Blog Category: Writing

Ask James: Youth, How To Get Smarter, Lady Gaga, Paul Krugman, and Who Would I Take a Bullet For

HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE STRESS OF GETTING OLDER? Kevin Koskella ‏@kevinkoskella: James, how do you deal with the stress of getting older and the feeling that the years are flying…

HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE STRESS OF GETTING OLDER? Kevin Koskella ‏@kevinkoskella: James, how do you deal with the stress of getting older and the feeling that the years are flying by? ANSWER: Aging, decay, death, is a horrible part of life. And it happens to every atom, cell, molecule, animal, human. But it’s […]

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Self-Publishing Your Own Book is the New Business Card

If you’ve just given someone your business card then you failed. If you have a business card you might be about to fail. Nobody cares what’s on it. I throw out all…

If you’ve just given someone your business card then you failed. If you have a business card you might be about to fail. Nobody cares what’s on it. I throw out all business cards. I’ve written before about self-publishing but more than the “why” and “how” (although I add more info about this below than […]

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Weekend Notes: Claudia, Porn, TheBrowser, and Failing

  The Foreward to Claudia’s Book I wrote the forward to Claudia’s new book: Foreward, by Me Before I even met Claudia (on our first date) I knew that she was into…

  The Foreward to Claudia’s Book I wrote the forward to Claudia’s new book: Foreward, by Me Before I even met Claudia (on our first date) I knew that she was into yoga and that yoga was her life. For me, this was sexy. In my feeble understanding of what “yoga” meant I knew that […]

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Why and How I Self-Published a Book

I just self-published a book. “How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive”.  I published it in paperback form, kindle, and free PDF (see directions below to get free PDF). The entire process…

I just self-published a book. “How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive”.  I published it in paperback form, kindle, and free PDF (see directions below to get free PDF). The entire process took me three weeks. Using an established publisher would’ve taken over a year. [Important note:Since this post was written I have also self-published […]

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33 Unusual Tips to Being a Better Writer

Back in college, Sanket and I would hang out in bars and try to talk to women but I was horrible at it. Nobody would talk to me for more than thirty…

Back in college, Sanket and I would hang out in bars and try to talk to women but I was horrible at it. Nobody would talk to me for more than thirty seconds and every woman would laugh at all his jokes for what seemed like hours. Even decades later I think they are still […]

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Articles I'm tired of writing year after year

Note to reader: Anything published in “February, 2010” on this blog was really published NOW but I didn’t feel like putting it in the front of my blog. If someone knows a…

Note to reader: Anything published in “February, 2010” on this blog was really published NOW but I didn’t feel like putting it in the front of my blog. If someone knows a better way of doing this, please tell me. I’ve been writing hundreds of articles about stocks every year for the past eight years. […]

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