Blog Category: Entrepreneurship

How To Create Your Fantasy Life

Imagine if you could write for the top sitcom in America, then write movies in Hollywood, and actually make a ton of money doing it. That sounds like fun, right? Sounds like…

Imagine if you could write for the top sitcom in America, then write movies in Hollywood, and actually make a ton of money doing it. That sounds like fun, right? Sounds like you would kill to have a dream job like that. Only Matt Berry did the exact opposite of that. He wrote 12 episodes […]

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HOW TO QUIT YOUR JOB

  I wanted to quit my job. I hated my boss. He always yelled at me. I hated my co-workers. They always yelled at me. I was addicted to playing chess online.…

  I wanted to quit my job. I hated my boss. He always yelled at me. I hated my co-workers. They always yelled at me. I was addicted to playing chess online. One time my girlfriend called at 6pm and said, “don’t forget, we have guests coming over for dinner in a half hour.” I […]

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Why Do People Hate Their Jobs?

I limped out of the meeting and said, “excuse me”, and took the elevator down 67 stories, went to Grand Central, limped home, and never went back to work at that job.…

I limped out of the meeting and said, “excuse me”, and took the elevator down 67 stories, went to Grand Central, limped home, and never went back to work at that job. I never returned the constant phone calls and emails over the next month. “James, where did you go?” For all I know my […]

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Mistakes Were Made

When I was 18 I went to college and went about $50,000 in debt. Why would an 18 year old do that to themselves? I majored in computer science. 8 years later…

When I was 18 I went to college and went about $50,000 in debt. Why would an 18 year old do that to themselves? I majored in computer science. 8 years later when I got a real job they made me take remedial programming classes after I crashed everyone’s email and trashed the network. When […]

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How to Be a YouTube Star and Beat Justin Timberlake in the Charts

I wish I had been smarter when I was 23 years old.  I did everything wrong:  I felt like I needed a college degree. I felt like I needed a graduate degree…

I wish I had been smarter when I was 23 years old.  I did everything wrong:  I felt like I needed a college degree. I felt like I needed a graduate degree (I was thrown out of graduate school ultimately), I felt like I needed a publishing company to “choose me” to be a writer. […]

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How to Treat Your Employees (or anybody else for that matter)

Wade had sex with Karen and now I had to fire him. She was our top designer. And he was also starting to make fun of one of my partners behind his…

Wade had sex with Karen and now I had to fire him. She was our top designer. And he was also starting to make fun of one of my partners behind his back. He’d do that roll-the-eyes thing whenever my partner spoke. Wade had caught the disease. The disease is very contagious and it spreads […]

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I Want My Kids to Be Drug Addicts

Lynn, our child’s babysitter, was a drug addict and her doctor told her that her brain scan was the same as that of an 80 year old man’s who had multiple strokes.…

Lynn, our child’s babysitter, was a drug addict and her doctor told her that her brain scan was the same as that of an 80 year old man’s who had multiple strokes. Lynn was afraid to tell us she needed to take a few days off from watching Josie so she could go on Oprah […]

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