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How I started taming my workaholic tendencies

Posted to: Knowing yourself | Money | Productivity
June 27th, 2008
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After my first visit to the farm, I quickly invited myself back. “I’m coming there without my kids,” I told him.
When I got there, he made me hamburger that was shaped a little too much like how it might have looked in the cow’s body, and then he asked me what I wanted.
“I want this …

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How to sell anything to anyone

Posted to: Entrepreneurship
June 25th, 2008
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People are always asking me what our business model is for Brazen Careerist. Now that we have a network of 150 great bloggers, we are focusing on companies. A lot of companies come to us asking for access to the bloggers. Not surprisingly, companies want to recruit from the bloggers and their friends. But we …

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How to identify someone who is giving you bad advice

Posted to: Self-management
June 24th, 2008
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The worst career advice I ever gave was to my brother’s college roommate, Robert Buckley. He was one year out of college when he asked me if he should quit healthcare consulting to become an actor.
I said, No, that’s the dumbest idea I ever heard.
He told me he thought he had talent, and then (like …

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Seven reasons why graduate school is outdated

June 18th, 2008
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It used to be that the smart kids went to graduate school. But today, the workplace is different, and it might be that only the desperate kids go to graduate school. Today there are new rules, and new standards for success. And for most people, graduate school is the path to nowhere. Here are seven …

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Welcome London Guardian Readers!

Posted to: How to blog
June 14th, 2008
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Welcome London Guardian readers, and thank you for visiting my blog. I write about careers, and often the advice I give includes stories from my own life. Here are some places to start reading that will give you a taste of this intersection of work and life.
Three columns leading up to the article you read …

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The hardest part of my job is that everyone lies about parenting

Posted to: Journalism | Parenting
June 10th, 2008
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When I was growing up, there was lots of chatter in the media about how models gave girls bad role models. Today that’s old news. What we should talk about now is how the media portrays moms.
Take a look at the spread in People magazine of Jennifer Lopez and her one-month-old twins. The photos are …

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Twitter, social media, and unmashing the mashable

June 4th, 2008
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When I started doing Twitter, I put my Twitter feed on the sidebar of my blog. It seemed smart: more content means more traffic, and more traffic is good. But after two weeks of Twitter, I removed it. And then, when I was blogging about important topics like ditching Hebrew school as a career harbinger, …

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New way to measure blog ROI

Posted to: How to blog | Knowing yourself
June 3rd, 2008
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I got an email from this guy who told me he thinks I need a friend on a farm. I think he wrote the email right after I wrote about being a pint-sized ENTJ on the estate-sized front lawn of my grandma’s house. I am not sure how he knew I am fascinated with farms, …

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