#How long Charles contract is will tell us so much I am losing my mind over here

[charles-leclerc-official]

Oh to be a fly on the wall of the Ferrari offices during contract negotiations

[famous-aces]

Marilyn Monroe

Who: Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) 

What: Actress, Model, and Singer

Where: American-Jewish (active largely in US)

When: June 1, 1926 - August 4, 1962

(Image Description: a photo of Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon from 1957. It is a black and white image showing Monroe on a sparkly dress from the waist up. It almost feels weird to describe her, her face is so famous. She is a white pale woman with an oval face and heavily lidded eyes with long lashes. She has full lips with a beauty mark beside them. She is wearing makeup and has her trademark short, curly, blonde hair. She has her arms hanging limply at her side. Instead of posing sexily she looks to be lost in thought, looking somewhere off camera. End ID) 

Marilyn Monroe is The Hollywood Beauty. The quintessential sexy starlet. Even if you have never seen a movie with her in it, you know who she was, a bit like possible aces I have covered before Andy Warhol or Sir Isaac Newton, you can picture her in your mind just by existing in Western popular culture. She has become a part of our communal consciousness. Her life was brief and marked by tragedy below the glitz and glamor. Her biggest role was playing Marilyn Monroe.

She was intelligent, warm, and a gifted actress, but she is rarely remembered for that. She is far better remembered for singing Happy Birthday to her sometime beau President Kennedy and for the scene in The Seven Year Itch when wind from a subway grate blows up her skirt. You've seen it. Really her whole persona was often created rather than who she really was. She was an actress in her real life, unfortunately.

Monroe actually came into the spotlight in the Second World War when she posed for photos for the boys on the front. From there her modeling, singing, and acting career skyrocketed. Until her tragic death at the age of 36 she was among the go-to actresses for those sexpot roles especially in comedies. Her death by potentially intentional drug overdose (discovered by her psychologist) is just one piece of the evidence of how much of her life was hidden, like her struggles with substance abuse and mental health.

She was famous for playing Blond Bombshells and Dumb Blonds.  She was all beauty, glamor, and sex appeal and it earned her millions of dollars. She always wanted to be more though, unfortunately she never really got it. "Please don't make me a joke," she told a journalist, "End the interview with what I believe...I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...I want to grow and develop and play serious dramatic parts. My dramatic coach tells everyone that I have a great soul, but so far nobody's interested in it." 

She is best known for as an icon and emblem of the popular culture of the 1950s and early 1960s, but her most definitive/important roles include All About Eve (1950) (a small role that would lead to her "discovery" and contract with 20th Century Fox), Monkey Business (1952), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), Niagara (1953), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Some Like it Hot (1959), The Misfits (1961), and her final film, released posthumously as a short, Something's Gotta Give (1962). She also sang "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" and the very sexually charged "Happy Birthday Mr. President" (just the song here). 

(Image Description: the poster for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It shows drawings of Jane Russel and Marilyn Monroe in red costumes the size and shape of one piece bathing suits that are sheer or pink on top. They have on red top hats and long black and white necklaces. They have black canes and are dancing with one leg upraised. Behind them is a busy Paris scene done in a more cartoony/simplified style. There are musical notes around them. Their names are above their heads in blue.  Below them on a black rectangle it says (in white and orange) "in Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [in] Technicolor" below that rectangle but above the studio info in blue it says "co-starring Charles Coburn". End ID) 

Probable Orientation: Mspec Ace

Oh, I am going to get a lot of hate for this one.

And a lot of people are going to show a lot of misogyny and aphobia, be it overt, unintentional, or internalized.  Indeed the first thing the first (allo) person I told these findings to said "but she had a ton of sex!" Yes, that is true, she did, and so do some other aces.

Not to mention that Monroe's relationship with sex was a complicated one. A very complicated one. Monroe had a deeply traumatic childhood (mentally ill mother, tossed between foster homes and orphanages) and married extremely young -- she had turned 16 just two and a half weeks earlier -- to prevent her from becoming homeless and returned to the orphanage after her most recent foster family planned on moving out of state and leaving her behind. Then while working a munitions plant in L.A. she became a model for the troops in World War II, aged 18. From her teen years she was made aware that sex was expected from her, thrust into adulthood and positions she might not have been comfortable with. She was a beautiful woman and people wanted her and she accepted that because it did get her what she wanted.

(Image Description: the 1944 factory photos that launched Monroe's modeling career, taken by David Conover for Yank Magazine at the Radioplane Munitions Factory in which she worked. Interestingly the commanding officer that sent him to take the photos was Ronald Reagan. The photo shows an 18-year-old Monroe. She is holding a small propeller and is beside some kind of red machine. She is wearing a simple green top and gray bottoms with a photo ID badge at her waist. She wears a wedding ring. She has much frizzier brown hair. She is smiling broadly. End ID)  

Over the course of her life she was in love with and had sexual relationships with many different men and women. That doesn't mean she was sexually attracted to them. Indeed throughout her life she had a lot of difficulty with sex. She didn't like it. She thought she must have been doing it "wrong" and stated that a lot of her sex appeal was applied to her rather than something she felt. She was playing to the crowd. Which makes sense, Monroe was a people pleaser. She desired closeness, she romantically loved many people, I have no doubt, and from the time she was a teenager the best appreciated way to show it was by being sexual. The fact that later in life she had a sexual encounter with a literal 16-year-old when she was 30 shows she had a pretty fucked up understanding of what was appropriate sexually. The 16-year-old was the leader of her fan club, she also had an affair with her acting coach, her first husband was her neighbor who was kind to her. She was loving the people who loved her and was showing it the way society told her to. (On her being mspec, there were several women she had affairs with, including the fan and acting coach mentioned above, indeed it has been speculated she was more attracted to women than men).

No matter how she appeared on screen, she voiced fear that she was broken and frigid to her psychologist (who agreed with her) because she didn't really enjoy/want sex.  The desire of wanting to fix herself and wanting to please the people who loved her and who she may have romantically loved in return. She probably romantically loved some of these people but didn't know how to separate that from the sexual aspect or didn't want to lose them if she did. She was giving them what they wanted and expected and what culture told her was essential to normal loving relationships.

Her sexual "failure" was a subject she returned to often in therapy throughout her life. She had only one sexual encounter she actually said she enjoyed and it seemed to be more of a relief because it made her normal than what she got from the sex itself.

She said again and again that she wasn't the sexpot people thought she was, nobody listened.

(Image Description: a series of photos from a photoshoot from Life Magazine. It shows Monroe at home in 1953, a huge year in her career. The photographer is Alfred Eisenstaedt [a photographer of whose work I am extremely fond]. They show Monroe wearing a dark turtleneck and checkered trousers. She is in a bunch of different positions and wearing different expressions. Some of these appear candid and others posed. I am especially fond of one in the middle in which she appears to be trying to stop herself from laughing or sneezing. I like to imagine it is the former. It is very human. End ID)

“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.”

-Marilyn Monroe

"I never quite understood it, this sex symbol. I always thought symbols were those things you clash together! That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things they've got symbols of."

—Monroe in an interview for Life in 1962 (both of these quotes illustrate that her "sex appeal" was manufactured and applied rather than her own natural state. Her audience made it clear what they wanted and she played to it.)

"A man who had kissed me once had said it was very possible that I was a lesbian because apparently I had no response to males - meaning him...I didn't contradict him because I didn't know what I was... Now, having fallen in love, I knew what I was. It wasn't a lesbian."

-Marilyn Monroe in her autobiography My Story (written 1954, published 1974). (Note that she has "no response". She loves a man, this one or another, but she has "no response" to men physically. That is the only response he could comment on, her physical one. Clearly she feels some kind of attraction to someone eventually, but not sexually/physically. It is the difference between romantic and sexual love. It also shows that homosexuality and asexuality have always overlapped.)

"Primary frigidity" 

-the diagnosis from Monroe's therapist Dr. Ralph Greenson, he worked to "cure" her of this "frigidity"

“Maybe I’m a sexless sex goddess.” 

– Marilyn Monroe to Life magazine journalist Richard Meryman, 1961

(Image Description: a photo of Marilyn Monroe behind the scenes on the set of The Misfits in 1960, photographed by Inge Morath.  She is leaning across a table and smiling at someone to the right of the frame. She has tired eyes. End ID) 

[cptnsantiago]

take me home

2/?

~ all i want for christmas is your name

read on ao3

Everyone expects baby Peralta-Santiago to arrive early. It’s a Santiago child, they’re all early. Amy had expected, or  hoped, that early meant after Christmas but before the new year. That’s not the case. 

She instead decides to begin her journey into the world on the coldest night of the year, only four days from Christmas. Amy feels the first contractions at 4am, after spending the whole night attempting to find a comfortable position. All the while Jake snores next to her,  taunting her. 

She can’t bring herself to be genuinely angry at him - not yet. Jake had been nothing but supportive and excited for their baby, he had been since they decided to start trying. They were having a  girl. It had shocked everyone but Amy and she had been three hundred dollars richer for it. He had cried with her at the ultrasound when they found out were having a girl. Jake also stayed up late with her, gave her massages at her demand, provided her with every craving she had. He may not be carrying a 10-pound human (maybe an exaggeration, Amy couldn’t tell) inside him, but he deserved his rest as much as she did. 

So she lets him sleep until the contractions are close enough to worry, but it doesn’t take long until they hurt bad enough to dig her nails into his arm. “Ames?”

“B-baby.” Amy winces again before sucking in a deep breath as the contraction slowly subsides. 

“Is something wrong?” Amy shakes her head, “Is… Is she coming, Ames? Was that a contraction?”

“Yep.” Amy laughs, finally smiling at Jake’s concerned features. “Nine days early, she’s really outdoing the rest of the Santiago’s.”

“David couldn’t beat you at this if he  tried .” Jake encourages with a teasing grin. “We’re having our baby?”

“We’re having our baby.” Amy cries happily, shifting closer to him so he can wrap his arms around her, “I love you.”

The next 15 hours are a blur. Jake is a lot calmer than she expected - not like in every movie or TV show ever where the dad freaks out and faints at the sight of anything gooey - but he stays calm, he guides her through her breathing exercises and offers physical support when she needs it. Jake gets the nurse to back off when she congratulates them on a Christmas baby, because he knew how stressed she was about the dessert she definitely wasn’t bringing for Christmas. He’s really the perfect partner. 

Amy remembers the days of feelings simmering just under the surface and thinking to herself,  Jake is way too immature. It would never work  . Before Jake, Amy thought that being right was everything. Against David, Amy always had to be right and could never lose an argument without lowkey being the end of the world for her. She had never liked being wrong, but she wears this misconception with a badge of pride because there is  no one  else Amy could imagine or  want  to do all this with. 

Jake Peralta was her person. And they had a baby girl together. 

A baby girl born at 7:37pm on December 21st. Seven pounds, twenty inches. A baby girl whom they keep calling Baby Girl Peralta-Santiago because she had been cursed with decisive cops as parents who were apparently indecisive in every other way. 

It’s not really at the top of their priorities - they’re busting adoring every inch of her wriggling in her mother’s arms. Amy traces with her finger the dark hair that peaks from under her hospital issued beanie, over her eyebrows and past her blinking and confused eyes down to her cheeks, nose, lips and chin. “She’s actually your twin, you’re just born many years apart. This is a scientific discovery, babe!” 

Amy rolls her eyes at his quiet enthusiasm, her fingers moving back to stroke their daughters cheeks. “Santiago’s just have strong genes.”

“That’s why you’re all so gorgeous of course. Thanks Victor and Camila!” Jake slides closer behind Amy so she can rest her head against him, and both of them are able to watch their daughter attempt to focus on something. “What’s your name, mija?”

The post baby hormones are almost more of a bitch than her pregnancy, so she has to take a moment to pull herself together at Jake saying  mija to their daughter . “Por favor, no te pongas de acuerdo con Naomi. He just wants to name you after Nakatomi plaza and we have to stick together so he can’t trick us!” 

“Oh  please  , Ames. You were the one trying to name her Hermione.” Jake scoffs, “She’s gonna end up being Baby Girl forever. We can’t even make that work! People will think we’re trying to copy Friends!”

“Her name is definitely not baby girl. We’re going to figure it out, let’s just enjoy her and fall asleep.”

~ 

They leave the hospital without a name. The nurse informs them that they have two weeks to decide and get the paperwork in. But the time restriction somehow stresses her out more than picking the perfect name, combined with Christmas being in two days and not having any presents or an outfit for her to wear. 

Jake holds her hand the whole time she rants, just as he always did, his eyes shifting occasionally to the tiny newborn sleeping in the bassinet next to their bed. “Ames, take a deep breath. I’m almost certain she’ll forgive us if she doesn’t have any presents at four days old, and Charles already told me he found four potential Christmas outfits.”

“What would I do without Charles?” Amy sighs happily, turning to run a hand through Jake’s sleepy curls. “What would I do without you?” 

Jake leans forward so their foreheads were touching, both leaning into the quiet moment with only their breathing and tiny baby snores and grunts in the background. He kisses the side of her mouth, his heart warming as a small but tired smile creeps on her face. “We should probably sleep while she’s sleeping.”

