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    I just put my house up for sale and no one I know understands why

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    Yeah I feel you. At that age I wanted to be down in the thick of it too. I had a place up on the hill in Southside about 20 years ago. (This was long enough back when Five Points was still happening and not liable to get you shot...) I get the impression that things have changed a lot since I...
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    I just put my house up for sale and no one I know understands why

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    I don't know what your situation is as far as needing to be down there in the Jones Valley, but if I were concerned about safety and rent I'd be looking down to Shelby county and skip out on downtown. Get you a place down in Columbiana or Chelsea for $200 a month. You'll save money and avoid...
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    Cal Newport podcast: Digital Minimalism

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    Solitude is a perplexing thing. The Western gestalt has a fairly skewed idea of what it means to be alone. We tend to look at being alone as a total withdrawal from others. That's an unusual thought when you compare it with how most Eastern traditions think of being a self and being with...
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    SCAM ALERT: False or Legit?

    Commitment is a big part of it. For a lot of people the objections are all coming from fear and uncertainty: "If I drop $10,000 on this course, what if I don't earn it back?" And then there's all the gears turning about paying rent, affording food, buying that new iPhone you didn't need...
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    Chasing Freedom - Creating My Own Digital Marketing Company

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    Couple things you might like related to these two books: The Secret of Selling Anything is a great complement to SPIN Selling. Browne's delivery is less technical and more geared to practical selling. The message is similar: figure out what they want, twist the knife until they see the light...
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    Is there any money to be made in web/app design?

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    The last time I checked the job listings in my city, Django skills alone were in demand with a good number of decent to good paying jobs. If you've got decent Python chops to go with it, you'll be even better off. Now you can add to that front-end design. Moving from noob to pretty-decent...
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    Becoming Selfless over Selfish

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    Head down to the South sometime, they're practically falling off the trees.
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    Building a Team is Paramount To Scale Correctly (Horror Story Coming in 3.2...)

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    She's an attractive young woman who has just gotten herself a lot of free publicity. The outrage machine will grind its teeth and make a lot of noise and the drama-obsessed rubber-neckers will move on to the next thing in 3-5 days. If it's not already forgotten. She's only out of the game if...
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    Book #4: Vote for Next Book Discussion!

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    I went for Never Split the Difference. Cialdini's book is one of those books that can be summarized in a blog post with nothing lost (and I've already read it a couple of times...) I've read Dennis in the past 12 months and, while I liked the book, I wasn't blown away enough to want to re-read...
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    Has anyone here taken a "Landmark Education" course?

    Funny timing on this bump. I'm almost done with Luke Rhinehart's The Book of est which was interesting enough that I queued up Steven Pressman's Outrageous Betrayal to get more of the back story on Erhard. If Landmark is anything like est (and est is anything like Rhinehart describes) it's an...
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    The Secret/Law Of Attraction. Anyone believe in it?

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    With things like this, I try to cut it two ways. There's the stuff which is pretty obvious goofiness. What we've got here is a clear case of taking some words from a science, which makes it respectable and authoritative in the minds of a gullible public, and using them to prop up some...
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    MJ DeMarco a Fraud? He didn't respond to my 6pm email within 2 hrs!!

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    I remember the great old days of 2005 when a poster like this could be written off as a low-effort troll. We've reached such levels of peak internet in 2019 that being an actual "average person" is indistinguishable from the uninspired trouble-maker from just a few years ago. I don't know if...
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    Best Whiskey you've ever had

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    The thing I hate about making any big-boy high-ABV beers is that they take forever to ferment and condition. I've got a tiny rig that can handle up to ~20 liters, and the one and only time I tried to brew a big imperial it took almost 6 months to get drinkable. This was after almost two months...
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    Digital Marketing Agency, the new Podcasting?

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    I won't lie, I read @Sean Marshall 's thread and got interested enough to drop a few bucks on his Udemy course to see what the buzz was about. Turns out that 20 some years of being a weekend warrior code geek left me with more than enough technical skills to do the work. On the sales side...
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    Book #4: Vote for Next Book Discussion!

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    This was just released: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525536515/?tag=tff-amazonparser-20 Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport ...which I'll be reading regardless, but it's worth a nomination, too.
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    How important is an 'about us' page with personal info for small and mid sized businesses?

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    @Jonathan Hoch 's post reminded me of this article: https://kopywritingkourse.com/how-to-write-an-about-us-page/ cc: @Neville Medhora
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    22 Pomodoros and the Power of Intrinsic Motivation

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    I've found it most valuable for going deep. As you say though the breaks have to be done right or you'll break out of the trance. I just do something like some easy stretching, walking around, make a cup of coffee, or just stare out the window and breathe. Heading to the browser or phone is a...
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    22 Pomodoros and the Power of Intrinsic Motivation

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    I wrote my doctoral thesis in six weeks doing this method. I revised the whole thing for submission in about 2 weeks doing this again. It works. Just make sure you've got something else to jump to immediately once this project is off your plate. Otherwise you'll find yourself with a ton of...
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    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

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    Which 'un? I just read an omnibus edition with the first three books -- Deep Blue Good-by, Nightmare in Pink, and A Purple Place for Dying. Damn but these are some fun books. I've got the next omnibus with 4-6 on deck.
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    Instagram Entrepreneurs Truth (MUST READ)

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    Harsh, but a lot of truth there. Thanks for sharing.

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