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March 2, 2023
How to Learn Spreadsheets
This article was generated with the aid of OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool. It is meant as a placeholder and proof-of-concept for a possible future writing project. The information in this article has not been fact-checked or vetted for accuracy.
Learning how to work with spreadsheets is an essential skill for anyone who works with data or needs to perform calculations on a regular basis. Spreadsheets allow you to organize, analyze, and visualize data in a way that is easy t...
February 27, 2023
How a Handful of Habits Can Make You a Creative Genius
Can anybody consistently come up with great, creative ideas? Linus Bille, author of THE IDEATION EQUATION: How a Handful of Habits Can Make You a Creative Genius (affiliate link), certainly thinks so. In his book, Linus first surveys the psychology literature to discuss established theories on creativity. Then he presents metaphors for how the human brain comes up with ideas, before teaching his own framework, “The Ideation Equation,” which provides habits you can form to become a creative g...
February 1, 2023
Actions for Diet
This article is a chapter from my book The Life Actionbook: Tools and Actions for Personal Development. The entire book will eventually be available on this website for free in web format, but if you prefer to read it in ebook or physical formats, you can find The Life Actionbook on Amazon.com (affiliate link).
Disclaimer: I wish I could tell you that I’m a doctor, but I can’t. I’m just an inquisitive author with a background in science and a love for practical research. The content of ...
January 31, 2023
Ideas for Blog Posts
This article is a chapter from my book Blog Ideas: 131 Ideas to Kill Writer's Block, Supercharge Your Blog and Stand Out. The entire book will eventually be available on this website for free in web format, but if you prefer to read it in ebook or physical formats, you can find Blog Ideas on Amazon.com.
By now, your blog is set up. You’ve made all the most important decisions. It looks good and runs well. You have a consistent professional writing habit. Writer’s block creeps in for ma...
January 23, 2023
24 Ways to Manage Your Money
Heads up: This article was commissioned as a part of the Adam Rush Project. It was an experiment I did a few years ago to see if having books written by ghostwriters would be commercially viable. It wasn't. That said, the following article was written by someone else and not yet edited to my standards. I hope to find time to rewrite it myself in the future, but for now, read with caution.
Disclaimer: In this article, I discuss financial topics. These are my personal thoughts and opinions. I...
January 21, 2023
Mining Bitcoins
Heads up: This article was commissioned as a part of the Adam Rush Project. It was an experiment I did a few years ago to see if having books written by ghostwriters would be commercially viable. It wasn't. That said, the following article was written by someone else and not yet edited to my standards. I hope to find time to rewrite it myself in the future, but for now, read with caution.
Disclaimer: In this article, I discuss financial topics. These are my personal thoughts and opinions. I...
January 20, 2023
Sleep and Your Health
Heads up: This article was commissioned as a part of the Adam Rush Project. It was an experiment I did a few years ago to see if having books written by ghostwriters would be commercially viable. It wasn't. That said, the following article was written by someone else and not yet edited to my standards. I hope to find time to rewrite it myself in the future, but for now, read with caution.
Disclaimer: I wish I could tell you that I’m a doctor, but I can’t. I’m just an inquisitive author ...
January 18, 2023
How Add Emotion to Your Story Characters
The Emotion Thesaurus, by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi, is the ultimate writer’s reference for adding more emotion to your characters. The book starts with some guidance on how to effectively write realistic emotional responses for your characters. The rest of the book works much like a thesaurus. There are 75 emotion entries full of ideas for how your characters can express their emotions in your story. Along with the 75 emotion entries, there are also 75 “writer’s tips” that deliver...
January 5, 2023
All About Web3
Blockchain Life: Making Sense of the Metaverse, NFTs, Cryptocurrency, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Web3, by Kary Oberbrunner and Lee Richter explains in detail the differences between the three major eras of the Web, with an emphasis on the direction the upcoming Web3 technologies are moving towards. It’s an interesting history lesson on the development of the Web and what we can expect in the future.
The official website for the book is at TheBlockchainLife.io.
Here are my ...
January 4, 2023
How Mere Mortals Manage Time
Over the past century, there have been exponential advances in automation, efficiency, speed, and dissemination of information on best practices. Then why is it that people seem to struggle now, more than ever before, with time management?
In his book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, award-winning journalist Oliver Burkeman explores the failings of modern time management, as well as some mindset shifts that can help you make the best use of the four thousand weeks or so ...
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