Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Budgeting, Credit cards, Happiness on Nov 26th, 2007
I was up at 3:30am.
I threw elbows to get through the crowds.
I stood in a line that snaked through an entire Target for 45 minutes to check out.
I saw a woman pay with a credit card that she hadn’t even activated yet and asked the cashier to “put $100 on this one and $100 on [...]
With the Thanksgiving break I just didn’t have enough time to put together a brand new ad so I’m going to cheat here and put up what I think are my very first ads. Ever. I had no idea how to start so I just flipped through some magazines to see if any images jumped [...]
Posted in Ad Friday, Advertising on Nov 23rd, 2007
I want to thank everyone who has posted comments for Ad Fridays in the past and for those who will in the future. I can’t stress how important it is to get some feedback on these ads. Without it I’ll just twiddle my thumbs around and not really now if I’m headed in the right [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Nov 22nd, 2007
How I got here: This book has been talked about in a bunch of places, especially the Amazon Book Blog (now Omnivoracious). Díaz wrote one other book, a short-story collection called Drown, which was very well received.
I haven’t really looked forward to sitting down and reading like this in a long time, so this was [...]
I have a Roth IRA that I run myself through Scottrade. I used to have a taxable account with some money in it but I folded it and focused on my Roth. As of now I do not own any stocks anywhere except for my one Berkshire Hathaway B stock inside the Roth.
But I still [...]
Posted in Writing on Nov 22nd, 2007
So I wrote about my “perpetual discovery” and eventual incorporation of rewriting as an important step in my writing process.
It’s fun to look at how other writers have completely transformed their words as they rewrite. Check out this 2007 interview from The Paris Review with the late Norman Mailer. A few pages into it there [...]
Posted in Finance, Happiness, Jobs, Writing on Nov 21st, 2007
This article over at Brip Blap called “8 steps to a six figure career” has me thinking about my own decisions about choosing a major (he warns readers: Don’t major in English.)
Now, I majored in Communications and at the last minute added a double major in Philosophy because I had taken so many classes it [...]
Posted in Creativity, Jobs on Nov 21st, 2007
Here is a good article on the importance of humor in the workplace.
One of the benefits the author cites is that it fosters creativity by getting people to, if even for a bit, snap out of the trance of work and think about things differently. Laughing can help release stress too.
Another interesting point is about [...]
Posted in Blogging, Freelancing, Happiness, Writing on Nov 20th, 2007
Finally this is finished and I am so happy. I had underestimated how much work it was going to be and how much time it was going to take up. This is the first day in a couple of weeks where I really felt like I could devote myself to writing and not think about [...]
As I’ve stated before, my reasons for starting this blog were to a) get published and b) get a job in advertising. Yesterday I was on the bus reading and an idea hit me for a blog post: rewriting is very important, I jotted down in my Moleskine (for more on the importance of jotting [...]
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