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Because I prefer to write content that will remain relevant for more than a few days, I don’t usually write about current affairs. We’re also coming out of World Domination Week, with the launch of my manifesto and everything related to that.

But I decided to postpone what I had planned to write about today, and tell you about Zimbabwe instead. In case you weren’t aware of what’s happening over there, here’s the latest news courtesy of the New York Times.

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I’m heading out on my next overseas adventure early tomorrow morning. I’m going on an independent journey through the Baltics (Latvia, Estonia, Finland), over to St. Petersburg in Russia, and then on to a couple of other exciting stops that I’ll discuss later.

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Hello everyone, thank you for reading my manifesto on world domination. Here is the first-ever Art of Nonconformity video update!

I should warn you first that this is good (I think) but not great. My friend Ken, the amazing videographer, brought all this crazy stuff to my apartment and we did the whole thing in two takes. Watching it later, I can see a few things I could do better for next time, so don’t worry– if you guys like it, we’ll do some more.

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Dear Fellow Worldchangers,

Greetings from Seattle, Washington. I present to you your own copy of my promised manifesto, modestly entitled A Brief Guide to World Domination.

Tech Notes: The report should work in all computers with Adobe Reader installed. If for some reason it doesn’t work, please send me a quick note with details of what went wrong.

Copyright: I am the copyright owner of the report, so that means you can’t sell it or steal it. But otherwise, you are welcome to quote from it or share it with others. You can also upload a copy of the document to your own site, as long as you include a link back here and don’t change the content.

Please link to the manifesto here at this page:
http://chrisguillebeau.com/3×5/a-brief-guide-to-world-domination

A Few Things You’ll Learn in the Report

• The Two Most Important Questions in the Universe
• Why Ruling and Changing the World are Interrelated
• The Clear Alternative to Being Unremarkably Average
• True Stories from Zen Habits, Kiva, Randy Pausch, and more
• The Most Important Work We Can Do
• Life Lessons from My Singapore Airlines flight to Tokyo

Resource Page

I will be creating a resource page for the manifesto with more information and a video update on Thursday. But for now, please leave your comments in this post.

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My nice university-sponsored health insurance is ending soon, so I thought it would be good to go in for a check-up. On Friday morning I headed down to the university clinic right next to where I used to go to school.

The good news is that I’m fit and healthy, as I expected to be. The bad news is that I’m not sure what they think of me over at the clinic anymore, because the medical history review got off to a rocky start.

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