“I still have so much to prepare.” Amy whines, her head falling down to his shoulder. 

“Just a little nap, Ames. I’m sure she’ll be screaming at us soon enough for the boob.”

~

It’s a lot of the same for them. Sleep, feed baby girl with no name, change diaper, attempt to think about Christmas, sleep more, eat when Charles comes over with food, brainstorm baby names, and sometimes even more sleep. 

A tradition of their own since they had moved in together was to stay in on Christmas Eve, watching  Harry Potter  and stay up till midnight so they could open each other’s presents - it was a little harder this year. Jake was holding a milk drunk, almost four day old baby in one arm while his other was wrapped around his half asleep wife, trying himself not to fall asleep while Harry fought off Voldemort for the first time. 

Even when he wasn’t nodding off himself, his eyes were usually on the baby in his arms. Charles had gone all out in the baby Christmas outfit department. She had on a thick red headband with a bow on the side, snowflakes printed all over with matching pants, a onesie that read ‘My 1st Christmas!’ and a knitted cardigan over the top to keep her warm. Jake was afraid of the parents he and Amy were becoming, because they both  loved  it. She looked so  cheesy  but it was the cutest thing in the world, and they even did their own mini photoshoot before she started screaming to be fed. 

So here Jake was, surrounded by his family - a milk drunk baby and his wife fast asleep on his shoulder. The baby in his arm begins to squirm, grunting and opening her eyes. “Cómo te llamas, mija?” Jake’s heart warms as she meets his eyes, “Angelica? Eliza? Peggy? Or no Schyler sister names?”

“Absolutely not.” Amy mumbles next to him, eyes still closed. 

“Eliza isn’t a bad name.” Jake replies with a frown. 

Amy opens her eyes, stretching and looking at their baby. “She doesn’t look like an Eliza.”

At that, she grunts and her face contorts in a grimace. 

“Gotcha, no Eliza.” Jake snorts, both him and Amy watched in amazement as she continues to grimace before closing her eyes again and smiling. “Ames! She smiled, definitely not Eliza! She must have hated Eliza.”

“That, or she passed gas.” Amy giggles, pinching her nose. “Hey, look at the time.”

“Midnight! Happy Christmas!” Jake whispers, stroking her cheek lightly before turning to peck Amy on the lips. “Merry Christmas, I love you.”

“Merry Christmas…” Amy sighs happily, closing her eyes again for a moment. “Already four days old and she’s about to face the most chaotic day of the year.”

“We can just skip it?” Jake questions, his voice squeaking as he tries to believe his own words. “I know it’s crazy, but who expects us to go out with a four day old for more than half an hour?”

“My parents is who.” She shakes her head, “Maybe we can be late?”

“Wow you  are  sleep deprived.” Jake laughs softly, “What if we’re late  and we leave early?”

“You’re talking crazy talk now!” Amy snorts, biting her lip as to not disturb the sleeping baby. “I’m getting sick of calling her baby girl, seriously.”

Jake nods in agreement and they fall into a peaceful silence, with only the sounds of the city and Harry Potter in the background. She never thought it would be  this impossible to choose a name for their baby. The baby wrapped up in Jake’s arms was too perfect to have their name rushed. 

The time they spent  trying  , and waiting for results and keeping it a secret from Boyle - it all lead to this moment. Not so much her being born, even though that was a  huge  deal, but being given her name. She had to live with it for whole life (unless she  wanted to change it  - they had both been very adamant in supporting this potential for their daughters future). Maybe they were overthinking it, and the fact that they’ve had a combined thirteen hours sleep in the last two days wasn’t helping them make a choice. 

“Maybe we should revisit some names?” Jake offers, and Amy’s certain he’s read her mind.

“Okay, yeah. Good idea.” Amy agrees, “But no Naomi.”

“Yeah! I get it! Naomi’s out of the picture!” Jake tips his head back in laughter, which wakes the infant in his arms. They’re lucky she doesn’t cry, but just stares up at her father again. “Good you’re awake, we need your help.”

“Now should we go over the suggestions from the squad?” Amy looks to her phone, which has an extensive list. 

“I mean, Rosa’s suggestion is Kid and Charles insists on Charlotte, so no?” Jake shifts the baby so she’s resting on his bent knees. This way she’s able to attempt to look at the both of them while fighting off sleep again. “I think I have an idea…”

“Do tell.” Amy’s not looking at him but looping her pointer finger so she can grip tightly onto it. 

“So I thought Luna-”

“Jake we agreed no character names!” Amy groans, pouting up at him.

“I  know but hear me out, Ames. I’ve thought about this.” Jake’s eyes begin to shimmer, either from tiredness or pure affection, she can’t tell but she knows he’s sincere. “So I thought Luna Rey, for a few reasons. So first, they both have a meaning in Spanish, right?”

“Moon King?” Amy snorts, “That barely makes sense.”

“Ah, but they have meaning. Rey has more of a meaning of Captain Holt to me, and he’s your mentor and best friend after- nevermind he’s your best friend. But also Captain Holt is basically king of the precinct, so it totally works.” Amy can’t really fight that, so she nods and waits for him to continue. “ And Luna, because, well you probably don’t remember because you were deliriously tired but there was a full moon the night she was born. And I stood with her in my arms by the window and just thought about how beautiful they both were. Our baby, and the moon - except she’s prettier. So Spanish meaning, boom!

Okay... So, uh, reason one was basically all my reasons meshed together, and I’m too tired to put up a proper argument for you right now  however  , my final statement. Luna Rey Santiago-Peralta, has both personal and cultural meaning while also happening to be named after two  badass characters that we both love. Rey and Luna Lovegood. Debate over.”

Amy’s lack of sleep is the only reason she’s unable to keep the tears at bay as she laughs at her husband. The first time she had heard the name Luna, she had been so vehemently against it but now after hearing Jake’s case, she can’t remember those protests. 

“Luna? Es ese es tu nombre?” Amy whispers, her heart expanding five sizes as she says it out loud. She doesn’t react like the last time, but she does attempt to pull Amy’s finger into her mouth. “Luna Rey Santiago-Peralta.”

“We’d like to formally apologise for giving you too long of a name.” Jake chuckes, “Do you really like it?”

“Yes, I do.” Amy sniffles, smiling at him brightly. “I’ve really turned you into a debate genius.”

“Only for Luna. It’s what she deserves.” Jake teases with a kiss to Amy’s nose before his eyes drift back to Luna. “It’s really her first Christmas, I’m too tired to process any of this.”

“Happy Christmas, Luna.” 

“The happiest of Christmases, to both of you.”

[god-of-my-world]

HC ep 2 - Grey End Transcript

this is mostly for potential analysis, but I thought I’d post this (and any future ones) anyway. 

Characters: Charlotte, Anri, the Teacher, Students, Umbrella Man, Frei, C (mentioned)

[Vote for Anri] 

I hope your decision is the right one, Seth. This way, I'll fulfill my promises to both C and Anri. I give my vote to Anri. Anri looks at me in surprise. 

"You've...actually voted for me?" 

"We've made a promise, didn't we?"

"Ah...right. we did. We sure did! Look, Anri's voting for you too." 

Anri chooses my name in the list. 

"Attention, please! Everyone, STOP VOTING NOW! We will now count the votes. Please wait for a moment." 

3...2...1…

"Aaaaaand the one who'll amount to nothing, the most useless of all, the one with zero votes is...VINCENT WORDSWORTH! Not only he never SOCIALIZED, he didn't even attend class!"

"That's a lie. C lost all points because he ran away from the House." 

"Such a worthless being can never become useful to SOCIETY. He's destined to amount to nothing! Therefore, his SOUL DATA is CORRUPTED. Am I right, everyone?" 

The audience roars with a 'YES'. 

"What a loser." 

"...it's all because I've abandoned him." 

Everyone's clapping and laughing. 

"LOSER GOD! LOSER GOD!"

It feels like a mass psychosis. It shouldn't be like this. Anri touches my shoulder. She's smiling, just like everyone else. 

"Serves him right. It's great we didn't get chosen, right?" 

I don't know what to reply with. The guards start making their way to C. I see Umbrella Man among the crowd. His yellow eyes stand out among all. 

"What a good day, isn't it?" 

"Umbrella Man! Your employer, he-" 

"Excuse me, what?" 

"The god of this world! He's-" 

"Oh. Are you talking about that grey-haired boy? Haha. Ha. Pfft. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh god. My stomach hurts from laughter. I expected nothing less from you, to be honest. Unfortunately… That boy is a perfectly human being, not special in any kind of way. Come on, take a look at him!" 

I call out to C. 

"Vincent!" 

He hears my voice and turns around. I stare at him. What stares back at me… Is the abyss itself. Then, for a brief moment, I finally see his face. 

"..." 

A face of a small scared boy. 

"!!" 

He disappears behind the doors. I feel my feet move forward on their own. 

"Where are you going?" 

"I have to save him." 

"Are you insane? Forget that loser!" 

"I save him once. I'm now responsible for his life." 

"No, you're not! You'll stay here with me." 

"...I'm sorry, Anri. I have to go." 

"Wait!" 

Anri grabs my sweater. 

"I won't let you go! People don't return from the Smile Room! You'll stay here! Where you belong! With me!" 

I break free from her grip. 

"I'll be back in a moment, alright?" 

>NEW TASK: Save Vincent! 

[Walk into the smile room] 

You're not a loser god, C. I think you're wonderful. You're wonderful exactly because you're flawed. Because it makes you so very human. We’re flawed. We’re born to make errors. We hurt each other because we’re essentially egotistic. That's why I want to know you better. 

C is lying on the table with his eyes open. 

"Vincent!! I'm so glad you're safe. Thank god…" 

"Wait, miss Wiltshire. Something's off." 

"Eh?" 

"There's no data in this vessel. There's no soul inside." 

"What are you saying, Frei? Vincent is breathing! He's right here!" 

"What I am saying is that it's a lump of meat lying on the table. It's not a person." 

"It...can't be. No way. You're lying." 

"I do not tell lies, miss Wiltshire. We were too late." 

"..."

I feel the ink rise in my throat. Everything begins to collapse. It's not fair. Not fair. Not fair. Not fair. Why has it come to this?

I will consume everyone and have them sleep peacefully inside my belly. No one will ever hurt anyone, and no one will get hurt. Because no one would feel anything. Humanity would ascend to a new level and evolve into something greater. So I rose above all cities and countries. And ate, and ate, and ate until my belly was full. Until it hurt so much it was hard to breathe. I ate my classmates, my parents, my imaginary friends and the Oracle itself. I ate the lands and the buildings. I ate junk food and concrete altogether. Everyone was gone and my body eventually collapsed from the burden of consuming everything in sight. I became a black hole that sucked everything in, destroying it all. There was no one but me left, yet I was with everyone at the same time. For I became the world itself. 

Holding an empty shell of a false god I cried. 

“Liar! You liar! Vincent you liar! You said your earthly shell would wither and you would become a god again. Yet no matter where I look, I can’t find you!”

I cried, and cried, and cried until my voice became hoarse. I'm sorry, everyone. I couldn't save anyone or anything. I'm sorry Anri. You protected me. You got angry in my place. Yet, I thought only about myself. I’m sorry, Vincent. All this time i wanted to be saved myself. So I sought salvation in you. I wanted you to become my hero. But it doesn't matter now. 

"Now that's too tragic. Don't you think my dear?”

“You?”

“Hello there.”

You're still alive?”

“My dear, that's a harsh way to put it. Of course, I am. The world you've consumed is a particle in the vast universe.” 

“Then why are you here?”

“I've come on my own accord.”

I clutch Vincent's body close to mine.

“Easy, easy. I'm not here to take him away. Instead, I've brought you something.”

Umbrella man brings out an item he was carrying. It's a box. 

“What is it?”

“What does it look like to you?”

“A soul cube.”

“Then a cube it shall become. It's a copy of this boy's soul. it was rather hard to get. I'm afraid the original is destroyed though.”

“Souls have backup copies?”

“Well of course. Data backup is essential. You must've thought you were able to go back in time. When in reality, your soul cube copy was loaded into a new body every time you died.”

“I've never thought it was like this.”

“Although you cannot bring him back to life, with a soul cube he won't vanish from this world completely.”

“So no matter what, I couldn't save him in the end.”

“You still can save his soul. If you open the cube, you'll release his soul data. He will become a Stargazer and pass the Purgatory stage. Who knows? Perhaps he'll want to stay with you afterward. Anyhow, enough with idle talk. Charlotte Wiltshire. You've consumed the energy of an entire world and an Oracle and made it a part of you. You can convert the energy inside of you to create life from zero. When it runs out all you have to do is consume more. In short… you've become a god. A binge eater at that. That's a fact. If you don't mind, may I ask, what do you plan to do now?”

“I'm tired, Umbrella Man. I want to rest.”

“Is that all? You now have the power to consume worlds.”

“I've never asked for it.”

“Then, do you plan to leave this domain?”

“I will remain here. I don't want to eat anymore, Umbrella Man.”

“Oh well. There are alternate versions of yourself who still struggle in countless parallel worlds. So are people you care about. Will you abandon them too?”

