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Digg.com brought me to a post on Tim Ferriss’ blog covering Scientific Speed Reading. The goals of this method are to increase reading speed by:

• Minimizing the number and time spent fixating words
• Eliminating regression (no re-reading)
• Increasing peripheral vision span and registration of words

Its a very technical method in which you basically train your eye movement by guiding it with your finger or a pen, while focusing on reducing unnecessary movements & fixations of the eyes.

Initial Results from first attempt

I had some free time so I took Tim up on the challenge. Reading the Fountainhead as my book of choice for this test, my baseline was 800.4 WPM. After my first pass through the training/conditioning techniques, I bumped it up to 883.2.

10.34% improvement in reading speed.

VERY promising!

I am planning on retraining myself on my flight home to Chicago on Monday morning. I will post the result of this next training session here on my blog.

Read more about the method here.

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Working at my primary client today, we noticed no orders coming in early this morning after about 8:30 or so. Checked our system, code, etc… no problems. However, the shipping estimate and quote system provided by FedEx and the FedEx gateway were not working. I did some research on the forum for this company’s chosen eCommerce solution (zen cart) and found people across the world with the same issue.

Turns out the fedex gateway is down…. its been down all morning.
Has FedEx been hacked? If not, this is a total fail on FedEx’s part.. costing eCommerce sites across the globe a TON of money (thousands for my client this morning) WEAK.

WTF is wrong with FedEx.. fix that shit now!

fedex hacked? fail. shipping gateway down

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