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Success

What Does Success Mean To You?

April 7, 2009
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This post started as a comment on Matt Cheuvront’s post titled Work vs. Life: What is Your White Whale? on his blog, Life Without Pants. While we were discussing the balance of work vs. life and whether it was even possible to be completely successful at one without the sacrifice of the other, [...]

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The Secret to Twitter Fame and Success

April 1, 2009
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“So as you can see, the number of followers generated has a direct correlation to how cute you look in your profile picture.”
There has been a recent influx of articles with cool headlines like, “A guide to building your inconsequential personal brand using Twitter”. Really most of these articles are all the same and a [...]

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Timing: The Importance Of Time and Information

February 25, 2009

Imagine buying a house the day before the market went bust. Imagine being a Senior in university and having spent the last 3 years studying finance. Imagine changing jobs just to learn a week later that the company that hired you is filing bankruptcy. Imagine someone starting a family at the exact time that the [...]

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Malcolm Gladwell On The Beatles’ Success

February 10, 2009

My current daily commute read is Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success. Like many books in this genre, it is one that has a singular main point with chapters and chapters of case studies and examples. Gladwell’s main point in his latest work is that an individual’s success has as much to do with [...]

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