From the monthly archives: January 2008

Why do all successful people have to be assholes?

By On 01.30.2008 · 6 Comments · In Business

Note: I apologize if the word “asshole” offends you, but for the purpose of this post, I am going to have to use the word quite a bit. Earmuffs please.

I got into a little debate over at On Moneymaking tonight about whether you have to be an asshole to be successful. Jon’s [...]

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Book Review: Game Over: Press Start to Continue shows what Nintendo taught Microsoft

By On 01.28.2008 · 2 Comments · In Business

In what can only be described as the fulfillment of my winter break spiral towards greater levels of nerd-dom, I spent my free time reading Game Over: Press Start to Continue: The Maturing of Mario by David Sheff with some new chapters contributed by Andy Eddy.

Sheff and Eddy’s narrative works [...]

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Why I thought Heath Ledger wasn’t really dead: viral marketing theories and epiphanies

Why I thought Heath Ledger wasn’t really dead: viral marketing theories and epiphanies

By On 01.23.2008 · 7 Comments · In Business

When I heard the news that Heath Ledger was found dead yesterday, I couldn’t help being a little skeptical. Not to be disrespectful of the dead, but I thought in the first minutes of the reports that it might all be a clever ruse by a very risky marketing team.

Let me take you [...]

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I am a passionate worker, not a workaholic

By On 01.16.2008 · Leave a Comment · In Business, Working Class

I work two jobs. My first job is a day job that pays me enough to be full-time where I get to practice public relations, and my second job is blogging on my three current sites, ugachaka.net, Fantasy Football Fools and here at wannabeMogul.com, which doesn’t exactly pay me full-time but one [...]

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