Doomsday Cometh

Posted in June 16th, 2009

Ed. Note: Never met Paul Epps but his blog makes me laugh out loud. If you grew up in a small town like I did, you have heard your own versions of the doomsday scenario. And, by the way, Paul’s writing skill is unmatched.
by Paul Epps, in his blog, found here.

Doomsday Cometh
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Paul Epps: Interviewing Techniques

Posted in January 11th, 2009

by wwds in Work-related

Ed. Note: Most of us who write about the job search, resumes and interviews often make the mistake of being condescending, as in “Sammy, you dummy, here is how you should do your resume.” Other times, we write stuff that is equivalent to “and the world is round.” When we do succeed, it’s [...]

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Reviews of DIG YOUR JOB: On Playboy.com, And More.

Posted in December 15th, 2008

by wwds in Culture, Work-related

The first review of Dig Your Job is up now at Playboy.com. Rumor is that National Geographic is next. Kidding.
But seriously, the most recent three book reviews at this site were Snowball, Alice Schroeder’s brilliant biography of Warren Buffet, Andrew Zuckerman’s classy portrait book Wisdom (with Clint Eastwood on the cover), and hilarious [...]

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HEY!!! I Made Me Some Art!!

Posted in June 20th, 2008

by wwds in Work-related

A word or tag cloud is a Web 2.0 thing you see on a lot of blogs, even websites. Basically, it graphically presents the words in a document by relevance, alphabetical order, number of times the word was used, etc. You can read about them here.
A wordle is a word game. Jonathan [...]

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Vision Statement

"I am having fun here, sharing stories of what I have learned after some 25 years of doing startups, with maybe some observations about the workplace, culture and other things that interest or amuse me,...and hopefully, you."

G.L. Hoffman