For a few days, my offline Gmail was refusing to synch up with the server. Every time I would try, I would instantly get an ! in the synch status and it would say “Synchronization has stopped unexpectedly”. Well, yeah. I had figured that part out.
I’m sure there are lots of reasons for this, but [...]

Even if you don’t achieve huge success, conducting interviews and listening more carefully to the way you and others speak will be enlightening. I’m just getting started on interviews, but already I feel it’s changing the way I speak or at least making me aware of some annoying habits in my speech.

ChaCha answers questions on anything and everything. Even annual bowling deaths. Sometimes they don’t check their sources so well though. I sure wouldn’t take health advice off ChaCha!

How do you promote your book with Twitter? It’s not necessarily obvious, especially for those of us who are writers and scholars first and foremost. But publishers aren’t doing much for new authors anymore, so you have to do it yourself.

Until recently, in Twitter you had to burn a lot of characters retweeting people. Twitter fixed that, but also destroyed a lot of the social proof one got from a retweet.

Lately I keep coming across Goal Merchants, people from the Tony Robbins set who imbue goal-setting with various magical powers. They make what I think are outlandish claims for the power of goal setting. Many still love to cite the study of Princeton grads. According to the tale, some years ago, a class of Princeton [...]

At a certain point this year I found myself frustrated and feeling like I wasn’t getting anywhere on several different projects, while at the same time feeling like I was working too much and not having enough fun. I needed motivation, and I needed priorities. I came up with something that helps me with both [...]

You have a great idea for a website, but you’re stuck making the first step. Here’s a super quick way to get up and running.

I wanted to do some interviews with people at a distance but was struggling with a lot of technical issues — bad audio and video quality, cumbersome and unreliable recording process. I asked Andrew Warner, who does great interviews on Mixergy, if he would help me out. Despite a super busy schedule, he consented to talk to me and just cut through so many of the problems I had. Here’s some of the advice he gave me.

So do testimonials help with credibility? Not this one! I’m sure that’s a real quote from a real family, right?