I was listening to NPR today and they talked to a writer from Newsweek (whose name I didn’t catch, unfortunately) about this year’s $1.5 trillion Federal budget deficit. Everyone says we should fix it, but we can’t come to any sort of agreement on how. Since the vast majority of the population receives some benefit [...]
I’m back! I’ve been blogging daily for the last year or so, but I took a few weeks off in April to pursue another endeavor, and a few weeks turned into the whole month of April. Then that turned into May as well. So I decided June 1 was the new plan, but that came [...]
Warning: the blog post by Derek that I refer to below can be found here. It’s incredibly sad, so don’t read if you need to be upbeat today A friend sent me a link yesterday to a blog post published earlier this week by a man named Derek K. Miller. It’s entitled “The Last Post” [...]
Lady Gaga is blowing up the charts again with her new single, “Born This Way”, which “celebrates” a variety of different types of diversity, including race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. I’m going to sidestep the central controversy this song was written to exploit, and instead point out a stupid and dangerous idea that this song [...]
If you call my phone right now, I probably won’t answer unless: We have a call scheduled for right now (and I try to avoid those) You’re my wife, immediate family, or cofounder You’re in my address book (which is family, friends, and a few clients) If #1 or #2 applies, I try to pick [...]
I’ve been having trouble writing these daily posts for the last couple months. The reasons range from boring and predictable (I’m busy) to slightly more interesting (having more readers has given me writer’s fright), but the process I’ve been going through while writing has been kind of interesting to me. Writing is an inherently creative [...]
Last month, I gave up eating any candy for 30 days (well, 28 days, actually). I have good news and bad. The bad news is that I forgot one night and had a small piece of chocolate. The good news is that I don’t really like chocolate and that’s the only candy I had all [...]
One of the things I love about freelancing is that it gives me an immense amount of flexibility in choosing how much of my time to monetize. People often talk about the value of their time, but until you freelance, that concept might be hard to really understand. When you work 40 hrs a week [...]
