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		<title>Anger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, my friend asked me when was the last time I got angry and really acted out.
Ignoring certain problems in my life (because), it&#8217;s been a really long time. I couldn&#8217;t think of an instance at the time, but now I recall an episode during my first post-college job in Santa Barbara. No, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tienshiao.org/2010/03/01/anger/</link>
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		<title>Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you get good at something? What if you aren&#8217;t &#8220;talented&#8221;?
You practice. This thread follows one person&#8217;s journey from absolute beginner to master. After 6+ years of daily sketching and practice, he now shows in galleries and teaches art. Here is his website.
A lot of talented people have worked hard for their talents.
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		<link>http://www.tienshiao.org/2010/02/01/practice/</link>
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		<title>Recently</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been working on recently:

My putting. (If you&#8217;re viewing this through an RSS reader like Google Reader, you might be missing the pretty embedded graph.)
No, I&#8217;m kidding. I have been working on my putting (and I&#8217;m happy with my improvements), but I wanted to show you TallyZoo. I think we have a buzzwordy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tienshiao.org/2010/01/29/recently/</link>
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		<title>Goals/Resolutions for 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 is nearly upon us. I&#8217;m perfectly happy to leave 2009 behind. Not that a new calendar is going to magically change anything. 2009 was memorable and at the same time forgettable. Meh.
Businessy/money goals:

Increase my revenue by 20%. On a cash accounting basis, I ended up doing 10% more in 2009 than in 2008. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tienshiao.org/2009/12/31/goals-resolutions-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>One Thing I Learned About Myself In 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing I learned about myself this year is that I am an optimist.
I am certainly cynical in (many) ways, but in the end I am an optimist. I believe people will act selfishly and in their own self interest, but I also believe that most people generally will not go out of their way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tienshiao.org/2009/12/24/one-thing-i-learned-about-myself-in-2009/</link>
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		<title>Sending small TCP packets on the iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WTH is up with the iPhone TCP stack in 3.1.2? Something changed since 2.x (since 3.0?) and I get huge (relatively speaking) lag with small packets even with TCP_NODELAY. Or maybe they&#8217;re due more aggressive power management changes? I&#8217;ve had to rewrite my network code and event handling to compensate. But even then it doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tienshiao.org/2009/11/28/sending-small-tcp-packets-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Choices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Months ago, during summer, I was watching Journeyman on Hulu. I&#8217;ve been watching a lot of TV lately. I&#8217;ve probably watched more in the last year than the couple years before combined. I guess it takes your mind off of things. I read a study somewhere indicating that the fake (one way) social interaction you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tienshiao.org/2009/11/18/choices/</link>
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		<title>Complacency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By this time next month I will be financially debt free again.
Two and a half years ago, I was flying high. I had a fat salary, some savings, no debt, all while being the sole provider in my relationship. My relationship had hit a bump in months prior, but we were heading in the right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tienshiao.org/2009/11/06/complacency/</link>
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		<title>Personal Philosophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My personal philosophy hasn&#8217;t really changed in years, decades. But in thinking about it, I don&#8217;t think I could trim it down into a Twitter sized message. I am concise at times, and excessively verbose at other times.
My personal philosophy revolves around self awareness and honesty, in particular, self honesty. Know who you are, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tienshiao.org/2009/10/08/personal-philosophy/</link>
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		<title>Waze</title>
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My new favorite app for the iPhone is Waze. I would describe it as a crowd sourced satnav app. I guess kind of like web 2.0/user generated blah blah for GPS. Dash but for the iPhone and a little cuter.
Traffic and incidents get sourced from users driving around. Routing is also sourced/optimized by users driving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tienshiao.org/2009/08/10/waze/</link>
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