A life takeaway from online poker tournaments On any given day, you may not be leading the pack. You may be in the middle, or struggling to stay with it. How you got there isn’t important. Winning or losing, though, is up to you. Not settling for scraps I play microstakes sit-and-go poker tournaments. “Jumpstart” … Read more
It’s the way things usually get better My govvie day job is as a knowledge worker. Desk work, computers, and meetings for the most part. We manage tasking for our project in Jira, a popular tool by Atlassian. A colleague wanted some particular information to show up in a detail view. I figured out how … Read more
And how to get paid along the way I wrote a book, once. It was my Ph.D. thesis, and it was over twenty years ago. I’m glad to have gone through that … once. Once was, and is, plenty. Godin, Pressfield, and Allen For my next book, I’ll do what Seth Godin, Steven Pressfield, and … Read more
I prepare music groups with two simple rules. What can you do with yours? As a church music director, I rehearse teams for Sunday morning, including groups with developing musicians. Two simple rules help the team get through the songs. Performing in a group is a separate skill from performing alone. The primary skill I … Read more
My bride of twenty-two years has written three books. Each one is longer than the last. They’re works of historical fantasy set in 19th-century America. She had decent sales of the first one on Amazon, but that was a number of years ago. The space has gotten more crowded. Sales had gotten so infrequent that … Read more
When I started my efforts to make money online in the early 2000s, I promoted various multi-level marketing opportunities. Traffic exchanges were a common tool. Using a traffic exchange was a bit like watching TV with someone else changing the channel every twenty seconds. A bunch of network marketers, forcing their sites on other network … Read more