Shock Notes

My family moved a lot when I was growing up.  My father was always chasing jobs with higher pay, no matter where in the world that might be.  As a result, I attended seven different grade schools. My favorite class in school was always art class.  Whichever school I was in, I was always known […]

The first reaction many people have when seeing the Ling’s Cars website is, “Oh, gawd!”  Neon colors, blinking advertisements, and automatically-playing sounds that blare into your ears.  You would think that the site was created in the 90’s, but failed to keep up with modern design, but you would be wrong. Ling’s Cars got its […]

  Most journalism we see on the internet is drawn from the media of just a handful of most influential countries in the world.  Many people go to BBC News for world news, but even then the news is filtered through a Western point of view.  The major news events from minor countries are often […]

  In the summer of 2014, I tried out a vegetarian/vegan diet for six weeks.  For the first four weeks, I went vegetarian, then for the final two weeks, I tried restricting even more to a vegan diet.  These are my conclusions after that experiment. Disclaimer: In this article, I discuss my own opinions and […]

  Managing your personal finances is easy.  The hard part is maintaining your self-control, so you don’t overestimate your earnings, spend too much, or save too little. To increase the health of your finances, take a three-pronged approach: make more money cut spending save more Most people would assume that someone making $120,000 per year […]

BioTrust is a nutrition supplement company that sells high-quality products for muscle building, fat loss, and overall health.  A few years ago, I went all out with BioTrust.  I got on their mailing list.  I ordered their entire product line.  I read their e-book 53 Fat Burning Smoothies & Milkshakes.  I read their physical book Belly […]

  Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets managed.” Instead of setting the goal of “lose weight,” set goals to “track weight.”  Instead of “save money,” set goals to “track money.”  Instead of “write more,” set goals to “track how much I write.”  The idea is that if you see the numbers, you will […]

Many Internet-users today have user-generated content spread across several different social networking and review sites.  It would be helpful to find all of a user’s public content displayed on one page in one timeline. A similar concept called “nameplate sites” already exists.  However, nameplate sites are only pages with links to a user’s various internet profiles and […]

Building a team of trusted advisors isn’t something only the President does. Everybody has areas of knowledge they don’t know much about. Even for topics that you’re knowledgeable in, you don’t know everything. That’s why it’s important to get advice from others.   Warren Buffett might be the most celebrated stock picker in history. But he […]

  With the launch of Kindle in 2007, Amazon started a revolution in the publishing industry. The Kindle cut out the middle-men and allowed anyone with a computer to publish a book.   Today, there are millions of self-published books available on Kindle. The vast majority of books only sell a few copies. Most authors […]