Category: Blog
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How to Remove a Slash from Appearing with an Apostrophe in WordPress Banner
To get rid of the slash that appears when you use the HTML Character Entity instead of directly typing an apostrophe.
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Question to Ponder
What would you do if you knew you would fail? Seth Godin on the Tim Ferriss Show
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Why I Switched to Python from Excel for Data Analysis
Excel was the first tool I learned when I started my career in investment banking and I continued to rely on it for many years after. It’s a powerful program and its ubiquity in the workplace makes it required skill to know. However, if you want to take your data analysis to the next level,…
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Book Review: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Sleeping is an interesting evolutionary trait — why would Mother Nature design a mechanism where we are completely immobile and sometimes paralyzed for 1/3 of the day? While this book doesn’t give a concrete answer to that, it does stress the importance of sleeping 8 hours every day.
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Book Review: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The #1 lesson in this book is that it’s so important for white people to stop dodging discussions about race. It’s critical that white people have more conversations about race no matter how uncomfortable it will be. As a white male, I didn’t realize how not talking about race perpetuated the status quo. Robin DiAngelo’s…
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How to Change the Font for lists for your WordPress Theme
If you’ve downloaded Easy Google Fonts because you want to change your WordPress theme fonts without getting into the code, you may have noticed that it doesn’t have an option for you to change the font for ordered and unordered lists.
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Book Review: The Four Hour Work Week
This book was entertaining, provided actionable advice, and was at times bizarre. The author, Tim Ferriss has been described as a “Lifestyle Designer” and his goal is to help you streamline your life and maximize your ability to live out your dreams before retirement. The way he accomplishes this is by having the reader identify…
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Quote I’m Thinking About
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft by Stephen King
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Book Review – The Dip
This book is a very short read and Seth makes the most of it. The topic is extremely relevant if you are in the self-improvement world. The Dip is something that every expert and leading company has survived and is the reason why most people quit soon after learning something new or starting a new…
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Book Review -Indistractable
This book kept popping up for me in my recommendations and I kept seeing it in Audible so I decided to give it a shot. The author, Nir Eyal, is a well-known author of the book “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” which is about how to make your product addictive. So, it’s a bit…