Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Blogging, Finance, Money and Relationships, Writing on Jan 18th, 2008
This is a notion I picked up in grad school when I was getting my Masters in Writing: For a lot of writers it helps to keep a certain reader in mind as they sit down to write.
Will X like this part? X will think this is funny, right?
It really helps materialize an otherwise ethereal [...]
The other day I noticed one particular post I wrote was getting a crazy amount of hits and after looking at the numbers I realized it was because it was getting linked to from the Wall Street Journal.
I was like, huh? Turns out a guy over there wrote an article (which was on their home [...]
Take a look at this USA Today article, it’s about seniors using the internet to make money.
I think it’s really interesting and great that older people are getting into computers and spending their time doing something they really enjoy. That they are making some money off it is also fantastic.
But the article is severely flawed. [...]
You know that feeling you get when you see a job posting that’s perfect? It has everything you want in your dream job, the pay is incredible, and the requirements seem to be talking about you?
And you know how you put so much work into re-doing your resume just specifically for that job? And how [...]
Posted in Blogging on Oct 25th, 2007
So I know this blog is very young and all but lately I’ve found myself thinking about it WAY too much. Everything that I do or that happens in my life is met with “how can I turn this into a good post?”
Now, I’m familiar with a similar effect when it comes to writing. That [...]
Posted in Blogging on Oct 22nd, 2007
Just over a year ago I realized that I hadn’t gone to the gym in a while so I got really down on myself for being lazy and wasting money on a gym membership.
So I rededicated myself and went to the gym every day before work, five days a week. It lasted about a month [...]
Don’t worry, all subsequent posts will NOT be numbered like this.
So here’s why I’m starting this blog: I have another blog that I’ve kept up on for the past few years (two, actually), and I’ve come to a few realizations about them:
They weren’t specific enough. One kind of was—it dealt with immigration issues and being [...]
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