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One Year Ago on LifeReboot · LifeReboot.com

One Year Ago on LifeReboot
February 25th, 2008 by Shaun BoydToday marks an interesting anniversary for me. One year ago, I arrived in Michigan after a two-day, 600-mile drive from New Jersey. At the time, I still had New Jersey plates on my car, I still had health insurance, and I still had over $20,000 in savings. At the time, I was also still on payroll (thanks to some leftover vacation time). At the time, LifeReboot was still only an idea in my head.

A journal entry from that time in my life reveals what I was thinking:

Tomorrow will mark the very first time in my life where I’ll be taking a serious risk. Most of me is ecstatic. Part of me is terrified. It’s this one terrified part of me that I’m trying to kill.

Six months ago I made a promise to myself. After submitting a written proposal to my employer asking for a raise, I gave myself a personal deadline. At the end of six months, I will either:

1. Receive a raise, or
2. Quit my job and move out of state.

This blog will be one-year-old in a few more days!

And another snippet:

21st Century Literacies - in plain language

27 02 2008

Toward A Definition of 21st-Century Literacies

Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies.

These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities and social trajectories of individuals and groups.

Read the whole thing. Leave a comment.

And another:

Fiction can be good for you

Bruce Keener, 29 Feb 2008

There was a time when I loved to read good fiction books: Clancy, Koontz, Ludlum, Grisham, and so on. I used to go through several books a month on a regular basis, some in paperback form and some in ebook form.

Now I have a pile of unread fiction paperbacks and at least a dozen in ebook format that I have not even opened. Well, I’ve decided to start reading through these piles. And, I will try to do so without a guilt complex. It seems that somewhere along the way I became a self-improvement junkie, and somehow came to have the feeling that spending time unproductively is wrong.

But, while there is a time to be productive, there is also a time to relax.

Indeed, read the whole thing.

Enjoy.

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