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Living the Counterfeit Life
Alex would print up fake 5 and 10 dollar bills on his copy machine and spend them in local delis. “They check hundred dollar bills for counterfeit but not ten dollar bills,” he told me. Alex had a...
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What Do You Do When You Find a Dead Body?
Google has stopped using GPAs to evaluate job candidates. My 11 year old just told me, “Grade point averages don’t count until 6th grade.” I haven’t yet told her the good news about Google. That she...
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How To Be a Slave
I hate being a slave. One might think: don’t be a jerk. You weren’t in chains in the 1800s. That was real slavery. Ok, I hate arguing. Go away. But let’s take a look at the average person. The average...
View ArticleEp. 29 Adam Braun – How To Quit Your Job & Do What You Love
I’m ordinary.Any ordinary person can create extraordinary change.I qualify. You qualify, too. I learned this reading The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change by...
View ArticleEp. 39 – James Manos: If your boss paid you to quit, would you do it?
If your boss paid you to quit, would you do it? That’s what happened to James Manos, writer and co-producer of The Sopranos and Dexter. He had a crappy job. Everybody starts with a crappy job. Some...
View ArticleDo You Make Fear Decisions or Growth Decisions?
I was afraid I was going to lose my biggest client. And my job. So I let him yell at me repeatedly. I met a friend of mine. She said, “My grandma told me there are only two types of decisions:...
View ArticleHow To Go From $0 to $1,000,000 in Two Years
A Couple of years ago I wrote a post about how it was the year you had to quit your job. I gave the reasons why. It wasn’t a gung-ho “you have to be an entrepreneur” article. It was more: bad shit is...
View Article10 Reasons Your Boss Hates You. And He/She Is Right.
I had a boss who would push his glasses down on his nose when I walked in and look at me above the glasses. Like I was not worth focusing on. Like I was half a human. He hated me. Your boss hates you...
View ArticleThe Choices You Make Today Will Be Your Biography Tomorrow…
I didn’t want to start a business. I wanted to interview prostitutes. I started a web series at HBO called “III:am” about what people were up to in NYC at 3 in the morning. Of course: I interviewed...
View ArticleEp. 209: Bobby Casey – Travel the World (Forever) and Never Feel Broke Again…
I heard an eight-year-old kid tell another eight-year-old that he’s not welcome in his home. He said “Trump or Clinton?” “Clinton.” And that was that. They kept walking. Kept debating and I bet...
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