Ethics

Justin on January 11th, 2012

No, I’m not talking about getting more “likes” or raising your Klout score, because that doesn’t matter.  What matters is what people use. For example: When I’m looking for a new place for dinner, I read restaurant reviews. When I’m booking a trip, I read hotel reviews. When I need a new book about a [...]

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Justin on June 21st, 2011

I dig Chris Brogan’s post on what to do when you don’t want to market. Personally, I hardly ever want to be marketing.  I’d rather be creating something awesome than trying to convince people how awesome it is. But if I never marketed, I’d just be making awesome stuff in a room all by myself, [...]

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Amazingly, this is not a blog post about Weinergate, although the title certainly applies.  (So does this one.) This is a blog post about how I almost launched 3 brand new ventures in the same week, then came to my senses. Granted, I’m still launching two of them.  But that third one will have to [...]

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Justin on April 12th, 2010

Last week, Chris Penn blogged his 11 Little Secrets to staying happy, healthy, productive and sane.  Fellow bloggers followed suit, turning the idea into a mini-meme. So I’ll bite. Justin Kownacki’s 11 Little Secrets to Being Moderately Successful 1.  Don’t Use Your Job as an Excuse for Not Having a Life. Ideally, you enjoy your [...]

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Justin on April 9th, 2010

Tiger Woods cheated on his wife. We, the morally upstanding public, are supposed to hate him. Michael Vick murdered dogs. We, the morally outraged public, are supposed to hate him. Bernie Madoff made a fortune scamming people. We, the innocent victims, are supposed to hate him. But Tiger Woods is also a dad.  Do we [...]

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