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10 Reasons Why Freelancing is the Best Job Security
The idea that any real job security exists is a complete illusion. Ask any former GM employee or newspaper journalist what they think about the concept.
10 Reasons Why Freelancing is the Best Job Security – Freelance Switch
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )5 Rules for Better Web Writing
Text is a very important part of user experience on the web, so it needs and deserves the same sort of design consideration. You must make your text usable in the same manner that you do the rest of your website or social media campaign materials. In short: text is user interface. Here are [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Happy Birthday Internet!
September 2, 1969: Forty years ago today, in Leonard Kleinrock’s UCLA lab, a group of computer scientists managed to pass bits of data from one computer to another over some some gray cable. In doing so, they created the first node of what we now call (long dramatic pause)… the Internet.
Happy 40th birthday, Internet -Boing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )12 Tricks for Optimizing Your Freelance Career
12 Tricks for Optimizing Your Freelance Career – Freelance Switch
These 12 tricks may not seem to have much to do with each other, but they all lead to the fruition of one goal: optimizing your workflow so you can focus on why you became a freelancer, instead of letting freelancing take over you.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Zen Day
Well, today’s Twitter and Facebook messages will be delivered verbally, and only to my cat, it seems. Twitter is offline, and Facebook has so far only allowed me to logon once, and then gave me shit about it the entire very short time I was on. Must be some kind of serious glitch in the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Guide to Freelancing
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Guide to Freelancing – Freelance Switch
You might be scratching your head at the correlation between freelancing and a (now defunct) supernatural based TV show, but I believe Buffy the Vampire Slayer can teach us a thing or two about the business of freelancing. Here are ten lessons on how to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How Much Does it Cost When You Pay Attention?
How Much Does it Cost When You Pay Attention?
Should you not consider attention as an asset equally valuable, if not more so, than any financial asset that you own? After all, a fragmented attention is a fragmented person; and a fragmented person’s success will be limited in every area of life – including personal finance.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What Google Chrome OS Means for Computing
What Google Chrome OS Means for Computing
Google is moving everything online, and I really believe this is the future of computing. The desktop model of computing — the Microsoft era — is coming to an end. It’ll take a few years, but it will happen.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire
America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire
Paid bloggers fit just about every definition of a microtrend: Their ranks have grown dramatically over the years, blogging is an important social and cultural movement that people care passionately about, and the number of people doing it for at least some income is approaching 1% of American adults.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )279 Days to Overnight Success
279 Days to Overnight Success
An Unconventional Journey to Full-time Writing
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