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There’s something great about having a clean desk. It makes people feel more comfortable when they’re around you in the office and it makes working easier with fewer distractions. How to do it? LifeClever has 10 tips. As usual, here are the titles, visit LifeClever for the full monty:

1. Use a system to manage paper
2. Banish Post-it notes
3. Trash those printouts
4. Keep blank file folders and a label maker at your desk
5. Ritualize your reviews
6. Throw away pens
7. Say no to schwag
8. Take your books home
9. Eat away from your desk
10. Limit photo frames on your desk

Just for the record, my desk has a computer, phone, pen container, 1 small stack of paper and a can of mixed nuts.

WorkHappy (an excellent entrepreneur blog) has this exclusive from Seth Godin to promote his new book Small is the New Big. Here are the summaries. For the full list, see WorkHappy.

1. Expecting gratitude in exchange for having done something that was hard.
2. Spending money as a substitute for doing something great.
3. Not realizing that it’s your company, and your marketing better be as good as everything else.
4. Listening to other people. If they’re so smart, why aren’t they running your company?
5. Failure to measure.

The actual list calls this a list for junior designers, however I’d argue that most of these suggestions are useful for anyone starting a new career. Here are they are:

1. Work quickly, produce a lot
2. Attend to details
3. Be versatile
4. Make an effort to learn
5. Anticipate problems
6. Set goals
7. Display a positive attitude

Click any of them to go to LifeClever and read the full post.

Eric Allam has a great list with a 10 ways to read a book in a week. I won’t quote his list here, but I’ll add my suggestion for a number 11 (which is also in the comments on his blog):

I’d also add listening to audiobooks to this list. I’ve found that if I add audiobooks to my normal reading I listen to at least two additional books every month (usually 3 or 4). I listen to them while mowing the lawn, driving to work, on lunch breaks when I take it alone, while washing dishes, cleaning up, excercising etc. etc. I use Audible.com and an iPod Nano. It’s not always an ideal substitute for a “real” book, but for many books it’s just as good (if not better) to hear rather than read.

Check it out here.

Cameron Olthuis has posted a great list (with images and descriptions) of the top 10 CSS tutorials. Most of these are newer techniques many of them pretty slick, check them out if you haven’t already.

1. Hoverbox Image Gallery
2. CSS Bar Graphs
3. CSS Vertical Menus
4. Listamatic
5. Floatutorial
6. Rounded Corners
7. 40 CSS Layouts
8. CSS Photo Gallery
9. CSS Drop Shadows
10. Style Sheet Switcher