Beyond the Rhetoric

If you want to get ahead in this world, you have to work for it. Yes, there are some exceptions to this rule–like being extremely lucky or starting out with some significant advantages–but it is generally true that you’ll have to sweat out those hard hours of practice if you want to get really good [...]

Last year, the last typewriter factory shut down for good. These antiquated machines have been over taken by computers. To be honest, I didn’t even know a typewriter factory even existed this long. In areas of the world where power grids aren’t as reliable as they are in the first world, it’s easy to see [...]

What a beautiful city we live in! Just entering fall, and people are energized about their businesses. After 2 great months of sun and relaxation, all these entrepreneurs and freelancers are ready to get back into the saddle and are hungry for new clients. Most of us freelancers love to go to networking events to [...]

This is the story of how I made the incomprehensible leap from cooking to finance. The year was 1987. I’m 5 years old, sitting in the living room watching watching Pasquale’s Kitchen Express and Wok With Yan. Most boys at that age tell their parents they want to be a firefighter or an astronaut, and [...]

The proliferation of the Internet has really leveled the playing field. If it were not for the Internet, I’m not sure I would have been able to get started as a freelance writer. After all, getting a reporter or editor job with even a small-town newspaper is substantially more difficult than getting a gig writing [...]