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Working from Anywhere in the World - Chris Guillebeau has a great entry on living a digital lifestyle. He shares some upsides and downsides. I don’t think the best way to approach your goals is to glamorize them needlessly, but be willing to accept the benefits and costs of the lifestyle they create.
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Quick hypothetical question: where would you get more work done? Lying on a beach with your friends, or sitting alone in an office room?
I would wager that the majority of people would be far more productive in the office room. The beach is great, but between distracting conversation of friends and the lazy rays of [...]
“I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn’t all that important to me.“ - Lisa Alther
“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.” - Jessamyn West
“Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because [...]
There are a lot of guides for how to make money on the internet. Most of them aren’t worth mentioning. Often the author greatly oversells the concept, creating wild claims that you can earn $10,000 per month with just a few hours of work each month. In other cases, the author doesn’t have any past [...]
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The thinking process of most innovators is something like this:
Get an idea for what you want to make.
Create it.
Find someone who wants it.
I think any entrepreneur will immediately recognize this is a horrible strategy for starting a business (or making any decision). By making something before you see any opportunity, you may waste a lot [...]
In life, few things are truly zero-sum. A zero-sum game has winners and losers. If you believe that in order to make $100, someone else needs to lose $100, that’s zero-sum. While there are often tradeoffs in life, in most situations having a winner doesn’t mean there needs to be a loser.
Unfortunately, I think it’s [...]
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The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives - An interesting talk about the five pillars of morality across human cultures and why liberals and conservatives disagree.
In Praise of Salaried Employment - Tim Clark has an interesting article about the joys of not working for yourself. I’m a big fan of entrepreneurship, especially smaller [...]
In the last two weeks I’ve been reading Friedrich Hayek’s, The Road to Serfdom. Hayek argues in this book that any form of collectivism (whether left or right) inevitably leads to a totalitarian state. My views are mostly libertarian, so I agree with almost all of the arguments Hayek presented.
Reading through the book, however, I [...]
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I don’t often get a chance to promote charitable causes on this website. However, I’ve recently become involved with fund-raising for The Curry BizCamp. The BizCamp is a program dedicated to training underprivileged kids the basic skills of entrepreneurship and starting a business.
Although I don’t come from an underprivileged background, being introduced to entrepreneurship and [...]
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Getting better at anything requires feedback, that’s obvious. But what is often more important is selectively ignoring most of the feedback you receive. If you’re basing your decisions entirely on a comment by one person, you’re probably going to make a mistake.
Although it may seem like arrogance, I think following your own intuition and reasoning [...]
