How To Sell A Car
Here's how you sell a car. Pictures, pictures, pictures. But first, wash it. A clean car is magically worth $200 more than a dirty one, and you have a chance to sell it to people walking past your yard while you're at it. As soon as the car is clean, you can start...
I’m secretly a race car driver
The morning I turned 16 I waited by the front door for my dad to take me to the license office. He was surprised, because I hadn't told him we were going. It never occurred to me that there could be anything in the world more important than me getting my driving...
Don Draper doesn’t carry anything
Don Draper carries a wad of cash in his pocket, and that's it. No wallet, no phone, certainly no laptop case with forty dongles in it. My shoulders are ruined. Carrying a backpack with my laptop and lunch in it for a few minutes causes me real pain. I specifically buy...
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,...
Your startup’s video should have closed captions
I can't believe how many companies make this mistake. Every video impression counts when you're building your user base, and closed captions help you reach a wider audience. There are three main segments of the market that are assisted by CC: People who can't turn the...
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 old...
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 job?" So far in my...
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 at...
How to Dynamically Add Radio Buttons
Haven't seen a tutorial for this that isn't badly spelled and hard to grok, so I'll try it. First, include the radio group widget and and declare one. You'll also need LayoutParams and RadioButton, so include those as well. [crayon-662ab4b22e42c373706594/] Inside your...