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How underdogs will get promoted this year.

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Doing your job isn’t enough.

Working harder than all of your coworkers isn’t enough.

Having a college degree certainly isn’t enough, even if it’s Read the whole post!

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Was that a Tumbleweed? 3 Reasons I’ve Been Mysteriously Quiet.

August 12, 2011

How does one go from a 5-times a week blogger for over three years to being the guy with the blog not updated in weeks? Simple: Turn his world upside down. When I was on staff with CCC, I used my internet presence to process life. I vented on the blog. I talked about the [...]

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You can’t afford to hire based on a degree.

May 23, 2011

If you are in the business of hiring people to work for you, and the first filter you have is for a college degree, you might be costing yourself money, time, and the best applicants. The tried and seemingly-true line (sold thoroughly to us–by educators) is that the single most important thing you have to [...]

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The Municipal Broadband Bill: My take.

May 20, 2011

My Governor Bev Perdue has until midnight to veto H129, a bill that some are saying “protects the monopolies of second rate corporate ISPs at the expense of fast, cheap, local broadband.” I hope she doesn’t. In the interest of full disclosure, I do work for a corporation that provides high speed internet, but I [...]

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Be Outstanding.

December 27, 2010

Ever been amazed by technology? Imagine these sentences in the context of your grandparent’s childhood: “I just facetimed with my uncle in GA and wished him a Merry Christmas.” Or “I like to play scrabble on my phone with a guy I’ve never met who lives in Seattle.” Or “So last week I tweeted about [...]

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More Gospel Lessons from Starbucks.

December 6, 2010

“The lady in the car in front of you paid for yours.” It’s my favorite thing to say at work, these days. As the newly appointed official drive-thru guy at my Starbucks, I get to become an evangelist every time she comes through my line. I take the good news that a debt has been [...]

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Evangelizing Your Neighborhood Barista: a Guide.

December 2, 2010

The other day, a guy handed me a tract through the window at Starbucks. His intro line went something like, “do you like riddles? here ya go!” and he pulled the tract from behind the sun visor on his beige sedan. After he had driven away, I pulled it out of my apron pocket, and [...]

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Do you want Education, or do you want Hype?

November 27, 2010

I just read this great piece on CNN. You should read that, and come back here for my commentary. I have previously written about my disdain for almost all of the corporate “news” outlets. And the above-linked article is further proof of my theory. The article is about economic theory from an economist. It’s not [...]

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Creatively Washing Dishes: A Guide to Enjoying Work.

November 13, 2010

I am a creative guy. My heart feels most satisfied when I am creatively expressing something. I absolutely love coming up with ways to make people smile when I’m at work. The latest is, when answering the drive-thru window at Starbucks, I’ve started saying something like “Thanks for choosing the finest Starbucks on the east [...]

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Shiny new promo material.

November 11, 2010

Yes Ben, but how much does it cost? Several folks have stopped by the portfolio page (181 unique pageviews, but who’s counting?) and now, what they have all been looking for: The price tag. Here’s a link to my absurdly low prices (compare with other web designers online!) and the services that are included in [...]

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