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Business Rule: Day-Traders Know Best

→ September 25, 2009

As I’ve absorbed information related to various strategies for escaping the mundanity of the corporate world over the past few months, I’ve recognized a few patterns and tendencies. One of the most disturbing is advice relating to obtaining sufficiency. It strikes me that the conventional wisdom is to steadily build a business until the income [...]

Get over Your Arrogance: Phone Menu Haters

→ August 14, 2009

There’s a recent groundswell in anti-phone menu tree vocalization. For some reason, it has become popular to expect that a human immediately answer the phone and immediately answer every question asked. Like these people, I dream of a Utopian world in which everyone at every company can answer every question I ever ask. Unlike these [...]

5 Tips for Being a Bad Entrepreneur

→ August 14, 2009

The motivation for this post springs partially from personal annoyance, anger, disgust, or some other negative emotion. The rest comes from my strong desire protect those early in their entrepreneurial development from the fear of a bleak future sculpted by the lies and incompetence of those in positions of apparent authority. Enter the rag in my [...]

Inspiration: Forget About Working Smarter. Forget About Working Period.

→ July 19, 2009

I absolutely love love love books that changed your life lists. Similarly, I’ve long believed that I’ve probably never even heard my favorite band because of the mass of music that we all miss for any number of reasons. There are tons of bands I’d love that will never even be recorded. [...]

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