“...no. I want to look over them. I still want to protect everyone. Umbrella Man. You know everything in this world. You exist outside of the time, in both past, present, and future alike. Would you help me watch over my world while I rest? Right now it may seem hopeless, but perhaps there's a chance for a better ending.”

“Is that an employment offer, Miss Wiltshire?”

“Yes. I want to hire you. Would you accept?”

“Fufu. My loyalty comes with a price, my dear. In return, you shall lose your name. The world will forget your human existence, and your name shall become an empty sound. Your alternative incarnations shall never learn about you, and your name will be erased from all soul archives. You will go by many names, but none of them will define you. For I will eat it. Would you pay this price?” 

“Yes. I accept, Umbrella Man.”

“So fast! You really don't value yourself at all. a contract between a Name Eater and World Eater. How thrilling. Ha-ha-ha! I suppose hiding my true nature is meaningless now. After all, it is you who invented the concept of Observers and Puppeteers alike. Such things as episodes with me talking to your Puppeteer were no more than visions of a delusional grade-schooler.”

I laugh a little. It sounds a little hysterical. 

“Have I said something funny, my dear?”

“No, it's just...You've always said that your employer cared about my well-being. Now that I realized who was all along, I couldn't help myself.”

“‘Oh the irony’, am I right? The moment you hired me was destined to happen all along.”

“By the way, ‘Umbrella Man’. That's how I called you since I was a child, right?”

“Why yes. I've grown accustomed to this distasteful nickname.” 

“Do you have a real name?” 

“I go by many names. People give them to themselves. For example, you can call me ‘Charles’.”

The man laughs mischievously. I laugh with him. 

“Now then. I shall give you some privacy. You still have things to do before your slumber, don't you?”

Just like that, Charles disappears. I look at the soul cube in my hands. It's small and grey. Fragile. I smile to myself. 

“You know Vincent, I never noticed how fragile you were. You feared germs, people and human life itself... So you've decided you didn't belong to this world. I wonder how it felt all this time. I was so fascinated with you that it made me ignorant. ...although ignorance is a trait we share. ...It's time to let you go.”

I open the soul cube. It's contents disappear. 

“...See you later, Vincent.”

I take his body in my arms and get up from my knees. Everyone - Magcat, Felix, Aiden, Bennett, Florence and Huxley, and many, many more - walks behind me. As long as I exist, they won't disappear. After all, I've created them. We walk for a long time. 

In a field of ink and paper, meat and machinery, soap and bugs, the god of this world lies beside me. He will, too, wake up one day. 

“Goodnight, Vincent.” 

My eyelids become heavy. I know it'll be a dreamless sleep. I don't want to dream anymore. I finally close my eyes. 

Rejoice Seth, faithful friend of mine. I became the god of my dollhouse world and will observe it's people until the end of time. Charles will eat my name and will watch over me in every single timeline that exists. The world will forget my existence. But you won't. And that's the only thing that's important. 

GREY END: Eternal Rest For God

[verai-marcel]

Lesson in Humility (RDR2 Fanfic, 18+ ONLY)

Summary: You were raised in a cold household, with parents who only wanted what was best for themselves. So you were taught how to be a lady with the coldest eyes and an ice heart. They taught you that no one was good enough, that you were better than everyone else, and you believed them. At least, until a blue-eyed bodyguard came to humble you.

Author’s Notes: Geez, I’m not sure what kick I’m on, but my stories are getting more filthy, sorry. @dva-xo, this one is all yours. Also trying a new format, where reader POV refers to you as “you”, while Arthur’s POV refers to you as “her”. I think, from his perspective, he’s not going to think in second person. Let me know what you think.

Tags: rough sex, D/s, humiliation play, name calling, low honor arthur, rich reader, virgin reader, reader POV, Arthur POV, filthy talk, might as well call it a porn

Also find it on AO3!

“Ain't there someone better for this job? Maybe someone better lookin’ and charmin’?”

Hosea sighed. For all his picking on Arthur for being an idiot, he knew he really wasn’t. He was the only one capable of handling this job with any tact. Charles was a close second, but he was a better hunter, so his skills would be better suited to feed the camp. Javier might have been able to do this, but Dutch needed him for scouting and tracking the O’Driscolls. And there was no way he was sending John or Bill or heaven forbid, Micah. Not for a job like this.

“It'll only be for a week while the family finds a permanent house guard.”

Arthur sighed so hard that Hosea thought he was being melodramatic if he didn't know him any better.

“Fine, fine. This better pay good.”

“It will. We already got paid partially up front, and you'll get paid the full amount at the end of the week when the contract is up. Now go meet her at this house,” he said, passing Arthur a map with directions scribbled in the corner.

“She better not be some spoiled brat,” Arthur mumbled and he stomped off to pack some clothes.

***

Looking up at the small house, you sighed. Your parents had sent you to St. Denis to learn how to be a proper lady of the house. Growing up under the exacting tutelage of your narcissistic parents, they had taught you etiquette and reminded you constantly of your place in life, and thus, the relative place of others, which was beneath you.

The best women's college with the best home economics program was in this city, and while you could recite etiquette rules all day, you couldn't cook or mend a shirt for the life of you. You were feeling bitter; all the things that had interested you as a child but were told were beneath you, were now things your parents had decided were the proper topics to learn.

You could have let me learn when I was 5, then I wouldn't have to start twenty years late.

Sighing again, you set your bitterness aside and followed the two servants who were bringing your luggage inside. A maid greeted you at the door and guided you around the house; it was small, just two stories: there was a parlour, eating area, servant’s quarters, and kitchen downstairs, and four bedrooms upstairs. One of those bedrooms was yours, another was for your parents when they stayed in town, and the last two were for guests.

Before you had left the main house, however, your parents told you that one of the guest bedrooms would be occupied by a personal bodyguard that they had hired for you. It was only for a week until they could find a permanent guard, they had said. You rolled your eyes; you didn’t need some local ruffian following you around.

You already hated it here. It was humid and your clothing was sticking to your skin in an unrefined manner. The maid had left you alone in your new room while she continued cleaning and putting away your belongings. You turned to her and told her that you would like a bath. She paused for a moment.

“Immediately,” you added.

She nodded and went away to get it prepared for you.

Walking over to the window, you looked out at the city and scowled. You were not looking forward to living here.

***

Arthur looked up at the decently sized house and whistled. Whoever he was guarding really was rich, if this was their second home. He walked through the gates and knocked on the doors. An older woman came to the door. He quickly explained that he was the bodyguard hired by the head of the family and gave her the letter of introduction that Hosea had given to him.

After introducing herself as Anna Miller, the head housekeeper, she led him through the house so he’d learn the location of all the rooms, and then finally the room where he’d be for the next week. She also gave him a schedule of the lady’s week; it looked like he’d be escorting her to and from school for five days, and then the last two days would be leisure, and he’d just have to take her wherever she wanted to go.

“Oh, one more thing. Don’t take anything she says personally,” she said before she left him to unpack.

“Huh?”

The housekeeper looked back at him over her shoulder. “She’s a cold one.”

***

After escorting you to the college this morning, the maid had said that your new guard would come to escort you home, and to wait at the gates for him. So you waited, and you held yourself up straight, even though everything in you wanted to just slouch and slink home. It had been a terrible day. You had followed each instruction to the letter, been an exemplary student. And yet when you tried to show another girl how to double stitch, she had turned you away, asking the other girls instead, even though you were clearly the better study.

Fools, tittering away. Some of us are here to better ourselves, you had thought disdainfully.

When the instructor had tried to tell you that you were perhaps being a bit showy, you swallowed any response you might have made and nodded. Etiquette demanded that you treat all others as equals, even if you were superior to them. To maintain that facade all the time was stressful; all you wanted was a bit of praise for being so good. Instead you were punished for being better. Served me right, you thought. You nearly broke etiquette.

When your coach came up and stopped before you, you watched with some trepidation as a tall, broad-shouldered man stepped out and looked straight at you. He called your name, and held out his hand.

Silently, you took it and let him help you into the coach. And you were silent the whole way back, since you had nothing to say.

***

Jesus, Mrs. Miller was right. She IS cold. Not a damn word the whole ride back, Arthur thought to himself as he helped her out of the coach. She kept walking away from him, her back straight, her face not showing a single emotion. He trailed behind her, not sure what he was supposed to do now.

“You’re dismissed for today,” she said when she got to the door. “I have no need for a guard now that I’m home.”

Arthur’s eyebrows furrowed. “Listen, as much as I’d like to go the bar and get a drink, Mrs. Miller clearly stated that I’m supposed to guard you at all times.”

“Who said that?”

“Mrs. Miller? The head housekeeper?”

“Oh. Her. Fine,” she said dismissively, and walked into the house as if he wasn’t there.

Arthur rubbed his face; he felt a headache coming on.

This is goin’ to be a long week.

***

You didn’t know the maid was the head housekeeper, but he didn’t need to know that. You hadn’t even bothered to remember her name. Such details didn’t register as important to you; what mattered now was maintaining your dignity. You had never dealt with a man who not only questioned you, but did so in an impolite tone. You had almost snapped at him, but you would not lose decorum over such a small thing.

It was not lost on you that the man exuded the kind of masculinity that you had only heard about behind closed parlour doors where women spoke quietly of the books they had read, books with scandalous content with gunslingers rescuing ladies from bandits. Your breathing hitched at the thought, and you had to take a deep breath to calm your heart. This would not do at all.

This was going to be a very long week.

***

Three days passed, and Arthur grew more and more irritated with the lady who showed nothing but cold indifference to everyone around her, especially him. He was only mildly annoyed by how she treated him, but the way she barely spoke to Anna, and the way she treated the servants Thomas and Harry, pissed him off. He even talked to them about it, but they just shrugged it off, saying that the lady had always been like that, and she didn’t know any better. When he asked why wasn’t she taught better, they shrugged again.

“She’s the daughter of our boss; it’s hard for us to say anything,” they had said. Arthur just shook his head. This wasn’t his place. Four more days, and he could collect his pay and go.

***

Each day that passed, Arthur would give you a piece of his mind. Somewhat politely at first, but with each passing day, he seemed to get more short with you.

On the sixth day, Arthur finally snapped at you.

“Show some respect, Thomas was just doin’ his job,” he growled while walking with you upstairs after dinner. You had once again corrected Thomas on the proper way to lay out the silverware before the meal started, and you recall Arthur giving you a pointed look, but you hadn’t known why, and you didn’t care.

“How am I not? I’m correcting him.”

“He’s a human bein’, not an animal. A please and a thank you never hurt nobody.”

You opened your mouth to retort, but he had a point; etiquette demanded equal treatment. You shut your mouth and looked away.

“Oh, so you CAN feel ashamed.”

You glared daggers at him. “You should know who you’re dealing with.”

“What, a rich woman with no respect for common folk?”

“I respect those who deserve it.”

By now he had walked you to your room, and your hand was on the doorknob. You jumped when his hand slammed the door jamb next to your face.

“He deserves it more than you,” he snarled.

***

Arthur noted her eyes going wide and looking a bit scared as she turned to look at him. The darker part of his desires flared to life, seeing her like this. A crooked smile slowly grew on his face. It was his last night here. Might as well teach her a lesson, if she chose to let him in.

***

Your heart beat wildly in your ribcage. The smile that he was giving you was like nothing any man had shown you before. You felt something tense lower in your body, and you knew, you knew that if you let him into your room, you would throw all of your etiquette lessons out the window.

“Looks like you ain’t never been taken to task for your lack of respect.”

You scoffed, despite feeling a tremble in your hands. “Are you going to?”

He stepped menacingly closer, staring down at you once he had you pinned against the door with his gimlet stare.

“Maybe I will. Because you need to learn some manners.”

Your head spun. Maybe you deserved it. This past week, as you thought of all the times you had failed to maintain etiquette in class, letting out the occasional scoff or snide remark, you felt shame burn in your heart. And seeing the reaction of the women around you? The look in their eyes, knowing you weren’t perfect? The worst.

Something in you snapped. You turned the door handle.

“Fine.”

***

Arthur followed her into the dimly lit room and locked the door behind him. He didn’t want any interruptions. She stopped in the middle of the room and turned to look at him, a defiant look on her, even though she had clearly invited him in. He put his hands on his belt and observed her. In a pink blouse and a cream colored skirt, she looked absolutely charming. He had an urge to take her hair out of that tight bun and let it cascade down her naked body.

He stepped closer to her, closer than her precious etiquette dictated, and touched her hip. He loved the soft gasp she gave, and gripped her waist, pulling her close. Leaning in and grazing her earlobe with his lips, he felt his blood rush at the feel of her quivering against him. He was going to enjoy this one.

***

“Proper women don’t raise their voice,” he whispered into your ear. That was the only warning you got before he started sucking on your neck. You gasped and started breathing faster.

“Unbutton your blouse,” he ordered. You slowly undid each button as he watched you, a hunger growing in his eyes as more of your skin was exposed. You let the blouse slide off you. Your chemise was blocking his view, so he reached up and tore the fabric down, baring your breasts. You immediately brought your arms up, but he grabbed your wrists.

“Rule one: show me everythin’,” he said in a low voice. He let go of your wrists; you dropped your arms and let him look at you. Your face burned.

