OK, so I start out with supermassive corporation on a contracting basis on Monday. Lots of dire warnings about too much to do and late nights and whatnot are flung against the wall and left to droop. By Thursday I’m spending hours reading WSJ.com and money.cnn.com - although MSN Money is inexplicably blocked […]
“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used” -Hunter S. Thompson
You always have to wonder about the way the world works when it has one of those random burps of synchronicity. My problogging days are numbered now. A Fortune-single-digits company hurled out a six month consulting contract; a neighbor put […]
About a month ago, before I started problogging, I was walking in midtown Manhattan when I saw a strange sight: a young woman walking down the street singing at the top of her lungs. She was not particularly striking, but she looked about the same as most of the current pop stars if […]
The following is a guest post by Jonathan of Master Your Card blog; (RSS feed). This post is a little bit different from many of the posts I have on brip blap, but I thought it was an interesting concept worth talking about - attempts by the banking industry to start pushing consumer debt […]
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Just in case anyone has noticed that I have been somewhat quiet in regards to comments and emails, I beg your forgiveness and I hope to catch up soon. Something I never could have predicted - out of all of the things I was nervous about - happened over the last few […]
Do you ever think what the world would be like without monkeys? Probably not. Do we need monkeys? We don’t eat them, or use them to plow our fields. They don’t spend money so they don’t help the economy, and the outside possibility always exists that they will develop intelligence and turn all of us […]
Is gold actually worth something? I know that it’s over $1000 per ounce and it’s a hot new speculative item. But in the true sense of “worth,” does gold actually have any worth?
Gold has been used since earliest human history as a form of currency. Gold’s recognition as a currency predates written […]
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This is a continuation of my series on Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich that began with this post.
The Third Cause of Failure: Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity
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I was a high school athlete. I was a varsity tennis player, and I had my moments; I was a […]
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Consider all of the responsibilities in your life. How easy would it be to leave them?
This is a continuation of my previous post. In the previous post I talked about what I thought our “life” responsibilities were. In this part I’m looking at whether you could just quit them […]
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