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CIG 009: Building A Diverse Skillset With Caleb Wojcik

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Podcast

CIG Podcast 009:

Building a Diverse Skillset

With Caleb Wojcik

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Caleb Wojcik

A couple years ago, I got involved with this thing called The Million Dollar Project.

Started by Corbett Barr (one of my personal heroes), the project was an attempt to help starting bloggers post their progress, keep each other accountable, and collectively make one million dollars through online entrepreneurship.

Now, not to toot my own horn or anything, but soon after signing up, I was able to drive College Info Geek to the top of the leaderboard. As of this writing, it’s still holding one of the top three spots. (Since it’s based on traffic stats, I guess I have you guys to thank for that!)

Anyway, there was this other blog that was always just about neck-and-neck with mine on the leaderboard. That blog is Expert Enough, and it’s actually a side project ran by Corbett himself.

When I started reading it, however, I noticed he wasn’t the only one managing the blog. There was this other dude named Caleb Wojcik (rhymes with logic). Read More →

My Quest To Build An iPhone App (Or, How To Get Out Of A Required Class)

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My Quest To Build An iPhone App (Or, How To Get Out Of A Required Class)

The red and white-dominated screen stared right back at me, daring me to second-guess its sobering proclamation. 2,073,600 pixels all banded together to thrust a singular message down my optic nerves and right into my occipital lobe:

“A night class. A. Night. Class.”

That was my option? My only option? After almost four years of careful planning, multiple trips to the advisor’s office, meticulous scrutinization of the course catalog and major requirements, and no small amount of Excel gymnastics – this is what it had come to?

It seemed so. To complete my MIS major, the project I had dedicated almost 1/5th of my life to, I would have to take a night class. No other option presented itself on the course scheduler.

In a dance of alignment that merited astrological likening, the school, professors, schedules, FORTRAN-based computer systems, and – not least – the very quarks in my little corner of the universe had all colluded to force me into this decidedly disagreeable class arrangement.

This could not be allowed. Something had to be done. And so a plan was hatched. Read More →

CIG 008: Hustling, Connecting, and Winning with Gary Vaynerchuk

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CIG Podcast 008:

Hustling, Connecting, and Winning

With Gary Vaynerchuk

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Ever since I started blogging and doing things of an entrepreneurial nature, Gary Vaynerchuk has been a source of inspiration for me. His talks and tweets have motivated me to hustle - to work insanely hard to reach my goals – and to constantly build my brand and connect with others.

Gary is the founder of Vaynermedia, a company that does brand consulting for Fortune 500 giants like PepsiCo and Campbell’s.

He is also the author of three books - Crush It: Why NOW is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion (2009), The Thank-You Economy (2011), and the upcoming Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy, Social World, which drops in November of this year. Read More →

Greatest Professor Of All Time: Richard Feynman

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Greatest Professor Of All Time: Richard Feynman

I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there. 

This quote marks the start of James Gleick’s Genius, a 438-page biography and tribute to one of humanity’s greatest scientists – Richard Feynman.

Richard Feynman is a legend.

Ranked as one of the 10 greatest physicists of all time, Feynman contributed a staggering amount to our understanding of the universe.

Feynman taught himself trigonometry, analytic geometry, calculus, and a host of other advanced math topics at the age of 15. After high school, he attended MIT and afterward become the first person in history to attain a perfect score on the math and physics portions of the Princeton entrence exam.

In the 1940′s, he joined the Manhattan project at Los Alamos and helped the Allies to develop the atomic bomb before Nazi Germany could do it. Read More →

Jimmy Wales Gives One Huge, Important Piece Of Advice To Us Kids

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Jimmy Wales Gives One Huge, Important Piece Of Advice To Us Kids

Most of you probably know Jimmy Wales as the founder of Wikipedia, which is quite possibly the single greatest repository of human knowledge ever created.

All of us who have had to write research papers in the past probably have Jimmy (along with the army of contributors to Wikipedia) to thank for getting us started. Even though our teachers always told us not to use Wikipedia, we did anyway.

What you might not know is that Wales is also an adviser for – and investor in – another great website: the question/answer site Quora.

Quora, along with other sites like the Stack Exchange network, has been a big help to me in the past. Before question/answer sites like these, I’d often have to go digging through forums when I wanted an answer to a question. For that reason, I’m a big fan of Quora, and I used to be a frequent contributor as well.

Anyway, I recently stumbled across this question on Quora: What advice would Jimmy Wales give to the next generation?

I absolutely loved Jimmy’s answer to this question. Read More →

CIG 007: Earning Passive Income The Smart Way With Pat Flynn

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CIG Podcast 007:

Earning Passive Income the Smart Way

With Pat Flynn

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Pat Flynn

I have a really good friend who always says, “You can trade hours for dollars, or you can trade ideas for millions.”

While he certainly chose the latter option, it seems that most people choose the former. But I’d like to propose a third option:

You can build systems to make money without trading hours. In other words, you can build passive income sources.

The idea behind passive income is pretty simple. You build a system that requires no work from you after you set it up. That system allows you to make money – even when you’re not actively working on it.

With a passive income system, you can make money while you’re sleeping, while you’re driving, and while you’re playing I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!!1 Read More →

3 Works Of Fan Fiction That Are Actually Worth Reading

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3 Works Of Fan Fiction That Are Actually Worth Reading

I have a horrible secret to tell you guys. I was going to write some clever introduction that would possibly lessen your inevitable horror-driven recoil, and possibly even lessen the chance that you’ll hate me forever, but that seems unlikely to work. So I’m just going to divulge it now.

I read fan fiction.

Alright. Secret’s out…. huh. I seem to have the same amount of Facebook friends. Maybe this wasn’t the worst idea ever after all…

Fan fiction gets a pretty bad rap, and honestly, it’s quite deserved. Most fanfic these days is nothing more than the wishful writings of teenage girls who have nothing better to do than “ship” their favorite characters together. Anyone up for 200,000 words on Katara and Zuko’s wedding and subsequent sexual exploits? Shoot me now.

What little fanfic that isn’t unrealistic shipping attempts is either poorly written, poorly edited, or both. It’s all worthless trash, and any time spent reading it is a disservice to real authors who actually take the time to build their own universes.

…or is it? Read More →

How I Paid Off $14,431 In Student Loans In 6 Months – BEFORE Graduating

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How I Paid Off $14,431 In Student Loans In 6 Months – BEFORE Graduating

When I was a junior during the spring of 2012, I added a giant, audacious, redonkulous goal to my Impossible List: I wanted to pay off all of my student debt - nearly $15,000 - before graduating.

In October of 2012, I made my first payment, kicking off my debt-obliteration journey.

And on March 13, 2013 – just six months after I started – my final payment to Sallie Mae cleared. I’m now completely debt-free, and I’m still in college.

In this post, I’m going to tell you my story, including exactly how I paid off my debt. Afterward, I’ll provide some additional strategies you can use to minimize your own debt and start paying it off today. Read More →

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