Recently I’ve had some designer friends up in arms about crowdsourcing. If you aren’t familiar with the concept: Instead of paying a graphic designer, you offer a sum amount to a group of designers and let them fight it out. You say I’ll pay $200 for a great logo, and the designer who designs the…
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“We’ll pay you $100,000 per year to sit on your couch and watch your favorite show.” Congratulations, you’ve just found your dream job. Unfortunately, 99.9999% of the population won’t get this sort of offer. And truth be told, you probably wouldn’t find fulfillment in a job like this. Jersey Shore gets old after the first…
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I’ll let you in on a little secret. This blog right here is the least successful thing I do. Supposedly, I have 400 readers. (Though that number is suspect.) But these blog posts probably take the most amount of time to write. I write three each week, and don’t really make any money from these…
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We’re a people prone to wander. We’re prone to leave the God we love. It became our new nature after Adam and Eve ate from the fruit. The Knowledge of Good and Evil entered into humanity and we no longer relied on God as our source of truth. Jesus redeemed us from the law. He…
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Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been on more road trips than I care to ever do again. We drove about 20 hours a couple weeks ago to get to Albuquerque, NM to visit friends and see the balloon fiesta. We’re now in Kerrville, TX (5 hours away) to visit my parents. And the…
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My wife and I find ourselves in an interesting position. I’m no longer working toward anything specific here in Dallas. She’s no longer in school. There’s absolutely nothing tying us here. Both of our families live away from us. So they aren’t keeping us here. She eventually wants to move to Miami. Me too. But we…
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You know that friend who always tells you how awesome they are? “I got straight A’s in college, so I’m pretty smart. I was also a starter on the basketball team…so ya…I was pretty good. People at work always tell me how funny I am.” That’s the annoying self promoter. It comes across in the…
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Yesterday I put a new recurring item on my to-do list: “Make money.” That’s right, I have to remind myself to make money. I suppose that’s part of the problem of doing something you’re passionate about and working for yourself. I enjoy writing and communicating with folks, so it’s so easy for me to spend…
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Everyone knows how to be a good employee. You do what’s required of you. You do what people expect. That keeps your boss and others satisfied. Simple. Thus the way to become a better than good employee is to do more than what’s required. Obvious. That’s the way you get raises and promotions. That’s the…
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Whenever I speak in front of people, I always say, “There’s the right way to do it, then there’s the way everyone actually does it.” So often, we think we need to do thing the right way. If we want to publish a book, we talk to a publisher, present our proposal, and wait for…
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