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What I Hope to Learn in Thailand (5 Lessons for Any Traveler in Southeast Asia)

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Welcome! Thrilling Heroics is a site for young professionals and college students who want to pursue an unorthodox, exciting lifestyle & career. If you like what you read here, subscribe for free and get tips on personal development, entrepreneurship, branding & lifestyle design delivered to your email inbox or RSS reader. I’m about 5 weeks late in [...]

Tune In for a Free Social Media & Internet Strategy Conference This Wednesday!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

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Two weeks ago I told you that you can’t ignore social media if you’re gonna succeed in business these days. Well this Wednesday there is a great opportunity for many of you small business owners and entrepreneurs I know. If you’re interested in internet marketing strategy, building a web presence, gaining visibility through the search [...]

Tim Ferriss is Turning Me Into a Spammer! (OR: Why AMEX Cardholders Should Sacrifice 5 Minutes of Your Time Today for 100 Thousand American Schoolkids)

Monday, October 13, 2008

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For American Express cardholders, a simple vote today can give 100,000 students $1.5 million for education. No joke and no exaggeration. Take a second and earn some karma!

Announcing an Awesome New Community Search Tool for the Blogosphere!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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Ever since I discovered Google Custom Search, I’ve been using it to pinpoint the exact kind of awesome articles, tips and tricks I’m looking for much quicker, and to increase my efficiency and decrease the time it takes me to find answers or write up blog posts. Personally, I’m a big fan of productivity lists, how-to’s, [...]

If You Value The Privacy Guaranteed to You by the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, Please Take Action NOW!

Monday, July 7, 2008

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Author Tim Ferriss has released an important message that he says is sure to be controversial and somewhat divisive, but it may also be the most important 20 minute video clip any U.S. citizen will watch in our lifetime. I will copy much of Ferriss’ important message below. Normally I wouldn’t duplicate someone else’s content to [...]

Filtering Through the Static: My Media Consumption Habits

Friday, May 23, 2008

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I’ve put together a primer on my media and entertainment consumption as part of the Media Diet internet meme. It’s a big post, but I highly recommend each and every one of the useful links contained here, and if you take just five minutes to read through this, I’ve included a few little gems on [...]

Slow the Onslaught and Eliminate the Vast Hordes of Emails in Your Inbox!

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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Are you sitting in front of your screen reading this when you should be clearing out the hundreds of emails that have accumulated in your inbox? Perhaps you’re like me, a web geek–your email’s out there all over the net, so you have emails coming in from all corners of the world! Or maybe your [...]

Perform a 2007 Year-End Personal Development Review

Friday, December 28, 2007

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The advent of a new year is a great time to reflect on all that you’ve done over the past 12 months and take what you’ve learned, and build a roadmap for the coming year and beyond. Lea Woodward at Freelance Switch wrote a fantastic article to help freelancers apply what you learned in 2007 [...]

Experimenting with Career Options

Monday, November 5, 2007

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It’s been a while since I really wrote regularly on either of my blogs. Somewhat unfortunately, I’ve been tied up with work. In the last several weeks, I’ve experimented with a few different things. I left my full-time employment at Sacramento State University almost two months ago, after which I took a short break while my [...]

Everything’s on Delay…I Broke My Hand

Monday, September 10, 2007

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For those of you who haven’t heard yet, I broke a metacarpal on my right hand over the Labor Day Weekend, so I’ve been having a tough time keeping up with the blogs, with my freelance coding, and my job search. Since the doc put me in a half cast, I only have about one [...]