by clairediazortiz | Jun 15, 2012 | Books, Productivity
One of the most commented on aspects of my blog is my reading habit. For the past five years or so, I’ve been setting a goal to read 100 books a year, and handily breaking it each year without pushing myself — usually coming in around 115 or so. (See a...
by clairediazortiz | Jun 13, 2012 | Books, Productivity
Source: clairediazortiz.com via Claire on Pinterest When I read an article a few weeks back stating that, on average, people reportedly read 30% more thanks to electronic reading devices like the Kindle, I was speechless. Not in the shocked...
by clairediazortiz | Jun 7, 2012 | Books
I’ve talked before about Chris Guilleabeau of The Art of Nonconformity, and his unique ability to rock the casbah. Suffice it to say, my admiration for Chris has only grown in the intervening months since I wrote that post. There are two main reasons for this....
by clairediazortiz | Jun 5, 2012 | Social Media
Every day, I watch as small handfuls of people who supposedly want to connect with me online thoroughly and entirely waste their opportunity to do so. They do this — most notably — in the form of terrible LinkedIn requests. Although some percentage of the...
by clairediazortiz | Jun 1, 2012 | Hotels, Travel
On a recent work trip, I had the chance to stay at the Four Season in Denver. In life, I am perpetually perplexed that “Four Seasons” and a “Ritz Carlton” are not simply interchangeable words (and hotels), and this stay was no exception. I kept...