Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Better Employee Series, Jobs, Writing on Nov 19th, 2008
This is the fifth post in a series about how we can all become better workers. The first post was about being early,the second was about having an opinion, Friday’s was about doing more, and the fourth was about helping your boss.
by Laffy4k
This one has less to do with work and what you do [...]
Posted in Books on Sep 30th, 2008
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I don’t like to equate quitting a book with failure, but that’s what it inevitably ends up feeling like. Atlas Shrugged wasn’t a bad book, I just didn’t see myself getting all the way through it. And honestly, the more and more I kept hearing about Ayn Rand and her way of thinking, [...]
Posted in Good Reads, the new yorker on Jun 6th, 2008
Here are some of the more interesting things I’ve been reading recently:
I’ve always wondered what the deal was with buying dividend stocks and when you “qualified” for the dividend based. Can you buy it the day before the dividend is distributed and then sell it afterwards? Not quite, but this post by Stockerblog explains it [...]
Posted in Creativity, Writing on May 2nd, 2008
Writing that title made me feel like I was penning the sequel to The Secret or something. Like I was going to write something akin to “Just follow this simple formula and all your writing block problems will be forever solved!”
Which isn’t what I’m saying but I am saying that it’ll definitely help you the [...]
Posted in Books on Apr 4th, 2008
So I’ve had a lot of trouble recently finding great books to read. Sure, I really liked Call Me by Your Name and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but it seems like I’ve been quitting a lot of books and it’s kind of bothering me. I used to read on until the end [...]
Posted in Books on Mar 24th, 2008
I’ve always believed that word of mouth was the best way to learn about new books that I might like to read. That’s why I use Amazon so much—I love seeing what lists people have that include books I’ve enjoyed. It’s fun and it exposes me to new books I never would’ve gotten into (like [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books on Mar 21st, 2008
Recently I’ve been quitting a lot of books and it’s made me think about the value of reading a “bad” book vs. just putting it away and picking up one you potentially might like.
I used to read through any book no matter what, but I think since I realized that books are infinite and you [...]
Posted in Happiness on Feb 29th, 2008
At my old job I used to take a one-hour lunch break where I could run some errands, eat lunch, and surf the web. It wasn’t your average lunch break though: I usually sat outside (in the summer) or in a lounge area (during the winter) and read my book for around 40 minutes. This [...]
Posted in Writing, the new yorker on Jan 25th, 2008
About six months ago I got a thing in the mail saying I could get a full year of The New Yorker for around $19, which I thought was great and felt I couldn’t turn it down. One reason was my newfound theory of knowing where you write, the other being that it would expose [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books on Dec 18th, 2007
I still think that word of mouth is the best way and most trustworthy way to find out about books. You find someone (or a site) that has similar tastes and then you can trust them and try something new or off base.
I love all the “best-of-the-year” lists. If you see enough of them you [...]
The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
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