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The following list is a collection of a few best practices which have proven valuable over a decade. We recommend perusal and thoughtful consideration about how these examples may benefit your current endeavors.

# Area Best Practice
000 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Google Scholar deserves first mention at the top for the elegant simplicity of the approach if not also the motto below the search box.
000 Ideation Starting with the worst idea resonates with Charlie Munger and Carl Jacobi, who are always inverting.
332 Investing and Life The Investors Business Daily system at investors.com has a solid set of investing content and a good systematic approach to handling the individual psychology. Don't miss the habits of success in the IBD Weekly paper and relatiod short biographies.
629 Car Mechanics South Main Auto has a lot of great videos on tough car mechanics problems.
629 Finite Element Analysis, ANSYS 1 PADT has good blod covering a number of ANSYS topics.
2 The XANSYS mailing list and archives are a magnificent set of answers to tricky questions.
650 Interviewing The book Chess versus Checkers by Jack Ryan is a short simple guide to the questions behind the questions encountered during interviewing and should provide benefit to anyone who interviews - on either side of the table.
695 Roofing, Residential 1 Many roofing topics are covered in useful detail at http://www.roofingcalc.com.
2 The LSU (Lousiana State University) Ag department has a nice amount of information on roofing wind resistance.
3 Shingle Damage Evaluation images (in several parts) by Prugar Consulting show a good variety of common characteristics of asphalt shingle aging.
740 Data Graphics 1 The work of Edward Tufte provides a number of wonderful examples of good and bad data graphics.
2 Be sure to check out the bulletin board, as it is certainly one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking on the internet.
740 Printable Paper Simple and handy: Printable paper has a large collection of printable graph paper in more forms than you know.
760 Web Design 1 W3 schools at https://www.w3schools.com has a lot of well organized material with examples an a tool to explore the examples.
2 The Mozilla Developers Network web documents are also very good.