Common Sense

Justin on March 12th, 2010

When you freelance for a living, your goal is simple: make as much money as you can without going insane.
That insanity comes from being overworked, underpaid or searching fruitlessly for reliable sources of income.  And while each of those is a problem unto itself, they all share a common cause:
You can’t succeed if you don’t [...]

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Admit it: deep down, you’ve always known that the world works differently for The Important People.
You just hate it when the world proves you right.
Take Conan O’Brien, for example.  The guy sends out a single tweet and he changes this girl’s life.  Meanwhile, you desperately retweet your own blog posts 14 times a day in [...]

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Last Thursday, I attended the fifth installment of Ignite Baltimore, an event designed to get people excited about creating positive change in Baltimore.
And yet, somehow, the experience had the exact opposite effect on me… and this got me thinking about HOW we talk about the things we most care about, and why we might want [...]

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