Then he turned you around and pushed you towards the window. Pulling open the drapes a little bit, he forced you up against the glass, flattening your breasts against the cool material. Looking outside, you saw a few people past the garden gates. It suddenly hit you that if you could see them, then they could potentially see you.

You struggled in his arms, but with one hand he gripped the back of your neck, and with the other, he started lifting up your skirt.

“People can see me!” you whispered frantically.

“Maybe. Maybe not. They might not notice.”

You were about to protest some more, but then you felt his touch on your thigh. He drew lazy circles on your rear, then delved his fingers down to your slit. Flicking your clit was a new sensation, and you took a sharp breath. You wriggled as you felt him toy with your body. His other hand that had been on the back of your neck holding you in place now started to stroke your shoulders, your waist, your hips. He pulled the remains of your chemise off you so you were bare from the waist up.

“Then again, maybe they'll all see you, exposin’ yourself like this.”

Then he pushed a finger inside of you, and you pressed up against the glass, unfamiliar with this intimate invasion of your body. You quietly cried out at the strange feeling. When he added a second one, then a third, you were glad for the cool glass against your body as it heated up with every push into you. He watched you in the reflection of the glass, could see your face contort with everything he did to you. The arrogance in his smile gnawed at you, but there was nothing you could say; you had asked for this.

Then he pulled his fingers out of you. You turned your head to see him unbuttoning his fly. Noticing that he had your attention, he slowly pulled his cock out, running your juices from his fingers up and down his hard shaft.

Arthur stepped closer and nudged your opening. You squeaked, making him chuckle. Then he began to sink himself inside of you.

“Ah, ah,” you called out, unable to keep your voice in. He covered your mouth.

“Rule two: My little bitch doesn't speak unless spoken to,” he rasped in your ear as he sunk in to the hilt and stayed still, letting you adjust to his girth. You trembled under him, and he licked the column of your neck as he undid your hair. It fell in waves down your back and around your shoulders; he combed his hand through it gently, before grabbing a handful at the base of your head and pulling you back.

He tightened the grip on your waist before he slid out of you and then slammed back in with such force that you were shoved into the glass. You braced your arms against the window frame to keep your balance as he started to move faster.

“Fucked by a man you hardly know. That ain't so ladylike,” he said without missing a beat. “Shameful hussy like you deserves this.”

You clenched around him. What on earth was the matter with you? You wanted him talking down to you, degrading you. The humiliation, specifically from him, made you feel on fire for once in your cold life.

His grip on you tightened, almost painfully, and brought you back to the present. “Ain't that right, sugar?” he growled.

“Y-yes,” you stammered.

He pulled tighter on your hair. “Yes what?”

“Yes, sir,” you breathed.

His low laugh sounded like a cross between amusement and dark pleasure. Letting go of your hair, he started fucking you harder, your body thumping softly against the glass. You tried not to moan, tried not to make any sounds, but when he reached down to finger your clit, your voice betrayed you, a soft whine escaping your lips.

Arthur’s fingers immediately left your folds, and you choked back a sob at their loss. You felt him pull away from you, and you slid down the glass slightly.

He undid your skirt and pulled it off, along with your drawers, leaving you naked except for your stockings. Then he slapped your ass hard, making you yelp in surprise.

“Don’t make me punish you more. Just stay quiet and take it.” He spanked your ass again, and you bit your lower lip to keep from crying out. Again and again, he made your rear end sting.

When he finally stopped, you weren’t sure how many spankings you had taken. All you knew was that when he shoved himself back inside you once more, the feeling of his clothes against your sensitive skin was too much, and you once again pushed up against the glass since you had nowhere else to go.

“Look out there, sugar. All those people you look down on. Can you imagine what they’d think of you now?”

You looked away from the window and closed your eyes.

Then you felt him wrap his arms around you and lift you up.

“Wrap your arm around me,” he ordered. You swung one arm around his neck and grabbed his shoulder. You leaned back on his chest as he adjusted his stance, and then switched his grip to spread your legs wide. In the reflection of the glass, you saw yourself in his arms, his hands gripping your thighs. You were spread open like a butterfly, and in between your legs, his cock was pulsing inside you.

Then he started lifting you up and down, and in the glass you saw a wanton woman, breasts heaving, your slit flowing with your juices as he made you his for the night.

“Tell me what you are.”

“I'm your whore,” you gasped.

“And what do you need?”

“Your cock inside me,” you whimpered.

And you became addicted. The power in his arms, his whole body, was a wonderous thing, as he fucked you by the window for anyone to see. The way he looked at you, like you were nothing, like you should feel so honored to be used by him, made you shiver.

“Look at yourself. How can you be better than them, when you're actin’ like this?” He thrust into you one more time and kept himself fully inside you.

“Touch yourself. Show me your face when you come with my dick inside you.”

You reached down with your free hand and rubbed yourself. It didn't take long, you were already so close that you came within a minute, gasping and staring at Arthur's eyes in the reflection. He looked satisfied, and a thrill of happiness ran through you.

He walked over to the bed and dropped you onto the mattress, face first. You tried to lift your head, but he immediately shoved it back down.

Entering you from behind, he railed you hard, not letting up for a moment, not giving you any mercy. He grabbed a corner of the bedsheet and stuffed it in your mouth to stifle your cries. You bit down and moaned as he kept pounding into you, leaning back occasionally to smack your ass.

“Learn your lesson, sugar?”

You nodded frantically.

He took the sheet out of your mouth. “What was that?”

“Yes, sir!”

“Good,” he said slowly, the word suddenly becoming so sexual in nature that you wanted him to say it again. Anything to make him praise you with that deep, honeyed voice.

He suddenly pulled out of you and grabbed your hair, dragging you to your knees in front of him. He slowly stroked his cock in front of you and tipped your chin up.

“Open up, sweet. I'm gonna use you real good tonight.”

You opened your mouth and he gently started to move in and out, letting you get used to his size. You got the idea quickly and moved on your own, so all he had to do was stand there and let you pleasure him. Using your tongue, you quickly learned what he liked, looking up at him and begging for praise with your eyes. You were completely in his thrall, and he knew it.

“That's it, you're doing good,” he crooned, and you flushed with ecstacy. He petted your hair and caressed your cheek, and you leaned into his touch like a cat.

You felt him twitch in your mouth. Suddenly Arthur grabbed your hair and pulled you off him, your mouth making a pop sound as he gripped himself and stroked once, twice, and came all over your unsuspecting face.

“Clean me up,” he demanded, and you licked him until he was satisfied. He put himself away and looked down at you with a wry grin.

“You look so slutty with my spend all over you, sugar.”

“Thank you, sir,” you said without prompting. He gave you a true smile this time, his eyes filling with warmth. You wanted for nothing more.

He kneeled down so he was eye level with you. “Now clean yourself up. And don't tell no one about this.” Then he leaned in closer and ran his thumb over your lips. “It's our secret, okay?”

You nodded. He nodded back at you, stood up, and left you alone with your thoughts.

***

Arthur walked back to his room, feeling immensely gratified. No one knew about his depraved cravings, and he intended to keep it that way. And he always left his partners satisfied anyway, so they never spilled his secret.

***

The next morning as you left your room, Arthur was there, standing next to your door.

“I won't say anything,” you whispered. He nodded, and fell in step beside you. It was his last day; your new permanent guard was to show up this afternoon, so you decided to go take a walk in the park today.

You let the maid, no, Mrs Miller, know that you were heading out to the park for the morning. You called her by her name, told her you were thankful for all her help this week, and she smiled at you. That was nice.

Thomas drove the coach over to the park, and you thanked him for the drive, noting his pleasantly surprised look when you said it. It made you feel warm inside, and you were surprised by yourself.

“So, feelin’ kinder today?”

The two of you had walked around for five minutes before he finally spoke.

“Yes. It's… different,” you said thoughtfully. “It's nice.”

Arthur chuckled. “Yep.”

You turned to stand in front of him. “I've learned a few things about myself. Thanks to you.”

He shrugged. “Not sure I did anything worth thanking me for.”

Smiling at him, you laughed. It was the first time he had heard you or seen you this happy. It had been a long time since you laughed like this.

“I had a long think last night after you left. I need to be more respectful, and others will respond in kind.”

“You only now just figured this out?”

“I think I was too wrapped up in my own head to see outside.” You stepped a bit closer to him, but not any closer than etiquette allowed. “Last night was… freeing, in a way.”

Arthur shrugged.

“So thank you,” you said as you turned and started walking along the park path again. “I'll never forget it.”

You just heard him softly laughing behind you.

***

Arthur packed up his bag and slung it over his shoulder. It was a crazy week. He walked down the steps and exited the front door, seeing her waiting for him. Beyond her, he saw a man exit the coach. Clearly the new guard.

He walked past her, but not before whispering in her ear, “remember my lesson, sugar.” He grinned when he saw her blush and smile back at him, and he nodded at her before walking out the gate. He noted the way the new guard had been watching their whole exchange, and decided he didn't give a fuck.

The new guard assessed him, judged him, and dismissed him in a second. Handing him a stack of bills, he said, “For your help this week.”

Arthur counted the cash and shoved the stack into his satchel.

“Thanks,” he said, and walked towards the stable to get his horse and head back to camp.

He'd have to thank Hosea for the job. After all, he got an extra reward that he'd never tell anyone about.

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End Notes: Was it good? Needed work? Too repetitive? Please let me know. Trying new formats always has consequences...

Also I was supposed to tag @anniesburg because I was told to?

[samuelfields]

Working From Home: The Essential Beginner’s Guide (with scripts)

Here at IWT, we are big believers in working from home. In fact, our entire company works remotely.

That’s why I wrote an entire free Ultimate Guide to Working From Home to help anyone who wants to work remotely:

Convince their boss to let them telecommute

Find a new work from home job (and get hired for it)

Start freelancing online on the side (or go full-time doing it)

Or start an online business that allows them to work anywhere in the world

This blog post covers a lot of the most important points, but I dive much deeper in my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home, so make sure you grab the free PDF.

Let’s get started.

How to get started working from home

Imagine this scenario 6 months from now:

You stroll into your boss’s office one morning and hand over your two weeks’ notice.

But he says, “Wait, we’ll bump your salary 20% AND give you a corner office.”

“Sorry, I can’t do it,” you tell him.

“25% more?”

Nope.

“I’m flattered by the offer, but I’m going to have to pass,” you say.

And of course, you found a new job that offers benefits that you can’t put a price on.

The freedom from commutes and evening runs to the dry cleaner. The choice to live wherever you want. And the flexibility to control your own hours.

You’re going to be working from home.

This isn’t something that “other people” do. Forbes reported that one in five Americans now work from home. And that number is expected to rise in the next few years.

Who are these lucky folks who get to work from home?

They’re people on payroll with a company — everyone from assistants to managers and even executives

They’re freelancers with skills that are in high demand

And they’re business owners who make tens, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with nothing but a laptop and internet connection

They’re the new class of professionals who define success as doing what you want, from wherever you want, and on your own terms.

But it’s not all about lifestyle. It can be a great move for everyone involved.

According to Stanford Business School, people who work from home are not only happier, they’re more productive, too.

I’ve put together this blog post to explore all the options you have, and what it takes to pull them off.

I’ll even show you the technology, tools, and skills you’ll need so that nobody will even realize you’ve left the building.

Who am I?

I’m Ramit Sethi, the New York Times best-selling author and founder of GrowthLab and I Will Teach You To Be Rich — a business that I grew from a dorm-room blog into a multimillion-dollar online business with over 30,000 paying customers around the world.

One of my personal philosophies has always been flexibility. I love going to the gym in the middle of the day when it’s not crowded. And I love meeting up with friends for a long lunch whenever they’re in New York.

So when I started to hire employees, I wanted to give them the flexibility to work from home, on their own schedule, from wherever they are in the world.

In fact, one of my employees wanted to move to Paris, and we supported it 100%.

Not setting up a central command center and letting my employees work from home has been one of the best decisions I’ve made.

Not only is everyone happier and more productive, but we also get to recruit people who are the best at what they do since we’re not limited to geography.

I’m thrilled to share everything with you today.

4 Essential Skills For Working From Home

Anyone who ever tells people they work from home will often hear, “Wow! I could never do that.” And it’s true, it takes discipline to get up, log in to your computer, and work when nobody is standing over your shoulder and directing you. Distractions attempt to grab you from every direction.

The La-Z-Boy recliner you thought would be awesome to type your weekly reports from becomes a sinkhole for your productivity.

And once word gets out that you’re home all the time, friends and family start to ask if you “could do them a favor in the middle of the day.”

Which is why, if you want to successfully work from home and maintain a healthy work-life balance, you need to declare war on distractions.

In this section, I want to talk about the 4 skills you need to consistently produce great work no matter what industry you’re in.

Remote Work Essential Skill #1: Master working in short bursts

Working from home means that nobody is looking over your shoulder anymore. You don’t have to pull up a random Excel spreadsheet whenever someone walks by to make it look like you’re working and not checking Facebook.

As long as you get your work done, you can free up time to tend to other things. Heck, my team can walk their dogs and pick their kids up from school without asking anyone for permission. Because I know they’re on top of their work.

