I take it as an insult when somebody calls me The N Word: Nice. Out of 100,000 adjectives in the English language, if the best you can come up with is nice, then I'm doing something wrong.
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* 148 * Facebook * Twitter * Buffer * Google+ * LinkedIn * Follow * Success seems to come more easily to some people. These are the same people who effortlessly wear La Perla lingerie while sprawled out on their bed of money, rolling around in the freshly-
Keep reading →Headspace. Even though it feels about as mythical as a goddamn unicorn, it's a thing. I know most of us would feel more comfortable using a keyboard full of hypodermic needles than, you know, actually relaxing, but in
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Keep reading →Right out of college, (and fresh off the farm*), I found myself smack dab in the middle of a telemarketing call center, trying to convince strangers to sign up for $60,000 educations at an online “university” they couldn’t
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