What is normal? Normalcy is a doubly layered idea. There is the normal we as individual’s experience and the normal that the society we live in considers as normal. This makes normalcy a very fluid opinion. Normal technically doesn’t exist because it is essentially the average of our experiences. Sometimes the average is not actually […]
Read more "The Chains of Normalcy"I’ve been neglecting this blog a lot lately from the usual suspects of being busy, lazy, or just forgetting what I wanted to talk about. so we’re going to get a two for one special this Management Monday. Our primary topic will be about knowing your contracts and how to navigate negotiations while the second […]
Read more "Contracts and Smooth Operation"We live in a plastic world where everything needs to be questioned and mistrusted. However we’re told day in and day out to trust what we’re told and “Don’t you dare question or you’re a crazy person.” I’ve always been a rather skeptical individual and I believe it’s given me a great opportunity to figure […]
Read more "Childish Mimicry: The Cost of Facades"As things get busier and I find less motivation to write I keep coming across old and new ideas for posts. So today we’re going to be looking at product management, one of the newer ideas. When we want to make a product we want it to have staying power. There’s a reason people collect […]
Read more "Product Management: Timeless Design."Any freelancer has encountered someone that wanted more work for less money. If you’re an established freelancer, especially a writer, you’ve had the handful of customers who want to you to charge what I call slave labor rates. These are the rates that some content farms or other locations can afford to pay because things […]
Read more "The “Go Away” Price"We encounter problems on a daily basis. But most of the time we know how to handle them to a point where we don’t think of them as problems anymore. Because of this we think we know how to handle certain situations and resolve problems easily in any situation. However we sometimes think we know […]
Read more "Self-Management: Hardware vs Software"Consistency is one of the things business owners, freelancers, and people in and out work strive for. It builds trust, confidence, and success. Some people are consistently bad at something. Others consistently good at something. But what is worse than either of these things is inconsistency. Inconsistency will damage anything you’re trying to do. Your […]
Read more "Good or Bad, Consistency Matters"Today we’re going to be starting a series on the concept of our roles in life. And we’re going to be using three different systems as examples for our various roles. Those systems being Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, Rainbow 6 Siege, and Dungeons & Dragons. We generally think of our calling in life as being […]
Read more "Personal Management: Know Your Role 1."So today we’re going to be talking about an important aspect of running a business of any size. That aspect is the division of labor. We’re going to be using an unnamed associate of mine as an example to illustrate a few points. Every business is about making money while providing a good or service […]
Read more "The Cost of Help: Division of Labor"Today we’re going to be talking about something that affects storytelling, business, and our personal lives. That topic is motivation, and we will be looking at one of my regular Dungeons & Dragons games to illustrate the importance of motivation. I’ve been running a campaign for some of my friends for over a year now. […]
Read more "Motivation: A Rabbit To Chase"
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