Check out the view from my new office: Awesome. Now I’ll get even less work done. The water’s a little chilly though: -Nick
I was looking forward to Never Get a Real Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business, and Not Go Broke, but it was kind of meh for me. First time author Scott Gerber goes out of his way NOT to sugarcoat the difficulties of entrepreneurship, but it makes for an strange angle when [...]
I was working on a project that I was NOT looking forward to. You know the kind: hours of tedious mind-numbing work with no foreseeable shortcuts or efficiencies or automation. About Mechanical Turk Just when I was about to start I remembered hearing about a service from Amazon I’d been wanting to try. Amazon Mechanical [...]
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It’s hard to believe it’s been 3 years since I quit my job. In that time, I’ve a lot of fun and a lot of stress. There have been times when I’ve made a lot of money and times when lost a lot of money. I’ve made some smart moves and some big mistakes. But [...]
I found out last week I was subject to local business license taxes. Talk about an unpleasant surprise! Having filed with the IRS and the state, and not having any storefront or commercial office space, I thought I had fulfilled all my obligations. I had not. Because my laptop operates within city limits, even without [...]
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Last week, I wrote about quitting Facebook for a week. I was interested in seeing if it would make me any more productive or feel disconnected from friends. There were some close calls, but I successfully resisted the urge to login. Why can’t have the same willpower when it comes to cake? It actually got [...]
