Millions of 3-year-old laptops get blamed for being "slow" when the hardware is barely the problem — it's almost always what's silently running underneath.
A student was about to spend $900 on a brand new laptop because hers took 4 minutes to boot and constantly froze mid-assignment, right when deadlines mattered most.
Her older brother, who builds PCs on the side and has fixed dozens of laptops for friends, sat down with her laptop for 8 minutes on a Sunday afternoon.
He didn't reinstall Windows.
Didn't add RAM.
Didn't recommend an SSD upgrade.
Didn't suggest buying anything at all.
He changed 8 settings.
Boot time dropped from 4 minutes to 20 seconds. Chrome stopped eating 90% of her CPU in the background. Word stopped freezing mid-sentence while she typed.
Same laptop. Same specs. Same age. Same everything.
"Your laptop was never actually slow. It was just never cleaned up past the day you bought it — and nobody, not the store, not Microsoft, not tech support, was ever going to tell you the fix was free."
🧵 Here are the 8 settings he changed:
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@abhirajbhal I have got only 1st page of an invoice no. UCIC230018808755, which I have booked for AC service. Pls help me to send full copy of an invoice containing both the pages.
Hahahahahaha... this is a brilliant way to use a celebrity in an ad 😂 Not only does not use Ranveer Singh (and Johnny Sins - 'Google' him!) in a totally unexpected (and hilarious) way using the much-derided Indian TV series trope, but it also makes the product category far more accessible to a wider set of people beyond it being used in hushed tones!
Great job by Moonshot, the agency.
#advertising #marketing #creative #creativity
I've worked with Microsoft Excel for over two decades.
Knowing Excel helped me:
- get promoted
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Traditional vegetarian Indian diets are protein-deficient.
Although I've written a lot about vegetarian sources of protein, I'm often asked about this over & over
Here's a step-by-step guide on how to complete your daily protein requirement being a vegetarian:
There are just 100 days left in 2023.
Here are 23 ideas to make the most of them:
1. Default to 25-minute calls/meetings (instead of 30 minutes) and take a simple walking or breathing break during the 5 minutes.
2. Batch email and message processing into 1-3 condensed windows during the day.
3. Build a deep work practice by blocking 60-minute windows during which you have zero email, messaging, apps, or distractions.
4. Go into your calendar and add at least two 15-minute blocks for absolutely nothing. Rest more to grow more.
5. Use the Feynman Technique for learning anything new. Identify a topic, try to explain it to a 5-year-old, study to fill in knowledge gaps.
6. Use an Eisenhower Matrix to prioritize your tasks. The goal is to spend more time on important tasks that further your long-term values, missions, goals, and principles.
7. If you want to improve at something, try my 30-for-30 Approach: Do the thing for 30 minutes per day for 30 straight days. Dramatic results follow.
8. To feel energized in the morning, try my 5-5-5-30 Method. When you wake up, do 5 push-ups, 5 squats, 5 lunges, and a 30-second plank.
9. Go for a 15 minute tech-free walk every morning.
10. Take yourself out for a meal alone once each month.
11. Get cold. 11 minutes of weekly cold water immersion (showers or full immersion) has been shown to create immediate physical and mental benefits.
12. If you're struggling to fall asleep, try the 4-7-8 Method. Breathe in through your nose for a 4-second count, hold your breath for a 7-second count, and exhale for an 8-second count.
13. Use the Physiological Sigh Technique to reduce stress. Double-inhale through your nose, long exhale through the mouth.
14. To eat healthier, do all of your shopping on the outer perimeter of the grocery store. This is where the fresh stuff typically sits. Avoid the aisles (processed foods).
15. Develop a Power Down Ritual to separate work from personal life. It's a fixed set of actions that mentally mark the end of your professional day.
16. Tell your partner one thing you appreciate about them every single night.
17. Create an auto direct deposit for a small amount of money into an investment account every month.
18. Automate all simple financial tasks such as paying bills, credit cards, and investing.
19. To save money and build wealth, make a rule to wait 48 hours before completing any non-essential material purchase.
20. If you’re going to say yes because you think you’ll have more time in the future, say no instead.
21. Learn one dance move you can reliably bust out when you get pushed into a dance circle at a wedding.
22. Invest in personalized stationery (and use it once a month).
23. To break a bad habit, wear a rubber band on your wrist and snap it lightly on yourself each time you do the thing you’re trying to stop.
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Those are 23 ideas to make the most of the last 100 days of 2023.
Which one will you try?
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Steve Jobs had his best ideas while walking—this Stanford study explains why...
In 2014, a team of Stanford researchers examined how creativity levels were impacted by walking.
They conducted experiments with 176 participants that placed them in different situations:
• Walking on a treadmill facing a wall
• Walking outside
• Sitting inside facing a wall
• Sitting outside
In each situation, the participants were asked to complete a range of tasks that are typically used to measure creative thinking. For example, a test of "divergent thinking" asked the participants to come up with as many uses as possible for a set of objects.
The results were incredible:
Participants were dramatically more creative while walking than sitting.
In fact, one group of participants who took back-to-back tests, first sitting inside and then walking inside on a treadmill, saw a 60% improvement in creative output while walking vs. sitting!
Walking, indoors or outdoors, had a similar robust positive impact on creative thinking.
The authors concluded, "Many people anecdotally claim they do their best thinking when walking. We finally may be taking a step, or two, toward discovering why."
Many of history's greatest thinkers, entrepreneurs, artists, and athletes have believed in the power of walking.
It's a simple, free tool we can all use to dramatically improve our lives. Schedule more walks into your weeks.
Simple challenge for all of you:
Go for a 30-minute tech-free walk every single day this week.
• No phone
• No music
• No podcasts
• No articles
• No audiobooks
Just you, your thoughts, your gratitude, and the fresh air.
It’s a simple reset that will unlock new creativity and shift your perspective.
"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it." - Søren Kierkegaard
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