Stephen Covey, "7 Habits" author, dies at 79

Re:Stephen Covey, "7 Habits" author, dies at 79 by 5xz41s0P8T5N on Monday July 16, 2012 @05:32PM (#4252804)

>Based on the reaction to his death here on HN however I'll give it a shot.

This thread is affected by the Michael Jackson effect. I would get my reading advice from a less biased one.

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Re:Stephen Covey, "7 Habits" author, dies at 79 by wallawe on Monday July 16, 2012 @05:52PM (#4252880)

Have you actually read the book? I think it's a bit insulting to relate his death to Michael Jackson's (or Whitney Houston's) death and the excessive ridiculousness that followed. This booked has helped a lot of people including myself, and no one should be deterred from reading it.

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Re:Stephen Covey, "7 Habits" author, dies at 79 by TeMPOraL on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @06:34AM (#4255101)

Isn't M.J. effect about the Internet slowing down (like HN/Reddit/Slashdot effect, but on a cross-website scale)?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Michael%20Jac...

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Re:Stephen Covey, "7 Habits" author, dies at 79 by Karunamon on Monday July 16, 2012 @05:46PM (#4252862)

Did you get your name confused with your password or something? (Just wondering about the name :))

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Re:Stephen Covey, "7 Habits" author, dies at 79 by 5xz41s0P8T5N on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @12:20AM (#4254071)

I use a random alias whenever I am not using my real name. The habit comes from a combination of laziness, paranoia, and dissatisfaction with various aliases I have past used. The downside is difficulty to login from other machines, though I could use something like lastpass.

I use an Alfred plugin (http://trepmal.com/alfredapp/random-password/) to generate logins.

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