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non-scuzziness

SELF Help: The Only Kind There Is

February 17, 2010

I get sick when I hear the phrase “Take care of yourself so that you can better help others!” It is such utter bunk and BS that my stomach turns. Excuse me while I down the ipecac. It’s not about helping or taking care of others. With the exception of your children, to whom you [...]

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Making It Look Easy

January 19, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about people who try to make it look easy. Whatever “it” is. Making difficult things look easy is a cultural obsession. The entire profession of advertising is built around it. And, depressingly, the trend continues online. There are so many info products out there promising “10 easy ways to [...]

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MacSpeech Dictate, Humanity in Product Reviews, and Doing Your Best Work

December 7, 2009

Text Summary for the Video Impaired: Last Tuesday I made a video post that promised a “slaughter fest” review of a piece of software called MacSpeech Dictate. The software is pretty bad – but I think that promising to spend 800 words telling every particular where the software fell short (there was only one redeeming [...]

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Review: IttyBiz Marketing 101

October 12, 2009

Naomi Dunford is scuzzy and disingenuous. She swears like a sailor. She gets her hand stuck in wine boxes. She has a semicolon on her back. She’s so damned real that she’s almost fake. And I’ll buy pretty much anything she tries to sell me. Ever. I’ve had about a week and a half to [...]

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Doctors vs. Lawyers. Changing Incentives. (And a survey!)

October 6, 2009

“IT Guys” suffer from an image problem. We’ve all seen the stereotype of the sleazy, ambulance-chasing lawyer who combs hospital emergency rooms looking for accident victims. Finding someone in pain, he offers them the “solution” to all of their problems in return for a hefty fee. The lawyer isn’t invested in the victim’s long-term recovery [...]

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