Business Advice
How to Do Enough Work to Feel Happy Without Burning Out
After years of feeling like I’m never doing “enough,” I found a daily formula that works for me and keeps me balanced.
Armchair Sociology
Three Big Lessons I Learned This Year
What do a computer crash, a 20 year-old video game, and a year of epic highs and lows have to do with the meaning of life?
Armchair Sociology
The Three Ways to Get Whatever You Want
Life is complicated. You have hopes, you have dreams, and you have desires… … but you also have all these doubts and fears and worries keeping you awake at night, insisting that you should be bigger and better and richer and more successful than you are now, be farther ahead Read more…
Storytelling
The Real Hidden Genius of Pulp Fiction
When Pulp Fiction debuted in 1994, writer-director Quentin Tarantino was hailed as a filmmaking genius, and his movie rewired filmmakers’ brains for the next 20 years. The film earned tons of buzz for a number of valid reasons: its unexpected revival of John Travolta’s career its profanity-fueled pop culture dialogue Read more…
Armchair Sociology
If You Want to Change Your Life, You’ve Got to Start Somewhere
Here are some easy things you can start doing today that may change your life in a big way.
Business Advice
Six Freelance Survival Tips to Overcome the Horror of Self-Employment
Here are 6 freelance survival lessons to help you survive the uncertainty, doubt, fear, and long lonely nights of working for yourself.
Social Media
I Can’t Believe I’ve Been Doing This for Ten Years
I celebrate a very special anniversary this month. It’s a number that not a lot of people reach. In fact, if you had told me when we started that we’d be still be together all these years, I’d have said you were crazy. But no, it’s true. It really happened. Read more…
Armchair Sociology
How to Build Something That Thrills People
A few weeks ago, I told my friend that I was preparing to speak at the first-ever MoNage event in Boston, an event that’s focused on the future of communications. “So what’s your topic?” she asked. “The emotional side of how we communicate now.” “Like what?” Good question. I started Read more…
Armchair Sociology
3 Steps for Building Your 21st Century Career
How to adapt your career path to the realities of the new economy.
Business Advice
The Mistake That Most Startup Founders Make
There’s a difference between an idea and a business.