Business

How many of your ideas have been overnight successes? Oh. Sorry to hear that. But hey, don’t give up. You might just be on a lifetime odyssey toward incredible success.  And you could do worse than to remember a word of advice from a guy whose creations were once unceremoniously destroyed by mothers around the [...]

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I’m guilty. I don’t really read for pleasure anymore, and rarely for insight. Instead, I skim, in the vain hope that I’ll stumble across a piece of information that’s worth paraphrasing and sharing with my followers.  This makes me less of an audience member and more like a member of a relay team, who’s more [...]

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Justin on August 8th, 2011

“So, what do you do?” Man, do I hate that question. Granted, I ask it all the time, but that’s because I’m genuinely interested in what other people do for a living.  But when someone else asks me that same question, I have to fight the urge to change the subject immediately in order to [...]

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Justin on August 5th, 2011

A friend of mine just quit her job, and she asked me if I know anyone who’s looking to hire an office manager.  (If you do, let me know.) I want to help her find a job, because I’ve known and worked with her for years on various projects and she’s always been professional, courteous, [...]

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On Friday, The Business Insider‘s latest Chart of the Day portrayed Facebook’s unbelievable effect on the rest of the web.  Unfortunately, the key word here is “unbelievable,” but not in the way The Business Insider intended. But why is this report so unbelievable, and why do we keep falling for all these not-so-thinly-veiled advertisements that [...]

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