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A Case for Singletasking: The One-Task-At-a-Time Method

via lifehacker.com

"You juggle a lot of balls every day, and it's easy to feel like everything gets 20% of your attention but nothing ever gets 100%. It's time to start giving your work your full focus.

It's easy to feel like you're being constantly pulled in multiple directions. Fractured attention, endless to-do lists, and an overwhelming sense that everything important was due twenty minutes ago are practically the uniform of the modern workplace. If that frazzled view of work sounds a bit too much like your work day, it may be time to reconsider how you're working, take back your focus from the multitude of distractions around you, and start focusing on the work that matters and will make a difference in your career and life...."
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Source: Lifehacker

How many pages in the tax code?

via bedbuffalos.blogspot.com

"A few days ago, I quoted a statement from Senator Baucus, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, to the effect that there are 70,000 pages in the Tax Code. I figured he should know, since everything in the tax code must go through his committee to become law.

However, Peter Reilly, a CPA from Massachusetts with 30 years of experience, commented on that post as follows:

Where does he get 70,000 pages ? I've got a two volume CCH set that includes all sorts of extra notes and it is less than 10,000 pages. Mainly I work on-line so it's otherwise hard to judge.

Good question! As near as I can tell, Senator Baucus' source for the 70,000 page figure appears to be an article in The Economist, a magazine published in the UK. That article didn't go into much detail..."
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Source: Bed Buffaloes Blog