The Sex and Cash Theory: Keep Your Day Job

August 30th, 2010 with View Comments

This is post number three in the Do More, Plan Less Series.  Click here for the first, and second. Last month I read Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity, by Hugh Macleod. The book is amazingly readable, funny, and smart.  I highly recommend it.  With this post I want to discuss one of [...]

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The Secret to Success

August 9th, 2010 with View Comments

This is post number one in the Do More, Plan Less Series. We are always looking for The Secret to our problems.  That one thing that will make it easier to accomplish our goals.  We search through blogs, read countless books and ask our friends how they did X, Y, Z.  But somehow we don’t [...]

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My Twitter Success Story and A Reason to Get Out There

May 19th, 2010 with View Comments

If you haven’t noticed, the blog has been completely redesigned.  I have a few people to thank for that, which I will get to. Econ Apps’ design started as the Atahualpa theme that my girlfriend and I customized ourselves.  It was fine when I just started writing and it was definitely original, which was important [...]

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The Way I Write: A Manifesto

May 15th, 2010 with View Comments

After blogging for the past two months or so I have realized that I need to document my intentions for this blog and my philosophy as a blogger. Much of what I wrote about this past few months stemmed from my personal blogging philosophy. The purpose of this Manifesto is to crystallize that philosophy and [...]

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How To Think For Yourself

March 17th, 2010 with View Comments

I tend to ask my girlfriend what she thinks before moving forward with a task or action.  Overtime I have relied on her more and more for advice on smaller and smaller things.  This is wrong for several reasons and is something that happens a lot online.  How do I know?  I know because of [...]

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The Evolution of a Consumption Whore

February 23rd, 2010 with View Comments

My buddy Shane Mac talks a lot about being a consumption whore and its downsides.  I’ve changed my way of thinking significantly since meeting the dude.  As well as being in the blogosphere and on Twitter.  Everyone in this realm is doing so many great things and achieving so much.  And part of their success [...]

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