The best way to be productive is to work in short sprints — not long, drawn-out marathon sessions.

My friend Chris Yeh is a Harvard MBA. He works a demanding full-time job, teaches at Stanford, writes for various publications, advises startups, and still manages to make time for his family.

Did you get tired just from reading that? Watch and learn how he pulls it off with the Pomodoro Technique.

Remote Work Essential Skill #2: Stick to project deadlines and due dates

According to my friend and bestselling author Tim Ferriss:

“Most people fail at new year resolutions because there is no consequence. If you don’t go to work, you’ll lose your job. But if you don’t stick to your diet, there’s no consequence — other than staying fat.”

The solution to finish everything you start?

Hold yourself accountable.

Tim’s favorite way of doing this is by using a website called stickK.

Go to stickK.com

Once you sign up, you can make a commitment contract: “I will nail the project deadline.” Then, if you don’t, stickK will take your money and donate it to a charity you despise.

You can also invite friends or coworkers to referee your progress and make things more fun.

This is a great way to stay on track for work projects when the living room recliner is calling your name for nap time.

Remote Work Essential Skill #3: Make small changes for massive results

It’s much harder to shut down for the day when your “office” is where you live. There’s no night-time cleaning crew that comes to empty out the trash to signal that you’ve been burning the midnight oil.

You have to decide when to call it quits for the day. Because sooner or later, trying to jam in another task at the end of the day can rob you of your sanity.

Which is why it’s important to make stepping away from your desk a regular habit. Whether it’s a short walk, a trip to the gym, or taking an afternoon yoga class, exercise can help keep your mind sharp when you work from home. It also helps you strike the perfect work-life balance.

Charles Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit, built a healthy eating habit while working for The New York Times. His approach was unconventional in that it started with chocolate.

Yes, you read that correctly. Chocolate triggers reward centers in your brain and makes you want to do things you normally procrastinate on.

And you can use the same exact principle to make exercise a habit. Watch the video below to see how you can put it into action as you work from home.

Ready for more great advice on working from home? Download your FREE copy of my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home now!

Remote Work Essential Skill #4: Manage your emails

Email is a great tool. But it can suck up the most productive hours of your day if you’re not careful. And once you start working from home, you’ll get more and more messages since people can’t stop by your desk to ask questions.

Some of them will be urgent and important, most of them won’t be. It’s your job to make the call. Luckily, since I get thousands of emails a day — and yes, I read all of them — I can give you some advice.

HOW TO PUT YOUR EMAIL ON AUTOPILOT

My goal is to not answer emails. Instead, I think of email as a tool.

This is where so many Inbox Zero people go wrong. The goal is not zero emails in your inbox — it’s actually getting the right things done.

I don’t give a damn if I end the day with zero unread emails or 350. I only care about getting the right things done.

One of the ways I do that is to stop waiting on responses, and instead systematize follow-ups so I don’t have to remember to do them.

For example, if I send an email about a project but I can’t proceed until I get a response from somebody else, I need to make sure I stay on top of it.

So I use SaneBox to automatically remind when I need to send a follow-up email.

It looks like this:

An example of using SaneBox to send me a reminder to follow up in 2 days.

I also use it to automatically elevate important emails to the top of my inbox. Others get de-emphasized and I can read them later.

THE EXACT SCRIPT TO SET UP A MEETING AND MINIMIZE BACK AND FORTH EMAILS

Talking on the phone to set up meetings only takes a few seconds. But if you use that same conversation framework on email, you’ll create a long thread of messages, waste time, and be a nuisance for everyone involved.

There’s a better way.

I like to have canned scripts for the most common situations I’ll encounter. That way, I can read an email, mentally categorize it, and reach into my vault of scripts to select the best response.

Here’s one I use to set up meetings that saves me hours of back and forth every year.

How to convince your boss to let you work from home

Your current job might be the best way to embark on your new telecommuting lifestyle. Even if it’s not a common practice at your company.

But you can’t just stand up on your desk one Friday afternoon and declare, “From now on, I will work from home!”

Everyone will think you’re a weirdo, and building security will usher you out of the office.

The key is this: If you’re great at what you do, you have A LOT more leverage than you think.

To put everything into perspective, you’re not just a body they hired. They had to screen hundreds of resumes, conduct 30+ phone interviews, and then invite a handful of people to meet in person.

Many people forget this.

So if your manager gives you a glowing performance review, it’s the perfect time to bring up the idea of a work-from-home job.

Don’t give any ultimatums. That can lead to confrontation, which never works out well.

Instead, offer to do it on a trial basis. You can use what I call the ARMS techniques to make it easy to get your boss’s stamp of approval.

Those four letters stand for:

Here’s how it works in action:

Later that day…

Boss: So I talked over your proposal with a few people, and we agree. It could be a good move for the company. You can start next week. Let me know what days you want to work from home.

Big Win!

The important thing to remember is that you’re proving the concept for now. Once your boss agrees to this small request, and it works out well, they’re more likely to agree to you working from home regularly.

If your company is set in their ways, and you’re set on working from home, don’t worry. There are tons of work-from-home jobs that you can apply for now.

How to land a job working from home and ask for double the average salary

If you look at the average salary for many work from home jobs, you might think they are kind of low. But those are the AVERAGE income.

The truth is, if you’re a top performer, you can find the best jobs with awesome perks, and ask for MUCH more than you think possible.

Many of my students have done it.

What do they know about getting their dream jobs that you’re in the dark about?

They know The Briefcase Technique, my proven strategy for getting a job you love at a great salary.

Ready for more great advice on working from home? Download your FREE copy of my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home now!

Case Study: How IWT works completely remotely with dozens of employees in 23 states and 6 countries

IWT started as a personal finance blog that I launched from my Stanford dorm room. Over the years, as I got more readers, I realized that living a Rich Life is about more than just money. So I expanded into careers, freelancing, social skills, and online business.

This would’ve been impossible without hiring a team to help me. Early on, I made the decision to get the very best people I could find. I didn’t want to be limited to geography. So every position I post is open to anyone in the world.

We always get a flood of applications for any job opening. The competition is fierce. But for the people who make it through the hiring process, the work is challenging. And the perks are worth it.

That’s the benefit of being a top performer. YOU get to call the shots and decide how you want to live as long as you keep producing results for the company.

As of writing this, we have dozens of employees in 23 states and 6 countries.

We have former professional athletes on the team. People who used to manage Fortune 500 companies. Marketers and copywriters who’ve worked behind the scenes on multimillion-dollar launches.

Even entrepreneurs who never have to work for anyone else again if they wanted have dropped everything they’re doing to join our team.

Had I rented office space in some New York City high rise, I would’ve never been able to attract this caliber of talent.

What IWT team members LOVE about their work from home careers

If you’re great at what you do, we might have a spot for you.

Working from home by starting an online business

So far, we’ve covered working remotely for an employer and freelancing online for clients. For some of you, that might be your Rich Life.

But there is another option:

Starting an online business that allows you to work from home (or anywhere in the world). That’s what I did. And now I work as much (or little) as I want.

I can spend a 6-week vacation every year traveling with my wife while my business runs on autopilot.

If you want true freedom with when, where and how much you work (and to be able to make a ton of money too), I believe there’s no better solution than starting your own business.

That’s why I put together a free PDF with 30 proven online business ideas you can copy. Just enter your email below.

Then, let me know what your biggest takeaway from this post was in the comments below.

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Working From Home: The Essential Beginner’s Guide (with scripts)

Here at IWT, we are big believers in working from home. In fact, our entire company works remotely.

That’s why I wrote an entire free Ultimate Guide to Working From Home to help anyone who wants to work remotely:

Convince their boss to let them telecommute

Find a new work from home job (and get hired for it)

Start freelancing online on the side (or go full-time doing it)

Or start an online business that allows them to work anywhere in the world

This blog post covers a lot of the most important points, but I dive much deeper in my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home, so make sure you grab the free PDF.

Let’s get started.

How to get started working from home

Imagine this scenario 6 months from now:

You stroll into your boss’s office one morning and hand over your two weeks’ notice.

But he says, “Wait, we’ll bump your salary 20% AND give you a corner office.”

“Sorry, I can’t do it,” you tell him.

“25% more?”

Nope.

“I’m flattered by the offer, but I’m going to have to pass,” you say.

And of course, you found a new job that offers benefits that you can’t put a price on.

The freedom from commutes and evening runs to the dry cleaner. The choice to live wherever you want. And the flexibility to control your own hours.

You’re going to be working from home.

This isn’t something that “other people” do. Forbes reported that one in five Americans now work from home. And that number is expected to rise in the next few years.

Who are these lucky folks who get to work from home?

They’re people on payroll with a company — everyone from assistants to managers and even executives

They’re freelancers with skills that are in high demand

And they’re business owners who make tens, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with nothing but a laptop and internet connection

They’re the new class of professionals who define success as doing what you want, from wherever you want, and on your own terms.

But it’s not all about lifestyle. It can be a great move for everyone involved.

According to Stanford Business School, people who work from home are not only happier, they’re more productive, too.

I’ve put together this blog post to explore all the options you have, and what it takes to pull them off.

I’ll even show you the technology, tools, and skills you’ll need so that nobody will even realize you’ve left the building.

Who am I?

I’m Ramit Sethi, the New York Times best-selling author and founder of GrowthLab and I Will Teach You To Be Rich — a business that I grew from a dorm-room blog into a multimillion-dollar online business with over 30,000 paying customers around the world.

One of my personal philosophies has always been flexibility. I love going to the gym in the middle of the day when it’s not crowded. And I love meeting up with friends for a long lunch whenever they’re in New York.

So when I started to hire employees, I wanted to give them the flexibility to work from home, on their own schedule, from wherever they are in the world.

In fact, one of my employees wanted to move to Paris, and we supported it 100%.

Not setting up a central command center and letting my employees work from home has been one of the best decisions I’ve made.

Not only is everyone happier and more productive, but we also get to recruit people who are the best at what they do since we’re not limited to geography.

I’m thrilled to share everything with you today.

4 Essential Skills For Working From Home

Anyone who ever tells people they work from home will often hear, “Wow! I could never do that.” And it’s true, it takes discipline to get up, log in to your computer, and work when nobody is standing over your shoulder and directing you. Distractions attempt to grab you from every direction.

The La-Z-Boy recliner you thought would be awesome to type your weekly reports from becomes a sinkhole for your productivity.

And once word gets out that you’re home all the time, friends and family start to ask if you “could do them a favor in the middle of the day.”

Which is why, if you want to successfully work from home and maintain a healthy work-life balance, you need to declare war on distractions.

In this section, I want to talk about the 4 skills you need to consistently produce great work no matter what industry you’re in.

Remote Work Essential Skill #1: Master working in short bursts

Working from home means that nobody is looking over your shoulder anymore. You don’t have to pull up a random Excel spreadsheet whenever someone walks by to make it look like you’re working and not checking Facebook.

As long as you get your work done, you can free up time to tend to other things. Heck, my team can walk their dogs and pick their kids up from school without asking anyone for permission. Because I know they’re on top of their work.

The best way to be productive is to work in short sprints — not long, drawn-out marathon sessions.

My friend Chris Yeh is a Harvard MBA. He works a demanding full-time job, teaches at Stanford, writes for various publications, advises startups, and still manages to make time for his family.

Did you get tired just from reading that? Watch and learn how he pulls it off with the Pomodoro Technique.

Remote Work Essential Skill #2: Stick to project deadlines and due dates

According to my friend and bestselling author Tim Ferriss:

“Most people fail at new year resolutions because there is no consequence. If you don’t go to work, you’ll lose your job. But if you don’t stick to your diet, there’s no consequence — other than staying fat.”

The solution to finish everything you start?

Hold yourself accountable.

Tim’s favorite way of doing this is by using a website called stickK.

Go to stickK.com

Once you sign up, you can make a commitment contract: “I will nail the project deadline.” Then, if you don’t, stickK will take your money and donate it to a charity you despise.

You can also invite friends or coworkers to referee your progress and make things more fun.

This is a great way to stay on track for work projects when the living room recliner is calling your name for nap time.

Remote Work Essential Skill #3: Make small changes for massive results

It’s much harder to shut down for the day when your “office” is where you live. There’s no night-time cleaning crew that comes to empty out the trash to signal that you’ve been burning the midnight oil.

You have to decide when to call it quits for the day. Because sooner or later, trying to jam in another task at the end of the day can rob you of your sanity.

Which is why it’s important to make stepping away from your desk a regular habit. Whether it’s a short walk, a trip to the gym, or taking an afternoon yoga class, exercise can help keep your mind sharp when you work from home. It also helps you strike the perfect work-life balance.

Charles Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit, built a healthy eating habit while working for The New York Times. His approach was unconventional in that it started with chocolate.

Yes, you read that correctly. Chocolate triggers reward centers in your brain and makes you want to do things you normally procrastinate on.

And you can use the same exact principle to make exercise a habit. Watch the video below to see how you can put it into action as you work from home.

Ready for more great advice on working from home? Download your FREE copy of my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home now!

Remote Work Essential Skill #4: Manage your emails

Email is a great tool. But it can suck up the most productive hours of your day if you’re not careful. And once you start working from home, you’ll get more and more messages since people can’t stop by your desk to ask questions.

