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RPGs Aren’t Just for Kids Anymore! Young Entrepreneur Jun Loayza Reveals the Interactive Web Game That Will Rock Your Career!

Wednesday, August 27, 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. Jun Loayza is a young CMO [...]

Tweet and Grow Rich: A Beginner’s Guide Plus 5 Tips to Rock Your Business With Twitter

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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For newbies out there who don’t quite know how to best put Twitter to use, and for those of you who aren’t using it yet but are wondering if the new web service is worth your time: This Guide is for You. What is Twitter? Twitter is a new social network/instant messaging mashup that’s being referred to [...]

Thoughts on Working From Home and Starting Out as a Freelance Web Worker

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

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As a follow-up to my post the other day, How to Make Friends with Career Columnists and Influence Mainstream News Organizations, I’d like to share some more of the insights from my conversation with ABCnews.com columnist Michelle Goodman. She asked a number of really great questions, and naturally only a very small part of our [...]

The 10 Best Books For WordPress Bloggers

Saturday, June 28, 2008

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I’ve had a few great guidebooks on my shelf ever since I started fiddling around with blog templates years ago, but when Michelle Goodman recently asked me a few questions for ABCnews.com, it brought my attention to the fact that many of the resources I recommend are aimed at readers with more XHTML, CSS, and [...]

Are You a Rebel Programmer Without a Cause? Help Transform Education

Sunday, June 15, 2008

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Steli Efti, a friend of Thrilling Heroics and creative entrepreneur behind Supercool School, is looking for a rockstar coder for a summer internship. Supercool School is a revolutionary concept in education, offering a free online learning marketplace that enables users to teach and study from each other over the web using audio-video chat. Steli and his [...]

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 [...]

A Little Bit About My Business Blog Consulting & WordPress Services

Monday, April 7, 2008

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I build clean, simple blogs for corporate and individual clients who need to broadcast their brand. I don’t just build you a website though, I hold your hand through the entire process and help you achieve success creating a dynamic presence for your business online! If you’ve got an important message to communicate to potential clients [...]

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 [...]

It’s Time for Some Thrilling Heroics: Commit to Pursuing Your Wildest Dreams with Me in 2008!

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

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Over at CodyMcKibben.com in November, I wrote about my experiments with freelancing, and about my desire to shift my career so that my work is not just means to pay the bills, but more of a way to express my passions and continue to increase my personal growth. See the post here. In response [...]

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 [...]

How To Use Your Peers For Fun And Profit!

Saturday, November 3, 2007

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You’re a high achiever! You’re motivated to succeed in your education and your career. But do you know the price of success? Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s most famous architect, captured it well when he said, “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see [...]