Experten haben jetzt heraus gefunden: In Zeiten von Corona wird mit Fake-News wieder wichtige Zeit verschwendet. Zeit, in denen man Leben retten könnte. Darum denke an die Sicherheit deiner Mitmenschen und schicke diese Nachricht unbedingt an deine Freunde und Familie und überhaupt alle Leute in deinem gesamten Adressbuch! Worauf wartest du noch?

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2 – 😮 Die Nachricht enthält keine Zeitangaben, außer der Andeutung, dass etwas “jetzt” oder “vor Kurzem” entdeckt wurde oder passiert ist

1 – 😱 Die Nachricht enthält die Aufforderung “Leite dies unbedingt an deine Freunde und Familie weiter!!!”

The Problem

We recently re-designed the web-site of our little startup, ParrotPolls. (Update 2023: I founded Crunchmetric, which is the perfect tool to improve your team.
It’s for the teams themselves, not the HR-department.) Anyhow: Now we’re ready to launch our first¹ AdWords-campaign. The problem is: how to do that?

From our real first attempt, we already know that simply creating an Adwords campaign and expecting people to signup for a trial account is not a good goal, it’s just not feasible.

Just a couple of tiny recipes for pipenv

How to migrate an existing project from requirements.txt to a pipenv Pipfile

This will create a new virtual environment for your current folder and install all requirements from requirements.txt. Put another way: This will “convert” your requirements.txt into a Pipfile:

Run this from the project folder containing the requirements.txt file.

$ touch Pipfile
$ pipenv install -r requirements.txt

Output:

Creating a Pipfile for this project…
Requirements file provided! Importing into Pipfile…
Pipfile.lock not found, creating…
Locking [dev-packages] dependencies…
Locking [packages] dependencies…
✔ Success! 
Updated Pipfile.lock (037725)!
Installing dependencies from Pipfile.lock (037725)…
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To activate this project's virtualenv, run pipenv shell.
Alternatively, run a command inside the virtualenv with pipenv run.

Next step: verify that the generated Pipfile contains all your requirements.

Do you use a todo or task app on your phone? And have you enabled recurring reminders for overdue tasks? Do you have an ever growing list of overdue tasks?

If your task list is growing, or if you find yourself dismissing task reminders several days in a row without actually looking at the overdue tasks, then these tip might be for you:

Don’t mix actionable tasks and “someday, maybe I should do this”

If you don’t look at your overdue tasks, maybe they are not real, concrete tasks after all. Maybe you are using your task list to remind you of things you feel you should do, but you don’t actually ever get around to do them.

I have been thinking about buying this new gadget for a while. This has been going on since spring of this year (it’s almost fall now). I have have been watching many Youtube videos and reading reviews, looking at spec sheets and generally spending a lot of time on this subject.

I am hesitant to actually buy the gadget, because some part of me has the feeling, that, once I actually have that shiny new thing in my hands, the novelty will wear of rather sooner than later, and won’t be using it half as much as I imagined before I bought it. Part of me thinks, that I am want to buy the gadget, because I wish to be someone else, because I wish to behave like someone I am not.

If you are anything like me, you have experienced this: In the morning, you make grand plans for the evening, plan what you will do when you come home from work (or, if working from home, what you will do after work). In the morning, these plans made you feel good and productive. Then, evening rolls around, and suddenly you can think of a million reasons why you won’t stick to your plan and why you will put off those plans for some other day, probably tomorrow.

Are you like me, making plans in the morning but find that you are not sticking to them when evening rolls around?

I don’t eat particularly healthy. As with everything in live, I go through phases with my diet. Sometimes I eat less unhealthy, sometimes I eat more unhealthy food.

This week was especially bad.

Last weekend I received a nice little food basket from some of my friends. It was a very sweet gesture, and I was very happy to receive it. Upon closer inspection I noticed that there were some nice, unhealthy “treats” in there:

As you might be able to tell from the title, this is not going to be an academic article about self improvement. Instead, I am trying to convince you – and myself – that there is one key element to improving yourself and your life.

Let me start with an example.

Remember when you were a kid? Let’s assume I’m young again and let’s assume I don’t know how to do simple math, like adding numbers. Now, let’s assume, your job is to teach me to add small numbers.

This is my first Day of Writing. I came across the idea of theming my days when I recently watched a bunch of Youtube-videos. You know the one: your typical productivity porn videos by your typical productivity experts. The ones that make you feel productive without actually accomplishing anything.

Who are these videos for? Who is watching these videos? Probably a bunch of losers like myself who watch productivity videos to procrastinate. Well, to be honest, I don’t watch these videos anymore to procrastinate. But that’s what I used to do, and I definitely get that fuzzy feeling of pseudo-productivity when I watch them.