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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. John Donne In good cartoonist form, Scott Adams starts with a killer hook: “Why do we make B students sit through the same classes as their brainy peers? That’s like trying to train your [...]

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Your Name: ______________________  Today’s Date: ___________ Where is your energy naturally directed? Extroverts’ energy is directed primarily outward, towards people and things outside of themselves. Introverts’ energy is primarily directed inward, towards their own thoughts, perceptions, and reactions. Therefore, Extroverts tend to be more naturally active, expressive, social, and interested in many things, whereas Introverts [...]

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Ghost Writing

I am in the test phase of serving as a ghost writer for a SEO company that promotes products in the guise of informational blog posts. I get paid two cents per word to write a blog post on almost any topic, but targeted at a particular audience and featuring two keywords at least twice [...]

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Interesting feature from The New York Times Magazine: For the 10th consecutive December, the magazine has chosen to look back on the past year through a distinctive prism: ideas.  Our digest of short entries refracts the light beam of human inspiration, breaking it up into its constituent colors — innovations and insights from a spectrum [...]

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Time for my unveiling!  I am officially a business owner, with a website and everything: After three months of “market research”, I have concluded there is a market for my whimsical creations. But not the lil’old grandmas I originally anticipated. Take Trent, for instance. He’s 26 years old and commissioned a Drag Racing Bear for [...]

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I am in the process of starting a business.  Despite my Master’s in Business Administration, I do not have a business plan. I have no idea how I will scale the business so that it will be profitable. I do not have a elevator pitch prepared for potential meetings with angel investors. I have no [...]

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The Emma Story Contest

Dear Friends, Writers, and Friends of Writers, Have you ever dreamed of authoring a children’s book? I am holding a contest for a short story (no more than 2,000 words) based on a toy bear named Emma and a young child (between the ages of 5 – 12 years old) who have an adventure that [...]

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The Olympic motto is Citius, Altius, Fortius — Latin for Swifter, Higher, Stronger. Does anyone else, in light of recent events, see the inevitable dilemma this motto creates? The words are comparatives. It’s unattainable. Unlike excellence, which might theoretically be achieved, by choosing the comparative form Baron de Coubertin condemned athletes to a perpetual striving, [...]

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For my global economics course, we were assigned an article by Alan Blinder from Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006. His thesis is that as information technology improves, developed nations will outsource their impersonal service jobs to the cheapest vendor (this practice is called “offshoring”) but will necessarily retain their personal services. This massive shift in labor [...]

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In 1994, Tony Campolo gave a speech at Biola’s Missions Conference which strongly attacked business as a valid vocation for Christians and criticized capitalism as “an anti-Christian value system.” While I won’t quote his speech at length, I fear his message encapsulated many Christians’ attitude towards business and the economy. Allow me to take his [...]

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