“You MUST keep your résumé to 1 page…unless you’re going for an executive level position.”
It’s advice people hear so often that they don’t even question it. They work themselves ragged for days or weeks at a time, tweaking and trimming, shifting margins by a fraction of an inch, and adjusting their word choice to choose shorter words when they find that a single word has snuck onto the next line.
It’s also complete and utter [Read More…]
I’d like to start with a confession: My name isn’t really Nick Fox, it’s Deemis. That feels good to get off my chest, but more on that later because this post is about my stupid face.
…but not just my stupid face. In fact, this is about your stupid face, your mother’s stupid face, and the stupid face of that creepy guy at the local coffee shop.
You know how we all have those things about us that people notice? If you’re [Read More…]
A lot of people wonder why I eschew the title of “expert” and instead choose to use “hacker.” Is it just because it sounds more badass? Well, it does, but that’s not the reason.
To get to the reason, think about about this little scenario. For the sake of this example, let’s say you’re looking to lose weight. This can be applied to any field (Finance, employment, time management, etc) but in this case, you want to lose some weight, and [Read More…]
"Oh, yeah! Success!"
We’ve all had those thoughts, those “Why not me” thoughts, those, “If only I had come up with that idea instead of him” thoughts.
They start innocently enough, we see an interview with Mark Zuckerberg talking about how many users Facebook has or hear about Richard Branson taking Virgin across the UK in a matter of months…both before their 30th birthdays. You feel like you missed the boat, you [Read More…]
“Losers give other people what they want, winners give people what they need.”
-Me (Yeah, that’s right. I quoted myself)
Speaking
When I think of bad speeches, there are two that come to mind. The first was a standup comic asked to showcase at a convention where performers go to try to book gigs. He proceeded to spit out every airline food and recycled 80’s joke about how there are thousands of channels but nothing on. The [Read More…]
That’s right. I don’t want you succeed at all. At last I finally peel back the curtain on my real intentions. I’m an evil genius who wants nothing more than your complete and utter failure in all you do.
…or not.
What is it that so universally terrifies us of failure? So often, when someone starts working towards a new goal, you’ll hear things like, “Yeah, but that would never work, so why try,” or “Well, I don’t really have a good [Read More…]