Month: April 2013

Getting People To Read Your Email

James Altucher wrote in an article that he has over 100,000 unread emails in his inbox. I don’t have that many, but then again, I delete half of them unread. I have a feeling this is true for most people who use email in day-to-day business. As an entrepreneur,...

Weekly Report #3

I used to write a blog called Shit Job Tales. After hopping from one low-wage, low-responsibility job to the next for several years, I thought I might as well get some value out of the experience. It certainly wasn’t getting me anywhere in life. Reading those...

The Lost Art Of Sign Painting

I had the afternoon off, so I wandered down to the bike shop and set up camp on one of the car seat couches out front. Halfway through my copy of “Carry on, Jeeves” on a sunny afternoon, I was not bored. But Ryan said, “Hey Shannon, can I give you a...

Never Lock Your Cell Phone

I was walking out of Nautical Nellie’s, a restaurant downtown, and I guess my phone fell out of my pocket. A passing pedicab driver saw it and picked it up. He saw that the first number on my contacts list was as rival pedicab company across town (where I worked...