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Book Review: The Art of Non-Conformity

The Art of Non-Conformity

We grew up in a world of expectations:  Eat your vegetables, don’t poop on the carpet, do your homework.  It continues right up to “Go to college”, “Get married”, “Having a dozen kids”.  Are those the expectations you want to use to guide your life?

Chris Guillebeau, author of The Art of Non-Conformity [...]

Bonding Relationships

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People can’t be happy in a vacuum. We are social creatures. Even the most anti-social among us needs some human contact. How can you make that contact happen in a meaningful way? How can you connect with other people beyond some superficial meaningless chatter?

According to Keith Ferrazzi in his book, Who’s got your back, [...]

ING Direct - 2 Day Sale

Today and tomorrow, ING Direct is having a “Financial Independence Days Sale”.

It’s a good sale. If you open a checking account or Sharebuilder account and you’ll get $76. Apply for a mortgage and you’ll get $776 off of the closing costs.

I have accounts at 4 different banks. Two of those were opened for specific debt-reduction purposes. [...]

Book Review: Delivering Happiness

In April, I was given an advanced reader copy of Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh on the condition that I give it an honest review. Delivering Happiness is being released today and here is my review.

Tony Hsieh was one of the founders of LinkExchange, which sold to Microsoft for $256 million in 1999. Shortly thereafter, he [...]