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6 Healthy Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Toxic

About six months ago, I wrote a post titled 6 Toxic Habits that Most People Think Are Normal. It became very successful. A lot of people commented and a lot of people shared and big grown-up websites who get paid to post smart grown-up things asked me if they could copy/paste it, ostensibly to make a bunch of advertising money off people acting like assholes in their comment sections. I said, sure, why not?

(I know, sell out.)

But the post also helped a lot of people. Since writing it, it’s gen...

Why I Chose Who I Chose

This is Part Two of the explanation of my job hiring process. Part One covered the bare minimum requirements and some advice on how people could have improved their applications. Part One was intended not only as feedback for my job application process, but as advice for any job application process. This post is specifically about my selection process.

These two posts were originally written as one gigantic article. But I split them in half and I realize now that was probably a mistake. Many p...

683 Ways to Fail to Get a Job Offer

Two weeks ago I put up a job posting to hire for two positions, a content curator and a digital artist. Both positions were full-time, both offered the chance to work remotely and essentially live anywhere, and both provided an opportunity for daily creative work on a small web business that continues to grow at a breakneck rate. It was bound to be competitive.

I received 707 applications. Only 24 were invited back to participate in a second round.

Reading over job applications 13 hours a day f...