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just keep trying
Like the old saying goes, at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. “But for how long?” I hear the young student ask. “When …
how to create smart storytelling
The Holy Grail of marketing is convincing other people to share your stuff for you, what the professionals call “Word of Mouth”. For example: There’s …
the mystery of consciousness
When you’re making small talk with another person at a cocktail party, behind that thin veneer of superficial reality, lies the vast entirety that is …
entrepreneurship is a mindset
Traditionally, there are three ways to become an entrepreneur. The first way is to be naturally born born for it. Folk like Michael Dell, Henry …
master, I come searching for answers
It’s great to be young, it’s exciting to be a bit of a wandering hippie for a little while. Emphasis being on “a little while”. Eventually …
I choose you, I choose this
I spent the first two decades of my career scrambling around, wondering what the hell I was going to do when I finally grew …
time to be creative
There are two kinds of work: creative work and busy work. One is hard, the other is easy. One is actually valuable, one just looks …
so… who are you voting for?
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the fact that somebody wants to hold office should immediately disqualify them from being able to run for office. To put …
quality isn’t job one
“Quality is Job One” is a slogan used by Ford Motor Company back in the 1980s, once they decided that perhaps making rust buckets …
embracing work-life balance
This article from Harvard Business Review, “Managing The High Intensity Workplace” is sparking a lot of conversation internally here at Gapingvoid: The article talks about how …
it’s all about karma, baby
Will that random kid you were unkind to in the playground, back when you were seven, somehow affect the future, decades later? Will the time you …
if it’s not worth fighting for, it doesn’t exist
So what is worth fighting for? Let’s narrow it a bit: which are the parts of your job are worth fighting for? If you don’t know, you’re …
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