Kevin Purdy
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When It’s OK To Write For Free
8Doing freebie articles and blog posts is almost universally considered a terrible move for your career and for the entire writing trade. However, there are times when you should take off your Serious Ethics hat and try giving away your thoughts.
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Dictate Your Customer Complaints To Your Phone To Say What You Mean
You’ve already told your spouse, your friends and anyone who will listen about your bad experience with Company X, but putting it into an actual complaint letter seems much tougher. Use voice dictation tools to extract the call to action from your story.
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Why You Should Buy Your Formal Wear Used
It’s smarter to buy your tuxedoes, hats, cashmere sweaters and other more formal items second-hand whenever possible. As men’s clothing blog Put This On explains, it’s not just because it’s cheaper, but because second-hand formal wear is often better quality than new.
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Mood-Lifting Advice From The 1820s
Slightly cold bath water, business, amusing books and “Short views of human life — not further than dinner or tea”. Such is the advice Sydney Smith sent to Lady Georgiana Morpeth in 1820 about “low spirits”. Much of it makes for good personal mantras (or at least fun Facebook replies). [via Boing Boing]