subd=fergus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That Other Place</title>
		<link>http://fergus.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/that-other-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>F.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fergus.wordpress.com/?p=1278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From time to time I get the feeling that I should be somewhere else, doing something else, being someone else. Usually the alternative is vague or nonexistent. I don&#8217;t have anything in mind. Just a persistent, nagging sense of another option I need to pursue. It&#8217;s easy to think about some fantasy alternative universe in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fergus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=210549&amp;post=1278&amp;subd=fergus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modulo Common Sense</title>
		<link>http://fergus.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/modulo-common-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>F.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fergus.wordpress.com/?p=1277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I read an article about an FTC consent decree with an internet company that disclosed some customer data. The article was fairly long and tried to summarize what was in the consent decree (which is a sort of binding contract with the government). Reading it over, the consent decree seemed like common [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fergus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=210549&amp;post=1277&amp;subd=fergus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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