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Playing the Numbers Game 11 Sep 2010 | 06:12 am
The first Ruby on Rails web development contract I ever got, with zero Rails experience whatsoever, was for $85/hour. To get it, I sent out 80 CVs in 2 weeks. The consulting gig I’m doing right now? ...
Achieving Personal Goals 7 Sep 2010 | 04:20 am
The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you’re not good enough. On occasion some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. D...
How to Deal With Negative Emotions 13 Aug 2009 | 07:15 am
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. – Oscar Wilde A while back I read a book called Real-Time Relationships, by Stefan Molyneux. It’s a book about creating relationships that ...
Social Skydiving: Where Do You Meet People? 8 Aug 2009 | 04:19 am
The networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatedly so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals, because they have a sta...
Overcoming Loneliness 4 Aug 2009 | 04:14 am
If you got the skin to be rejected 800 times in a row, 801 is gonna be a crazy play. – Social Media Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, describing the Hot Girl Rule (~45:10) Having travelled and moved aro...
The Key to Success 30 Jul 2009 | 08:47 pm
Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich. – Jim Carrey I have learned the secret to getting rich in math and science. And now, for the f...
Becoming an Expert 29 Jan 2009 | 07:31 am
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. – Laurence J. Peter The World’s Fastest Man in 1980, Allan Wells, would not have made the podium in the 100-metre ra...
Morten Lund on Entrepreneurship 16 Jan 2009 | 08:13 am
Morten Lund is as entrepreneurial as it gets. He has invested in more than 80 companies around the world, most famously Skype. The first couple minutes of this video, a speech Lund gave about entrepr...
Why You Should Study Philosophy 5 Jan 2009 | 02:11 pm
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. – Aristotle As Ayn Rand pointed out in her excellent book, Philosophy: Who Needs It , we are all philosophers. We all ha...
Fixing Bugs 2 Oct 2008 | 09:37 am
A common recipe for personal growth is to start with what you have, identify what sucks about it, and try to make it suck less. Software developers call this “fixing bugs.” “Fixing bugs” may seem lik...
