Most job search adv ice on the internet is disappointingly obvious. I know that graduation is coming up for a lot of my friends, and I want them to have something a little better. So I’m creating my own guide. Please comment on this article with your own job-hunting tips and tricks, and I will…
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A lot of the time when we buy something, our motive is to recapture a certain feeling. An expensive dress to feel beautiful, a fancy computer to feel exciting and new, or even a snuggly comforter to feel protected and loved. Food in particular is good at invoking memories. A Frenchman once wrote a 4,211…
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“We always call the authors we turn down,” my boss Jeevan told me, “Because form letters are so soul-crushing.” He gave a self-deprecatory chuckle. “Only, I’m too cowardly to turn them down myself. So I’m making you do it.”
Because with web publishing, biographies aren’t just for celebrities anymore.
Blatant self-promotion, of course. I blame my hopelessly individualistic, navel-gazing culture. Blogging, vlogging, tweeting: the commotion never stops. Anything to prove we’re just as special as everyone else. In the famous words of DASH, from the animation movie The Incredibles, “Saying everyone is special, is just a way of saying no…
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