Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Tips, Writing on Dec 31st, 2007
Life is busy and crazy and unpredictable and so is our unconscious, so it’s no surprise how difficult it is to keep all of it straight and organized. I want to share a few tools I use every day that really help get me through the days as efficiently as possible while always keeping the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2007
Even though this blog is not super old I still felt like I wanted to post my favorite posts so far. Even though some of them didn’t get that much traffic, I still really like these.
Keeping your budget with a routine: On Creativity
Focus on the details: Mr. Beane
On Black Friday
The importance of rewriting
All the Money [...]
Posted in Investing, Outside the box on Dec 29th, 2007
Here is an interesting article from Business Week (via MSN Money) that shows how bad off Africa still is and how charity, after years of trying, hasn’t helped better the region as much as investing for profit might.
Posted in Advertising, Creativity on Dec 28th, 2007
Here are a couple articles that bring up an interesting way of generating ideas.
They both come down to the same thing: for every idea you’re ultimately trying to come up with, create a list that is 100 concepts long.
So you want to create a hip Netflix ad? Come up with 100 and then go back [...]
Posted in Ad Friday, Advertising, Copywriting on Dec 28th, 2007
OK so today I’m back to Netflix. I know, I know, it seems I just can’t let it go. But while I was taking a walk around the block last week, thinking of a concept for a whole ‘nother campaign, my mind made another connection to the mailman idea.
So I have the concept, but I’m [...]
Posted in Creativity on Dec 27th, 2007
Anyone out there tried this? I was reading one of those “10 ways to add to you alternative income” type articles and it reminded me of this option. I sometimes use Istockphoto at work and so I though I would take a look at what it takes to be a photographer for them, supplying them [...]
One of my favorite authors/people/writers has another new one out, this time an article in Portfolio magazine called “The Evolution of an Investor.”
It’s a really interesting profile of a guy named Blaine Lourd and how he went from Wall Street trader to joining a cult-like organization called DFA.
As all Lewis pieces, it’s very interesting and [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books on Dec 27th, 2007
I’ve written before on how important word of mouth is (and should be for marketers) when it comes to buying new products (like books).
Amazon has some really great features that are perfect for people like me that like to read a lot but also like to try new books that we’ve never heard of. That’s [...]
Posted in Tips on Dec 26th, 2007
Here is a really great article from an issue that’s a few weeks old. It’s about how using checklists in emergency rooms helps save lives.
The first thing I thought of after reading it was, “How can I use this at work to make my/our job more efficient/better?”
Check it out because I think anyone in any [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books on Dec 26th, 2007
This is a short book of essays about boxing. The author, who happens to teach English at Boston College (I had no idea), calls it “an education at the fights” because he is a professor and he organizes the essays to sort of “teach” readers what he’s learned about boxing and from boxing.
Unfortunately, you never [...]
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