How do authors get paid? I’m coming at you here from the self-publishing aspect of things because I’ve never done traditional publishing once I found out the rigmarole you had to go through to get that situated and accomplished. Just wasn’t the thing I’m interested in right now. Time wise, schedule wise, and quite frankly […]
Theft or Freedom? Can You Really Avoid Paying Taxes?
Ah, the tax man cometh. What a great topic considering I just finished taxes for personal and business and I have to say that it is the most I have ever paid in my life. And you know what I did? I was happy to pay it. I know that sounds weird but think about […]
How Do Marketers Take Advantage Of The Just Noticable Difference (JND)?
I guess that could stand for a couple of things, depending on which Wikipedia entry you’re looking at. But basically the JND is that key point to where you’re looking at something and you can start noticing that there’s a difference between how it is now and how it was before. I know this is […]
eBooks Are Here to Stay – Do You Read Them Properly?
I’m still a pretty big fan of the print versions of things, especially if they have a lot of illustrations or fun pictures. But I’ve come around to accepting the fact that, well, digital is the way to go and you just can’t get away from ebooks. I guess you were there too, huh? And […]
You Can Learn Basic Programming Even If You Suck At It
You’re deciding to pick up some code, drop into the text editor and spank out some awesome scripts, right? Eh, maybe, maybe not. Well, besides the obvious answers of picking a script at a script repository site, you just have to search for it, search for script templates or what not, and then modifying it […]
Stuck Up or Knocked Down? Here’s How to Learn Humility
You have had a lot of great things happen in your life maybe. Or maybe you just come from a side of town or a family to where you have a good reason to think quite well of yourself. Or maybe all of that is just a bunch of poppy cock and you just have […]
What Is The Best Way To Advertise Online?
I’m gonna go ahead and take the cop out answer here and say, “Going viral.” Unfortunately, that’s not something you can really control. The next best would probably be the lower cousin of that, and that’s with your network; your social interactions and your just being plain old awesome, and people want to share because […]
Do You Know Who You Really Are? Ready to Learn?
Ah, the age old question: complexity, internal meaning, self-worth, purpose. All of these things that make up the infinite, or almost infinite, because you’re not God, you. The unique, creative, awesome you. You cannot fully understand yourself while you’re on this planet and who’s to say how full of an understanding you’ll have at your […]
Running Away From Homework? You Might Want to See This
I know, you’ve had a long day at school. Whether it’s middle school, high school, college, it doesn’t matter. It’s all homework, it’s all the same. Or you just have a project even at work and taking it home. We’ll focus on school though because that’s probably who’s searching for this. It’s been rough, you […]