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Posted in alternative income, Freelancing on Jul 26th, 2010
I’ve gotten some emails from readers asking to write a few words about Ramit’s Earn1k course so they can get my impressions of it. So today I’m covering one of the topics he emphasizes early on: failing fast. Here’s how most of us expect to start making money on the side: Brainstorm ideas of what [...]
Posted in Better Employee Series, Happiness, Jobs on Dec 29th, 2009
You remember Archimedes of Syracuse, eh? The king asks Archimedes to determine if a present he’s received is actually solid gold. Unsolved problem at the time. It tortures the great Greek mathematician for weeks — insomnia haunts him and he twists and turns in his bed for nights on end. Finally, his equally exhausted wife [...]
Posted in Writing on Dec 12th, 2009
There’s an awesome piece in this month’s Poets & Writer’s issue by Benjamin Percy called “Go the Distance.” In it, he talks about how Rocky Balboa is his role model when it comes to persistence and never giving up. I’d love to put the whole article up here for everyone to read, but I’m sure [...]
Posted in Motivation on Jan 23rd, 2008
One of my favorite novels of all time is Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. He also wrote The Virgin Suicides, which I have not read but have been meaning to since I first read Middlesex. Well today I was running a Google News search for “Foster Wallace,” as I tend to do about twice a week [...]
