Benjamin Montgomery

As the old adage goes, “we are what we eat” or in this case read.  The months of writing and then deleting opening posts are over.  I have, officially, decided how to open this baby up.

The best way to introduce this blog is a list of the things that I read.  Luckily, I have been tagging every list that I read over the past few months.  So as you find it, the first public post for www.benjaminmontgomery.com will be a list of lists.  While this might not be comprehensive of all the topics I will cover, this should provide you all with a nice sample of what to expect.  Welcome and enjoy…

1. 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library | The Art of Manliness
2. PC World – 20 Tech Habits to Improve Your Life
3. 20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks | Zen Habits
4. 7 Little Habits That Can Change Your Life, and How to Form Them | Zen Habits
5. 15 Dramatic Guerrilla Marketing Campaigns | WebUrbanist
6. The 10 Most Shameless Product Placements in Movie History | Cracked.com
7. 6 Web-based CRM Applications Side-by-Side – Stepcase Lifehack
8. 120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power
9. How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business | How-To | Smashing Magazine
10. Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes
11. 7 Little Tricks To Speak In Public With No Fear – Stepcase Lifehack
12. 35 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters | Vandelay Website Design
13. 30 Free High Quality WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
14. 8 Golden Rules of Interface Design | 84 Bytes
15. 13 Free and Cheap Website Monitoring Services
16. Sun Small and Medium Business – Guy Kawasaki on Innovations
17. The New Orleans 100 11 Sites to download Free Vector Logos
18. 9 Things You Should Not Buy New
19. Seven Problems with a Someday/Maybe List — and Ways to Correct Them
20. The Psychology of Happiness: 13 Steps to a Better Life ∞ Get Rich Slowly
21. 7 Real Life Business Lessons Learned Playing Monopoly | Business Pundit
22. 22 Items You Need in Your Cleaning Kit | Organizing : RealSimple.com
23. The Dirty Little Secrets of Productivity Bloggers | Zen Habits
24. Jake Rocheleau Blog / A Collection of 40 Awesome Web 2.0 Navigations
25. My Best Advice About Personal Branding | chrisbrogan.com
26. The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites – Info, Search, and Reference – Reviews by PC Magazine
27. 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Photoshop | Arbenting
28. Web 2.0 Design Generators For Developers | 84 Bytes
29. 11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0 – ReadWriteWeb
30. Firefox Extensions: Mozilla Crowns Best Firefox 3 Extensions
31. Toxel.com » 20 Famous Logo Designs
32. 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes
33. 30+ Plugins to Make Your WordPress Blog More Social
34. 23 Essential Tools For Web Development on a Mac
35. Green home heating alternatives for this winter – Boston.com
36. 25 Painless Ways to Free Up an Hour a Day for Your Goals | Zen Habits
37. Nine Ways to Promote Your Blog Posts | chrisbrogan.com Single-Page Portfolio Sites
38. Pricing strategies to get more profits | Small Business Trends
39. 15 Images You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photoshopped | Cracked.com
40. 50 Amazing and Essential Novels to Enrich Your Library | Zen Habits
41. 200+ Photoshop Brushes for Light, Sparkles, Glows and Glitter | Vandelay Website Design
42. 7 “Eccentric” Geniuses Who Were Clearly Just Insane | Cracked.com
43. 8 Useful Adobe AIR Applications That Work In Linux | MakeUseOf.com
44. The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites
45. 35 Tools For Teachers, Tutors and Students
46. 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Illustrator | Arbenting
47. Baptism by Fire: 100 Essential Tips and Resources for Student Teachers | Smart Teaching
48. Four Strategies for Easing the Weekly Review 25+ Tools For Accounting and Budgeting
49. 8 Essential Skills They Didn’t Teach You In School – Stepcase Lifehack
50. 35 Must-Read Articles for Social Media Marketers | Traffikd
51. Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS | Events | Smashing Magazine
52. No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere | LifeDev
53. 19 Most Essential Open Source Applications That You Probably Want To Know
54. 30+ Ways to Create an Incredible Client Experience – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
55. 36 Font Resources You Should’ve in Your Bookmarks
56. 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers | Smart Teaching
57. Back To School: Mac research tools – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
58. Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 How To Videos How to Set Up Your New Mac – Stepcase Lifehack
59. 23 Great Ideas For Blog Posts » Internet Business
60. The 60 Best Photoshop Tutorials to Design Your Own Amazing Site |
61. Top 5 Most Inspirational Videos on YouTube | Zen Habits
62. Fuel Economy: The 7 Most Fuel Efficient Used Cars Under $10,000
63. On Simplicity » Blog Archive » Teaching Tweens Simplicity
64. 20 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Every Sunday | Marc and Angel Hack Life
65. 30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Their 30th Birthday | Marc and Angel Hack Life
66. woork: 25 Awesome tutorials for web designers
67. 25 Simple Tips to Improve Your Health and Fitness | Lyved |
68. Twenty-five must see YouTubes – Extra Mustard – SI.com
69. Olympic Moments -The Five Most Chill-Inducing Olympic Moments – Esquire
70. 10 Ways to Find Time to Follow Your Dreams – Stepcase Lifehack
