This Week in Links, 6/29/07

June 29, 2007 in Weekly Links

A trend on other blogs is to gather “top links” for the day, week, whatever, and put them in a post.  I’m jumping on that ship starting today.  Am I doing it to fill space because I haven’t posted in three days?  Or is this a new feature that I want to start doing every week?  You be the judge.

Lifehack has a Guide to Becoming a Better Writer which might not be helpful to you if you never write, but I think everyone should write, so I say you should read it anyway.  Even if all you write are thank you letters, TPS reports, or college essays (especially if you’re writing college essays), you could probably benefit from these 15 tips.  I know that I’ve been trying to improve my writing lately, and while this guide doesn’t really say anything new and extraordinary, it’s good to be reminded of good writing practices.

Here’s another guide over at Zen Habits on Escaping Materialism and Finding Happiness.  I’m a big believer in the idea that people need to be happy to be successful.  Successful to me doesn’t mean being a hot-shot CEO or an A-list celebrity with tons of money.  I think that if you’re doing something you love to do, and you’re happy, you’ve found success.  This guide might start you on the right path.

Again I send you to lifehack, where they sit us down for a bit of a history lesson.  I know, I know.  It’s summer!  Why must you subject us to history in the summer?  Because history is good for you, youngin’.  Especially when it comes to Making Failure and Frustration Your Friends.

I still think of myself as a noob when it comes to the “real world” and it feels like I just graduated yesterday.  I think I can count myself in the “recent graduate” club, atleast for a little while longer.  Get Rich Slowly has some Career Advice for the College Graduate that is good to read if you’re still in college, if you graduated this year, or even if you’re a year or two out of school.  It seems that those crappy entry level jobs can be good for something after all.

Finally I bring you to Found Read, where you can check out an article on How to Work the Room.  This is more good advice for those of you just entering the workforce, especially if you’re going into a career where you’ll be invited to lots of parties and events.  But this is a worthwhile read in general, because some of the advice he goes over would be useful even outside of “job land.”  If you’re uncomfortable in any social situations, you should give this a read.  Update: I just found a smiliar article at lifehack that I want to share with you.  Go read How Not to Suck at Socializing.  I knew I’d miss out on good stuff by posting in the morning.

Well that’s all the links I have for this week, there is plenty of other good stuff out there on the intarwebs, but these are ones that stood out to me as good for the type of people who (I hope) read my blog. 

Before I let you go, I’m going to ask you to learn a bit more, even though it’s summer.  Along with these weekly links, I’m going to link you to a weekly grammar tip from Grammar Girl.  Just because you’re not a writer doesn’t give you any excuse not to have a firm grasp on the English language.  So, here’s your first lesson: Just Between You and Me.