Some of them will be urgent and important, most of them won’t be. It’s your job to make the call. Luckily, since I get thousands of emails a day — and yes, I read all of them — I can give you some advice.

HOW TO PUT YOUR EMAIL ON AUTOPILOT

My goal is to not answer emails. Instead, I think of email as a tool.

This is where so many Inbox Zero people go wrong. The goal is not zero emails in your inbox — it’s actually getting the right things done.

I don’t give a damn if I end the day with zero unread emails or 350. I only care about getting the right things done.

One of the ways I do that is to stop waiting on responses, and instead systematize follow-ups so I don’t have to remember to do them.

For example, if I send an email about a project but I can’t proceed until I get a response from somebody else, I need to make sure I stay on top of it.

So I use SaneBox to automatically remind when I need to send a follow-up email.

It looks like this:

An example of using SaneBox to send me a reminder to follow up in 2 days.

I also use it to automatically elevate important emails to the top of my inbox. Others get de-emphasized and I can read them later.

THE EXACT SCRIPT TO SET UP A MEETING AND MINIMIZE BACK AND FORTH EMAILS

Talking on the phone to set up meetings only takes a few seconds. But if you use that same conversation framework on email, you’ll create a long thread of messages, waste time, and be a nuisance for everyone involved.

There’s a better way.

I like to have canned scripts for the most common situations I’ll encounter. That way, I can read an email, mentally categorize it, and reach into my vault of scripts to select the best response.

Here’s one I use to set up meetings that saves me hours of back and forth every year.

How to convince your boss to let you work from home

Your current job might be the best way to embark on your new telecommuting lifestyle. Even if it’s not a common practice at your company.

But you can’t just stand up on your desk one Friday afternoon and declare, “From now on, I will work from home!”

Everyone will think you’re a weirdo, and building security will usher you out of the office.

The key is this: If you’re great at what you do, you have A LOT more leverage than you think.

To put everything into perspective, you’re not just a body they hired. They had to screen hundreds of resumes, conduct 30+ phone interviews, and then invite a handful of people to meet in person.

Many people forget this.

So if your manager gives you a glowing performance review, it’s the perfect time to bring up the idea of a work-from-home job.

Don’t give any ultimatums. That can lead to confrontation, which never works out well.

Instead, offer to do it on a trial basis. You can use what I call the ARMS techniques to make it easy to get your boss’s stamp of approval.

Those four letters stand for:

Here’s how it works in action:

Later that day…

Boss: So I talked over your proposal with a few people, and we agree. It could be a good move for the company. You can start next week. Let me know what days you want to work from home.

Big Win!

The important thing to remember is that you’re proving the concept for now. Once your boss agrees to this small request, and it works out well, they’re more likely to agree to you working from home regularly.

If your company is set in their ways, and you’re set on working from home, don’t worry. There are tons of work-from-home jobs that you can apply for now.

How to land a job working from home and ask for double the average salary

If you look at the average salary for many work from home jobs, you might think they are kind of low. But those are the AVERAGE income.

The truth is, if you’re a top performer, you can find the best jobs with awesome perks, and ask for MUCH more than you think possible.

Many of my students have done it.

What do they know about getting their dream jobs that you’re in the dark about?

They know The Briefcase Technique, my proven strategy for getting a job you love at a great salary.

Ready for more great advice on working from home? Download your FREE copy of my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home now!

Case Study: How IWT works completely remotely with dozens of employees in 23 states and 6 countries

IWT started as a personal finance blog that I launched from my Stanford dorm room. Over the years, as I got more readers, I realized that living a Rich Life is about more than just money. So I expanded into careers, freelancing, social skills, and online business.

This would’ve been impossible without hiring a team to help me. Early on, I made the decision to get the very best people I could find. I didn’t want to be limited to geography. So every position I post is open to anyone in the world.

We always get a flood of applications for any job opening. The competition is fierce. But for the people who make it through the hiring process, the work is challenging. And the perks are worth it.

That’s the benefit of being a top performer. YOU get to call the shots and decide how you want to live as long as you keep producing results for the company.

As of writing this, we have dozens of employees in 23 states and 6 countries.

We have former professional athletes on the team. People who used to manage Fortune 500 companies. Marketers and copywriters who’ve worked behind the scenes on multimillion-dollar launches.

Even entrepreneurs who never have to work for anyone else again if they wanted have dropped everything they’re doing to join our team.

Had I rented office space in some New York City high rise, I would’ve never been able to attract this caliber of talent.

What IWT team members LOVE about their work from home careers

If you’re great at what you do, we might have a spot for you.

Working from home by starting an online business

So far, we’ve covered working remotely for an employer and freelancing online for clients. For some of you, that might be your Rich Life.

But there is another option:

Starting an online business that allows you to work from home (or anywhere in the world). That’s what I did. And now I work as much (or little) as I want.

I can spend a 6-week vacation every year traveling with my wife while my business runs on autopilot.

If you want true freedom with when, where and how much you work (and to be able to make a ton of money too), I believe there’s no better solution than starting your own business.

That’s why I put together a free PDF with 30 proven online business ideas you can copy. Just enter your email below.

Then, let me know what your biggest takeaway from this post was in the comments below.

Working From Home: The Essential Beginner’s Guide (with scripts) is a post from: I Will Teach You To Be Rich.

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Working From Home: The Essential Beginner’s Guide (with scripts)

Here at IWT, we are big believers in working from home. In fact, our entire company works remotely.

That’s why I wrote an entire free Ultimate Guide to Working From Home to help anyone who wants to work remotely:

Convince their boss to let them telecommute

Find a new work from home job (and get hired for it)

Start freelancing online on the side (or go full-time doing it)

Or start an online business that allows them to work anywhere in the world

This blog post covers a lot of the most important points, but I dive much deeper in my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home, so make sure you grab the free PDF.

Let’s get started.

How to get started working from home

Imagine this scenario 6 months from now:

You stroll into your boss’s office one morning and hand over your two weeks’ notice.

But he says, “Wait, we’ll bump your salary 20% AND give you a corner office.”

“Sorry, I can’t do it,” you tell him.

“25% more?”

Nope.

“I’m flattered by the offer, but I’m going to have to pass,” you say.

And of course, you found a new job that offers benefits that you can’t put a price on.

The freedom from commutes and evening runs to the dry cleaner. The choice to live wherever you want. And the flexibility to control your own hours.

You’re going to be working from home.

This isn’t something that “other people” do. Forbes reported that one in five Americans now work from home. And that number is expected to rise in the next few years.

Who are these lucky folks who get to work from home?

They’re people on payroll with a company — everyone from assistants to managers and even executives

They’re freelancers with skills that are in high demand

And they’re business owners who make tens, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with nothing but a laptop and internet connection

They’re the new class of professionals who define success as doing what you want, from wherever you want, and on your own terms.

But it’s not all about lifestyle. It can be a great move for everyone involved.

According to Stanford Business School, people who work from home are not only happier, they’re more productive, too.

I’ve put together this blog post to explore all the options you have, and what it takes to pull them off.

I’ll even show you the technology, tools, and skills you’ll need so that nobody will even realize you’ve left the building.

Who am I?

I’m Ramit Sethi, the New York Times best-selling author and founder of GrowthLab and I Will Teach You To Be Rich — a business that I grew from a dorm-room blog into a multimillion-dollar online business with over 30,000 paying customers around the world.

One of my personal philosophies has always been flexibility. I love going to the gym in the middle of the day when it’s not crowded. And I love meeting up with friends for a long lunch whenever they’re in New York.

So when I started to hire employees, I wanted to give them the flexibility to work from home, on their own schedule, from wherever they are in the world.

In fact, one of my employees wanted to move to Paris, and we supported it 100%.

Not setting up a central command center and letting my employees work from home has been one of the best decisions I’ve made.

Not only is everyone happier and more productive, but we also get to recruit people who are the best at what they do since we’re not limited to geography.

I’m thrilled to share everything with you today.

4 Essential Skills For Working From Home

Anyone who ever tells people they work from home will often hear, “Wow! I could never do that.” And it’s true, it takes discipline to get up, log in to your computer, and work when nobody is standing over your shoulder and directing you. Distractions attempt to grab you from every direction.

The La-Z-Boy recliner you thought would be awesome to type your weekly reports from becomes a sinkhole for your productivity.

And once word gets out that you’re home all the time, friends and family start to ask if you “could do them a favor in the middle of the day.”

Which is why, if you want to successfully work from home and maintain a healthy work-life balance, you need to declare war on distractions.

In this section, I want to talk about the 4 skills you need to consistently produce great work no matter what industry you’re in.

Remote Work Essential Skill #1: Master working in short bursts

Working from home means that nobody is looking over your shoulder anymore. You don’t have to pull up a random Excel spreadsheet whenever someone walks by to make it look like you’re working and not checking Facebook.

As long as you get your work done, you can free up time to tend to other things. Heck, my team can walk their dogs and pick their kids up from school without asking anyone for permission. Because I know they’re on top of their work.

The best way to be productive is to work in short sprints — not long, drawn-out marathon sessions.

My friend Chris Yeh is a Harvard MBA. He works a demanding full-time job, teaches at Stanford, writes for various publications, advises startups, and still manages to make time for his family.

Did you get tired just from reading that? Watch and learn how he pulls it off with the Pomodoro Technique.

Remote Work Essential Skill #2: Stick to project deadlines and due dates

According to my friend and bestselling author Tim Ferriss:

“Most people fail at new year resolutions because there is no consequence. If you don’t go to work, you’ll lose your job. But if you don’t stick to your diet, there’s no consequence — other than staying fat.”

The solution to finish everything you start?

Hold yourself accountable.

Tim’s favorite way of doing this is by using a website called stickK.

Go to stickK.com

Once you sign up, you can make a commitment contract: “I will nail the project deadline.” Then, if you don’t, stickK will take your money and donate it to a charity you despise.

You can also invite friends or coworkers to referee your progress and make things more fun.

This is a great way to stay on track for work projects when the living room recliner is calling your name for nap time.

Remote Work Essential Skill #3: Make small changes for massive results

It’s much harder to shut down for the day when your “office” is where you live. There’s no night-time cleaning crew that comes to empty out the trash to signal that you’ve been burning the midnight oil.

You have to decide when to call it quits for the day. Because sooner or later, trying to jam in another task at the end of the day can rob you of your sanity.

Which is why it’s important to make stepping away from your desk a regular habit. Whether it’s a short walk, a trip to the gym, or taking an afternoon yoga class, exercise can help keep your mind sharp when you work from home. It also helps you strike the perfect work-life balance.

Charles Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit, built a healthy eating habit while working for The New York Times. His approach was unconventional in that it started with chocolate.

Yes, you read that correctly. Chocolate triggers reward centers in your brain and makes you want to do things you normally procrastinate on.

And you can use the same exact principle to make exercise a habit. Watch the video below to see how you can put it into action as you work from home.

Ready for more great advice on working from home? Download your FREE copy of my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home now!

Remote Work Essential Skill #4: Manage your emails

Email is a great tool. But it can suck up the most productive hours of your day if you’re not careful. And once you start working from home, you’ll get more and more messages since people can’t stop by your desk to ask questions.

Some of them will be urgent and important, most of them won’t be. It’s your job to make the call. Luckily, since I get thousands of emails a day — and yes, I read all of them — I can give you some advice.

HOW TO PUT YOUR EMAIL ON AUTOPILOT

My goal is to not answer emails. Instead, I think of email as a tool.

This is where so many Inbox Zero people go wrong. The goal is not zero emails in your inbox — it’s actually getting the right things done.

I don’t give a damn if I end the day with zero unread emails or 350. I only care about getting the right things done.

One of the ways I do that is to stop waiting on responses, and instead systematize follow-ups so I don’t have to remember to do them.

For example, if I send an email about a project but I can’t proceed until I get a response from somebody else, I need to make sure I stay on top of it.

So I use SaneBox to automatically remind when I need to send a follow-up email.

It looks like this:

An example of using SaneBox to send me a reminder to follow up in 2 days.

I also use it to automatically elevate important emails to the top of my inbox. Others get de-emphasized and I can read them later.

THE EXACT SCRIPT TO SET UP A MEETING AND MINIMIZE BACK AND FORTH EMAILS

Talking on the phone to set up meetings only takes a few seconds. But if you use that same conversation framework on email, you’ll create a long thread of messages, waste time, and be a nuisance for everyone involved.

There’s a better way.

I like to have canned scripts for the most common situations I’ll encounter. That way, I can read an email, mentally categorize it, and reach into my vault of scripts to select the best response.

Here’s one I use to set up meetings that saves me hours of back and forth every year.

How to convince your boss to let you work from home

Your current job might be the best way to embark on your new telecommuting lifestyle. Even if it’s not a common practice at your company.

But you can’t just stand up on your desk one Friday afternoon and declare, “From now on, I will work from home!”

Everyone will think you’re a weirdo, and building security will usher you out of the office.

The key is this: If you’re great at what you do, you have A LOT more leverage than you think.

To put everything into perspective, you’re not just a body they hired. They had to screen hundreds of resumes, conduct 30+ phone interviews, and then invite a handful of people to meet in person.

