http://www.brazencareerist.com Define Your Career. Control Your Life. Fri, 16 May 2008 18:17:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently spent two days walking around DC, Maryland, and Virginia, covering 39 miles in the name of healthy cleavage. Translation: the Avon Walk for breast cancer. I wanted to walk in memory of my grandma, in honor of survivors in my family, and in support of a friend battling ... http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/05/16/toned-calves-solid-reputation/ Raised by a lawyer dad and accountant mom, Arnold whizzed through Vanderbilt University in three years. He became an oil trader for Enron, supposedly earning $750 million for the company in 2001, when he was just 27. He went into business for himself after Enron collapsed a year later. Today ... http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/05/16/the-worlds-youngest-billionaires/ It’s a sad fact. Most freelancers and entrepreneurs have silly job titles. People have a terrible tendency to get carried away with their new-found power, and end up making fools of themselves. Make sure you’re not one of them. Let’s be honest. Creative Director sounds awesome, doesn’t ... http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/05/16/warning-if-youre-using-these-job-titles-stop-right-now/ Our culture worships planning. Everything must be planned in advance. Our days, week, years, our entire lives. We have diaries, schedules, checklists, targets, goals, aims, strategies, visions even. Career planning is the most insidious of these cults precisely because it encourages a feeling of control over your reactions to future ... http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/05/16/is-career-planning-a-waste-of-time/ The key question today isn't what's dumb on Twitter, but instead how a service with bite-size messages topping out at 140 characters can be smart, useful, maybe even necessary. Here's why I'm looking. In the last few months, the traffic on Twitter has exploded, growing far beyond its circles ... http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/05/16/why-twitter-matters/ “The Blogging Playing Field” - Photo by Fort Photo submit_url = 'http://www.jamieharrop.com/2008/05/16/blogging-for-money-displaces-your-focus/'; The best blogging advice I ever received came from, Jane May, who was once a very active force in the make money online scene of the blogosphere. In a review of my blog, Jane said: Don’t try to monetize your blog ... http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/05/16/blogging-for-money-displaces-your-focus/ Photo by Kirbmart1000 A few months ago, I met a guy named Leonard Knight who’s spent the last 20 years building a folk art masterpiece called "Salvation Mountain." Leonard lives in the back of his pickup truck and usually sleeps under the stars. Visitors bring him food, paint, and minor donations, ... http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/05/15/alternative-lifestyle-designing-the-rabbit-hole-tax-and-baselining/ In the play “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten”, based on the book by Robert Fulghum, there’s a scene where a teacher is asking a group of kids a series of questions.  When the teacher asks, “Who here can draw well?” the entire class emphatically raises ... http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/05/15/dont-dismiss-your-enthusiasm-for-what-you-think-is-lack-of-talent/ As a madly in love, happily married woman who recently (and I think successfully) hooked up two of her single friends, I have garnered priceless love data. I have researched my findings with other happily married or otherwise paired couples and I'm willing to share now that I've tested it ... http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/05/15/rare-advice-for-falling-in-love/ Image via Wikipedia Translators who buy email lists of industry contacts to send their CV to, beware: you could be making enemies of the very people you wish would hire you. As editor-in-chief of Wired, an online magazine reporting on technology trends across all spheres of society, Chris Anderson is a key ... http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/05/15/beware-the-fine-line-between-spamming-and-reaching-out/