71. Article: Why Do People Say “Yes?” The “6 Weapons of Influence”
72. Retro Photoshop Brushes And Vector Images – Giant Design Pack
73. Adobe Photoshop: 50+ High Quality .PSD Files and Tutorials
74. SitePoint Blogs » 15 Companies That Really Get Corporate Blogging
75. 32 Ways to Make Someone Happy Today | Zen Habits
76. 20 + Free Sets of Royalty Free Icons | Pingable.org :: Resources for Web Developers
77. 434 + essential web 2.0 Tools in one place!
78. [Re]Encoded dot Com » Blog Archive » 10 Ways to Save Time While Building a Website
79. ABC News: The Hardest-Drinking Cities in America
80. How To Demo Your Startup
81. 100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access
82. 10 Free Tools for Collaboration – Stepcase Lifehack
83. 12 iPhone Tricks You Might Not Have Known : iSmashPhone
84. 100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques | Smart Teaching
85. The Millionaire Secrets » Practice the 5 Habits of Highly Successful People
86. 20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks
87. 16+ Top JavaScript/Ajax Effects for Modern Web Design – aComment.net
88. The 50 Most Famous Cars Of All Time | Ride Lust – Motion + Mobility
89. Five Lightweight Apps for Web Trainers and Consultants – ReadWriteWeb
90. iusethis iphone software: Free software for the iphone population
91. 50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider | chrisbrogan.com
92. 101 Awesome Portfolio Sites | DesignM.ag
93. 10 Excellent Sources for WordPress Design Inspiration | Vandelay Website Design
94. The Top 20 Albums of All Time (For Real) – The Y! Music Playlist Blog
95. 15 Exercise Video Tutorial Sites to Pump You Up
96. Storage Solutions and Tips: Attics | Advice and Know-How | Reader’s Digest
97. The 35 Greatest Speeches in History | The Art of Manliness
98. 21 cool webmaster resources | Irish Internet Entrepreneur – Smemon
99. 50 Awesome Search Engines Every Librarian Should Know About | Best Colleges Online
100. Excel can be Exciting : 15 Fun things to do with Microsoft Excel
101. Smart Home Blog » 14 Interesting home control applications for iPhone
102. 25 Best Business Books Ever | Business Pundit
103. Eight Capture Tools for Maintaining a Clear Head
104. 10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything – Stepcase Lifehack
105. On Simplicity » Blog Archive » 30 Ways to Make Your Life More Simple
106. Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know – ReadWriteWeb
107. Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Printable Paper Productivity Tools
108. Venture Capital: 30 startup ideas Y Combinator wants to fund
109. 7 iPhone Apps to Boost Your Productivity – Stepcase Lifehack
110. Readers Recommend: 15 More Productivity Blogs You Probably Never Heard Of – Stepcase Lifehack
111. Top 30 Design Blogs & Resources For Architects : TreeHugger
112. Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity – Stepcase Lifehack
113. Merlin’s top 5 super-obvious, “no-duh” ways to immediately improve your life | 43 Folders
114. 10 Ways History’s Finest Kept Their Focus at Work | LifeDev
115. Scott H Young » Twenty Unique Ways to Use the 80/20 Rule Today
116. The Top 10 GTD & Productivity Sites/Blogs
117. The List to Beat All Lists: Top 20 Productivity Lists to Rock Your Tasks | Zen Habits
118. How to Reach Age 99: 100 Essential Habits | Nursing Degree Guide
119. 7 Amazingly Unique Beach Houses and Lake Houses | WebUrbanist
120. 7 Essential Cheat Sheets To Download | MakeUseOf.com
121. Illuminated Mind » 10 Counterintuitive Ways to Improve Your Life
122. Brighten up your life: 3 Tips from Thomas Edison on Living Optimistically | LifeDev
123. 7 Free Books That Should Be On Your Shelves – Stepcase Lifehack
124. 7 Examples of Recycled Urban Architecture | WebUrbanist
125. Great American Beach Towns in Beach + Island on Concierge.com
126. Neatorama » Blog Archive » 10 Richest People of All Time and How They Made Their Fortunes
127. 15 Killer Web Apps That’ll Rock Your World | Nethackz.com
128. Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Modern Life Survival Skills
129. 16 Great Personal Finance Resources & Blogs – Stepcase Lifehack
130. 50 Things to Do Before You Die 30 Creative Date Ideas That Don’t Cost A Lot Of Money
131. Healthiest Juices: The 10 Healthiest Beverages
132. Topless Robot – The 7 Most Quintessentially American Pop Culture Icons
133. 100 Shops you must visit 2008
134. 11 Websites To Save You Cash During The Recession – 7/3/2008
135. 50 songs to make you dance – Telegraph 50 songs to make you dance – Telegraph
136. 5 Services to Streamline Your Business Operations | Small Business Trends
137. Everything You Wanted to Know About Simplifying Your Life, and Way More | Zen Habits
138. 25 Ways to Help a Fellow Human Being Today | Zen Habits 8 Different Types of Headlines |
139. 20 Unusually Brilliant Bookcase and Bookshelf Designs
140. 15 Living Walls, Vertical Gardens & Sky Farms
141. 10 Cool Websites We Recommend
142. PC World – Top 50 Tech Visionaries
143. 5 Tips to Help You Live a Well-Balanced Life http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-22859295
144. 12 Effective Strategies Apple Uses to Create Loyal Customers – Inside CRM
145. 7 Secrets to Improve Your Ability to Learn (For Students of All Ages)
146. 25 Projects You Can Outsource to a Virtual Assistant | Elance
147. 20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient | Six Revisions
148. 17 Tips to Help You Get Leaner and Fitter | Zen Habits
149. The Happiness Project: This Wednesday: Sixteen tips for getting good sleep.
150. Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Calendar Tricks