Many people forget this.

So if your manager gives you a glowing performance review, it’s the perfect time to bring up the idea of a work-from-home job.

Don’t give any ultimatums. That can lead to confrontation, which never works out well.

Instead, offer to do it on a trial basis. You can use what I call the ARMS techniques to make it easy to get your boss’s stamp of approval.

Those four letters stand for:

Here’s how it works in action:

Later that day…

Boss: So I talked over your proposal with a few people, and we agree. It could be a good move for the company. You can start next week. Let me know what days you want to work from home.

Big Win!

The important thing to remember is that you’re proving the concept for now. Once your boss agrees to this small request, and it works out well, they’re more likely to agree to you working from home regularly.

If your company is set in their ways, and you’re set on working from home, don’t worry. There are tons of work-from-home jobs that you can apply for now.

How to land a job working from home and ask for double the average salary

If you look at the average salary for many work from home jobs, you might think they are kind of low. But those are the AVERAGE income.

The truth is, if you’re a top performer, you can find the best jobs with awesome perks, and ask for MUCH more than you think possible.

Many of my students have done it.

What do they know about getting their dream jobs that you’re in the dark about?

They know The Briefcase Technique, my proven strategy for getting a job you love at a great salary.

Ready for more great advice on working from home? Download your FREE copy of my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home now!

Case Study: How IWT works completely remotely with dozens of employees in 23 states and 6 countries

IWT started as a personal finance blog that I launched from my Stanford dorm room. Over the years, as I got more readers, I realized that living a Rich Life is about more than just money. So I expanded into careers, freelancing, social skills, and online business.

This would’ve been impossible without hiring a team to help me. Early on, I made the decision to get the very best people I could find. I didn’t want to be limited to geography. So every position I post is open to anyone in the world.

We always get a flood of applications for any job opening. The competition is fierce. But for the people who make it through the hiring process, the work is challenging. And the perks are worth it.

That’s the benefit of being a top performer. YOU get to call the shots and decide how you want to live as long as you keep producing results for the company.

As of writing this, we have dozens of employees in 23 states and 6 countries.

We have former professional athletes on the team. People who used to manage Fortune 500 companies. Marketers and copywriters who’ve worked behind the scenes on multimillion-dollar launches.

Even entrepreneurs who never have to work for anyone else again if they wanted have dropped everything they’re doing to join our team.

Had I rented office space in some New York City high rise, I would’ve never been able to attract this caliber of talent.

What IWT team members LOVE about their work from home careers

If you’re great at what you do, we might have a spot for you.

Working from home by starting an online business

So far, we’ve covered working remotely for an employer and freelancing online for clients. For some of you, that might be your Rich Life.

But there is another option:

Starting an online business that allows you to work from home (or anywhere in the world). That’s what I did. And now I work as much (or little) as I want.

I can spend a 6-week vacation every year traveling with my wife while my business runs on autopilot.

If you want true freedom with when, where and how much you work (and to be able to make a ton of money too), I believe there’s no better solution than starting your own business.

That’s why I put together a free PDF with 30 proven online business ideas you can copy. Just enter your email below.

Then, let me know what your biggest takeaway from this post was in the comments below.

Working From Home: The Essential Beginner’s Guide (with scripts) is a post from: I Will Teach You To Be Rich.

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Working From Home: The Essential Beginner’s Guide (with scripts)

Here at IWT, we are big believers in working from home. In fact, our entire company works remotely.

That’s why I wrote an entire free Ultimate Guide to Working From Home to help anyone who wants to work remotely:

Convince their boss to let them telecommute

Find a new work from home job (and get hired for it)

Start freelancing online on the side (or go full-time doing it)

Or start an online business that allows them to work anywhere in the world

This blog post covers a lot of the most important points, but I dive much deeper in my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home, so make sure you grab the free PDF.

Let’s get started.

How to get started working from home

Imagine this scenario 6 months from now:

You stroll into your boss’s office one morning and hand over your two weeks’ notice.

But he says, “Wait, we’ll bump your salary 20% AND give you a corner office.”

“Sorry, I can’t do it,” you tell him.

“25% more?”

Nope.

“I’m flattered by the offer, but I’m going to have to pass,” you say.

And of course, you found a new job that offers benefits that you can’t put a price on.

The freedom from commutes and evening runs to the dry cleaner. The choice to live wherever you want. And the flexibility to control your own hours.

You’re going to be working from home.

This isn’t something that “other people” do. Forbes reported that one in five Americans now work from home. And that number is expected to rise in the next few years.

Who are these lucky folks who get to work from home?

They’re people on payroll with a company — everyone from assistants to managers and even executives

They’re freelancers with skills that are in high demand

And they’re business owners who make tens, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with nothing but a laptop and internet connection

They’re the new class of professionals who define success as doing what you want, from wherever you want, and on your own terms.

But it’s not all about lifestyle. It can be a great move for everyone involved.

According to Stanford Business School, people who work from home are not only happier, they’re more productive, too.

I’ve put together this blog post to explore all the options you have, and what it takes to pull them off.

I’ll even show you the technology, tools, and skills you’ll need so that nobody will even realize you’ve left the building.

Who am I?

I’m Ramit Sethi, the New York Times best-selling author and founder of GrowthLab and I Will Teach You To Be Rich — a business that I grew from a dorm-room blog into a multimillion-dollar online business with over 30,000 paying customers around the world.

One of my personal philosophies has always been flexibility. I love going to the gym in the middle of the day when it’s not crowded. And I love meeting up with friends for a long lunch whenever they’re in New York.

So when I started to hire employees, I wanted to give them the flexibility to work from home, on their own schedule, from wherever they are in the world.

In fact, one of my employees wanted to move to Paris, and we supported it 100%.

Not setting up a central command center and letting my employees work from home has been one of the best decisions I’ve made.

Not only is everyone happier and more productive, but we also get to recruit people who are the best at what they do since we’re not limited to geography.

I’m thrilled to share everything with you today.

4 Essential Skills For Working From Home

Anyone who ever tells people they work from home will often hear, “Wow! I could never do that.” And it’s true, it takes discipline to get up, log in to your computer, and work when nobody is standing over your shoulder and directing you. Distractions attempt to grab you from every direction.

The La-Z-Boy recliner you thought would be awesome to type your weekly reports from becomes a sinkhole for your productivity.

And once word gets out that you’re home all the time, friends and family start to ask if you “could do them a favor in the middle of the day.”

Which is why, if you want to successfully work from home and maintain a healthy work-life balance, you need to declare war on distractions.

In this section, I want to talk about the 4 skills you need to consistently produce great work no matter what industry you’re in.

Remote Work Essential Skill #1: Master working in short bursts

Working from home means that nobody is looking over your shoulder anymore. You don’t have to pull up a random Excel spreadsheet whenever someone walks by to make it look like you’re working and not checking Facebook.

As long as you get your work done, you can free up time to tend to other things. Heck, my team can walk their dogs and pick their kids up from school without asking anyone for permission. Because I know they’re on top of their work.

The best way to be productive is to work in short sprints — not long, drawn-out marathon sessions.

My friend Chris Yeh is a Harvard MBA. He works a demanding full-time job, teaches at Stanford, writes for various publications, advises startups, and still manages to make time for his family.

Did you get tired just from reading that? Watch and learn how he pulls it off with the Pomodoro Technique.

Remote Work Essential Skill #2: Stick to project deadlines and due dates

According to my friend and bestselling author Tim Ferriss:

“Most people fail at new year resolutions because there is no consequence. If you don’t go to work, you’ll lose your job. But if you don’t stick to your diet, there’s no consequence — other than staying fat.”

The solution to finish everything you start?

Hold yourself accountable.

Tim’s favorite way of doing this is by using a website called stickK.

Go to stickK.com

Once you sign up, you can make a commitment contract: “I will nail the project deadline.” Then, if you don’t, stickK will take your money and donate it to a charity you despise.

You can also invite friends or coworkers to referee your progress and make things more fun.

This is a great way to stay on track for work projects when the living room recliner is calling your name for nap time.

Remote Work Essential Skill #3: Make small changes for massive results

It’s much harder to shut down for the day when your “office” is where you live. There’s no night-time cleaning crew that comes to empty out the trash to signal that you’ve been burning the midnight oil.

You have to decide when to call it quits for the day. Because sooner or later, trying to jam in another task at the end of the day can rob you of your sanity.

Which is why it’s important to make stepping away from your desk a regular habit. Whether it’s a short walk, a trip to the gym, or taking an afternoon yoga class, exercise can help keep your mind sharp when you work from home. It also helps you strike the perfect work-life balance.

Charles Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit, built a healthy eating habit while working for The New York Times. His approach was unconventional in that it started with chocolate.

Yes, you read that correctly. Chocolate triggers reward centers in your brain and makes you want to do things you normally procrastinate on.

And you can use the same exact principle to make exercise a habit. Watch the video below to see how you can put it into action as you work from home.

Ready for more great advice on working from home? Download your FREE copy of my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home now!

Remote Work Essential Skill #4: Manage your emails

Email is a great tool. But it can suck up the most productive hours of your day if you’re not careful. And once you start working from home, you’ll get more and more messages since people can’t stop by your desk to ask questions.

Some of them will be urgent and important, most of them won’t be. It’s your job to make the call. Luckily, since I get thousands of emails a day — and yes, I read all of them — I can give you some advice.

HOW TO PUT YOUR EMAIL ON AUTOPILOT

My goal is to not answer emails. Instead, I think of email as a tool.

This is where so many Inbox Zero people go wrong. The goal is not zero emails in your inbox — it’s actually getting the right things done.

I don’t give a damn if I end the day with zero unread emails or 350. I only care about getting the right things done.

One of the ways I do that is to stop waiting on responses, and instead systematize follow-ups so I don’t have to remember to do them.

For example, if I send an email about a project but I can’t proceed until I get a response from somebody else, I need to make sure I stay on top of it.

So I use SaneBox to automatically remind when I need to send a follow-up email.

It looks like this:

An example of using SaneBox to send me a reminder to follow up in 2 days.

I also use it to automatically elevate important emails to the top of my inbox. Others get de-emphasized and I can read them later.

THE EXACT SCRIPT TO SET UP A MEETING AND MINIMIZE BACK AND FORTH EMAILS

Talking on the phone to set up meetings only takes a few seconds. But if you use that same conversation framework on email, you’ll create a long thread of messages, waste time, and be a nuisance for everyone involved.

There’s a better way.

I like to have canned scripts for the most common situations I’ll encounter. That way, I can read an email, mentally categorize it, and reach into my vault of scripts to select the best response.

Here’s one I use to set up meetings that saves me hours of back and forth every year.

How to convince your boss to let you work from home

Your current job might be the best way to embark on your new telecommuting lifestyle. Even if it’s not a common practice at your company.

But you can’t just stand up on your desk one Friday afternoon and declare, “From now on, I will work from home!”

Everyone will think you’re a weirdo, and building security will usher you out of the office.

The key is this: If you’re great at what you do, you have A LOT more leverage than you think.

To put everything into perspective, you’re not just a body they hired. They had to screen hundreds of resumes, conduct 30+ phone interviews, and then invite a handful of people to meet in person.

Many people forget this.

So if your manager gives you a glowing performance review, it’s the perfect time to bring up the idea of a work-from-home job.

Don’t give any ultimatums. That can lead to confrontation, which never works out well.

Instead, offer to do it on a trial basis. You can use what I call the ARMS techniques to make it easy to get your boss’s stamp of approval.

Those four letters stand for:

Here’s how it works in action:

Later that day…

Boss: So I talked over your proposal with a few people, and we agree. It could be a good move for the company. You can start next week. Let me know what days you want to work from home.

Big Win!

The important thing to remember is that you’re proving the concept for now. Once your boss agrees to this small request, and it works out well, they’re more likely to agree to you working from home regularly.

If your company is set in their ways, and you’re set on working from home, don’t worry. There are tons of work-from-home jobs that you can apply for now.

How to land a job working from home and ask for double the average salary

If you look at the average salary for many work from home jobs, you might think they are kind of low. But those are the AVERAGE income.

The truth is, if you’re a top performer, you can find the best jobs with awesome perks, and ask for MUCH more than you think possible.

Many of my students have done it.

What do they know about getting their dream jobs that you’re in the dark about?

They know The Briefcase Technique, my proven strategy for getting a job you love at a great salary.

Ready for more great advice on working from home? Download your FREE copy of my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home now!

Case Study: How IWT works completely remotely with dozens of employees in 23 states and 6 countries

IWT started as a personal finance blog that I launched from my Stanford dorm room. Over the years, as I got more readers, I realized that living a Rich Life is about more than just money. So I expanded into careers, freelancing, social skills, and online business.

This would’ve been impossible without hiring a team to help me. Early on, I made the decision to get the very best people I could find. I didn’t want to be limited to geography. So every position I post is open to anyone in the world.

We always get a flood of applications for any job opening. The competition is fierce. But for the people who make it through the hiring process, the work is challenging. And the perks are worth it.

That’s the benefit of being a top performer. YOU get to call the shots and decide how you want to live as long as you keep producing results for the company.

As of writing this, we have dozens of employees in 23 states and 6 countries.

We have former professional athletes on the team. People who used to manage Fortune 500 companies. Marketers and copywriters who’ve worked behind the scenes on multimillion-dollar launches.

Even entrepreneurs who never have to work for anyone else again if they wanted have dropped everything they’re doing to join our team.

Had I rented office space in some New York City high rise, I would’ve never been able to attract this caliber of talent.

What IWT team members LOVE about their work from home careers

If you’re great at what you do, we might have a spot for you.

Working from home by starting an online business

So far, we’ve covered working remotely for an employer and freelancing online for clients. For some of you, that might be your Rich Life.

But there is another option:

Starting an online business that allows you to work from home (or anywhere in the world). That’s what I did. And now I work as much (or little) as I want.

I can spend a 6-week vacation every year traveling with my wife while my business runs on autopilot.

If you want true freedom with when, where and how much you work (and to be able to make a ton of money too), I believe there’s no better solution than starting your own business.

That’s why I put together a free PDF with 30 proven online business ideas you can copy. Just enter your email below.

Then, let me know what your biggest takeaway from this post was in the comments below.

Working From Home: The Essential Beginner’s Guide (with scripts) is a post from: I Will Teach You To Be Rich.

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Working From Home: The Essential Beginner’s Guide (with scripts)

Here at IWT, we are big believers in working from home. In fact, our entire company works remotely.

That’s why I wrote an entire free Ultimate Guide to Working From Home to help anyone who wants to work remotely:

Convince their boss to let them telecommute

Find a new work from home job (and get hired for it)

Start freelancing online on the side (or go full-time doing it)

Or start an online business that allows them to work anywhere in the world

This blog post covers a lot of the most important points, but I dive much deeper in my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home, so make sure you grab the free PDF.

Let’s get started.

How to get started working from home

Imagine this scenario 6 months from now:

You stroll into your boss’s office one morning and hand over your two weeks’ notice.

But he says, “Wait, we’ll bump your salary 20% AND give you a corner office.”

“Sorry, I can’t do it,” you tell him.

“25% more?”

Nope.

“I’m flattered by the offer, but I’m going to have to pass,” you say.

And of course, you found a new job that offers benefits that you can’t put a price on.

The freedom from commutes and evening runs to the dry cleaner. The choice to live wherever you want. And the flexibility to control your own hours.

You’re going to be working from home.

This isn’t something that “other people” do. Forbes reported that one in five Americans now work from home. And that number is expected to rise in the next few years.

Who are these lucky folks who get to work from home?

They’re people on payroll with a company — everyone from assistants to managers and even executives

They’re freelancers with skills that are in high demand

And they’re business owners who make tens, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with nothing but a laptop and internet connection

They’re the new class of professionals who define success as doing what you want, from wherever you want, and on your own terms.

But it’s not all about lifestyle. It can be a great move for everyone involved.

According to Stanford Business School, people who work from home are not only happier, they’re more productive, too.

I’ve put together this blog post to explore all the options you have, and what it takes to pull them off.

I’ll even show you the technology, tools, and skills you’ll need so that nobody will even realize you’ve left the building.

Who am I?

I’m Ramit Sethi, the New York Times best-selling author and founder of GrowthLab and I Will Teach You To Be Rich — a business that I grew from a dorm-room blog into a multimillion-dollar online business with over 30,000 paying customers around the world.

One of my personal philosophies has always been flexibility. I love going to the gym in the middle of the day when it’s not crowded. And I love meeting up with friends for a long lunch whenever they’re in New York.

So when I started to hire employees, I wanted to give them the flexibility to work from home, on their own schedule, from wherever they are in the world.

In fact, one of my employees wanted to move to Paris, and we supported it 100%.

Not setting up a central command center and letting my employees work from home has been one of the best decisions I’ve made.

Not only is everyone happier and more productive, but we also get to recruit people who are the best at what they do since we’re not limited to geography.

I’m thrilled to share everything with you today.

4 Essential Skills For Working From Home

Anyone who ever tells people they work from home will often hear, “Wow! I could never do that.” And it’s true, it takes discipline to get up, log in to your computer, and work when nobody is standing over your shoulder and directing you. Distractions attempt to grab you from every direction.

The La-Z-Boy recliner you thought would be awesome to type your weekly reports from becomes a sinkhole for your productivity.

And once word gets out that you’re home all the time, friends and family start to ask if you “could do them a favor in the middle of the day.”

Which is why, if you want to successfully work from home and maintain a healthy work-life balance, you need to declare war on distractions.

In this section, I want to talk about the 4 skills you need to consistently produce great work no matter what industry you’re in.

Remote Work Essential Skill #1: Master working in short bursts

Working from home means that nobody is looking over your shoulder anymore. You don’t have to pull up a random Excel spreadsheet whenever someone walks by to make it look like you’re working and not checking Facebook.

As long as you get your work done, you can free up time to tend to other things. Heck, my team can walk their dogs and pick their kids up from school without asking anyone for permission. Because I know they’re on top of their work.

The best way to be productive is to work in short sprints — not long, drawn-out marathon sessions.

My friend Chris Yeh is a Harvard MBA. He works a demanding full-time job, teaches at Stanford, writes for various publications, advises startups, and still manages to make time for his family.

Did you get tired just from reading that? Watch and learn how he pulls it off with the Pomodoro Technique.

Remote Work Essential Skill #2: Stick to project deadlines and due dates

According to my friend and bestselling author Tim Ferriss:

“Most people fail at new year resolutions because there is no consequence. If you don’t go to work, you’ll lose your job. But if you don’t stick to your diet, there’s no consequence — other than staying fat.”

The solution to finish everything you start?

Hold yourself accountable.

Tim’s favorite way of doing this is by using a website called stickK.

Go to stickK.com

Once you sign up, you can make a commitment contract: “I will nail the project deadline.” Then, if you don’t, stickK will take your money and donate it to a charity you despise.

You can also invite friends or coworkers to referee your progress and make things more fun.

This is a great way to stay on track for work projects when the living room recliner is calling your name for nap time.

Remote Work Essential Skill #3: Make small changes for massive results

It’s much harder to shut down for the day when your “office” is where you live. There’s no night-time cleaning crew that comes to empty out the trash to signal that you’ve been burning the midnight oil.

You have to decide when to call it quits for the day. Because sooner or later, trying to jam in another task at the end of the day can rob you of your sanity.

Which is why it’s important to make stepping away from your desk a regular habit. Whether it’s a short walk, a trip to the gym, or taking an afternoon yoga class, exercise can help keep your mind sharp when you work from home. It also helps you strike the perfect work-life balance.

Charles Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit, built a healthy eating habit while working for The New York Times. His approach was unconventional in that it started with chocolate.

Yes, you read that correctly. Chocolate triggers reward centers in your brain and makes you want to do things you normally procrastinate on.

And you can use the same exact principle to make exercise a habit. Watch the video below to see how you can put it into action as you work from home.

Ready for more great advice on working from home? Download your FREE copy of my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home now!

Remote Work Essential Skill #4: Manage your emails

Email is a great tool. But it can suck up the most productive hours of your day if you’re not careful. And once you start working from home, you’ll get more and more messages since people can’t stop by your desk to ask questions.

Some of them will be urgent and important, most of them won’t be. It’s your job to make the call. Luckily, since I get thousands of emails a day — and yes, I read all of them — I can give you some advice.

HOW TO PUT YOUR EMAIL ON AUTOPILOT

My goal is to not answer emails. Instead, I think of email as a tool.

This is where so many Inbox Zero people go wrong. The goal is not zero emails in your inbox — it’s actually getting the right things done.

I don’t give a damn if I end the day with zero unread emails or 350. I only care about getting the right things done.

One of the ways I do that is to stop waiting on responses, and instead systematize follow-ups so I don’t have to remember to do them.

For example, if I send an email about a project but I can’t proceed until I get a response from somebody else, I need to make sure I stay on top of it.

So I use SaneBox to automatically remind when I need to send a follow-up email.

It looks like this:

An example of using SaneBox to send me a reminder to follow up in 2 days.

I also use it to automatically elevate important emails to the top of my inbox. Others get de-emphasized and I can read them later.

THE EXACT SCRIPT TO SET UP A MEETING AND MINIMIZE BACK AND FORTH EMAILS

Talking on the phone to set up meetings only takes a few seconds. But if you use that same conversation framework on email, you’ll create a long thread of messages, waste time, and be a nuisance for everyone involved.

There’s a better way.

I like to have canned scripts for the most common situations I’ll encounter. That way, I can read an email, mentally categorize it, and reach into my vault of scripts to select the best response.

Here’s one I use to set up meetings that saves me hours of back and forth every year.

How to convince your boss to let you work from home

Your current job might be the best way to embark on your new telecommuting lifestyle. Even if it’s not a common practice at your company.

But you can’t just stand up on your desk one Friday afternoon and declare, “From now on, I will work from home!”

Everyone will think you’re a weirdo, and building security will usher you out of the office.

The key is this: If you’re great at what you do, you have A LOT more leverage than you think.

To put everything into perspective, you’re not just a body they hired. They had to screen hundreds of resumes, conduct 30+ phone interviews, and then invite a handful of people to meet in person.

Many people forget this.

So if your manager gives you a glowing performance review, it’s the perfect time to bring up the idea of a work-from-home job.

Don’t give any ultimatums. That can lead to confrontation, which never works out well.

Instead, offer to do it on a trial basis. You can use what I call the ARMS techniques to make it easy to get your boss’s stamp of approval.

Those four letters stand for:

Here’s how it works in action:

Later that day…

Boss: So I talked over your proposal with a few people, and we agree. It could be a good move for the company. You can start next week. Let me know what days you want to work from home.

Big Win!

The important thing to remember is that you’re proving the concept for now. Once your boss agrees to this small request, and it works out well, they’re more likely to agree to you working from home regularly.

If your company is set in their ways, and you’re set on working from home, don’t worry. There are tons of work-from-home jobs that you can apply for now.

How to land a job working from home and ask for double the average salary

If you look at the average salary for many work from home jobs, you might think they are kind of low. But those are the AVERAGE income.

The truth is, if you’re a top performer, you can find the best jobs with awesome perks, and ask for MUCH more than you think possible.

Many of my students have done it.

What do they know about getting their dream jobs that you’re in the dark about?

They know The Briefcase Technique, my proven strategy for getting a job you love at a great salary.

Ready for more great advice on working from home? Download your FREE copy of my Ultimate Guide to Working From Home now!

Case Study: How IWT works completely remotely with dozens of employees in 23 states and 6 countries

IWT started as a personal finance blog that I launched from my Stanford dorm room. Over the years, as I got more readers, I realized that living a Rich Life is about more than just money. So I expanded into careers, freelancing, social skills, and online business.

This would’ve been impossible without hiring a team to help me. Early on, I made the decision to get the very best people I could find. I didn’t want to be limited to geography. So every position I post is open to anyone in the world.

We always get a flood of applications for any job opening. The competition is fierce. But for the people who make it through the hiring process, the work is challenging. And the perks are worth it.

That’s the benefit of being a top performer. YOU get to call the shots and decide how you want to live as long as you keep producing results for the company.

As of writing this, we have dozens of employees in 23 states and 6 countries.

We have former professional athletes on the team. People who used to manage Fortune 500 companies. Marketers and copywriters who’ve worked behind the scenes on multimillion-dollar launches.

Even entrepreneurs who never have to work for anyone else again if they wanted have dropped everything they’re doing to join our team.

Had I rented office space in some New York City high rise, I would’ve never been able to attract this caliber of talent.

What IWT team members LOVE about their work from home careers

If you’re great at what you do, we might have a spot for you.

Working from home by starting an online business

So far, we’ve covered working remotely for an employer and freelancing online for clients. For some of you, that might be your Rich Life.

But there is another option:

Starting an online business that allows you to work from home (or anywhere in the world). That’s what I did. And now I work as much (or little) as I want.

I can spend a 6-week vacation every year traveling with my wife while my business runs on autopilot.

If you want true freedom with when, where and how much you work (and to be able to make a ton of money too), I believe there’s no better solution than starting your own business.

That’s why I put together a free PDF with 30 proven online business ideas you can copy. Just enter your email below.

Then, let me know what your biggest takeaway from this post was in the comments below.

Working From Home: The Essential Beginner’s Guide (with scripts) is a post from: I Will Teach You To Be Rich.

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• A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online. – Joanne Harris • A lot of negative words adults call the young, like ‘naive,’ ‘impulsive’ and ‘way too connected online,’ are all things we can turn into strengths to help us. – Adora Svitak • A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter. – Dan Savage • A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work. – Jennifer Egan • A smartphone links patients’ bodies and doctors’ computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual’s internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth. – Charles C. Mann • An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network. – Marc Andreessen • An online job search seems cheaper. But what HR is doing is turning away valuable candidates. They’re experiencing false negatives. That means the right person applies for the job electronically but the algorithm kicks them out so they lose that individual. – Nick Corcodilos • Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I’ve seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise. – Niklas Zennstrom • Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There’s going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they’re going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they’re going to look into this North Korean thing. – David Letterman • Anything I really want I can find online. – Rachel Maddow • As each generation comes up that doesn’t have the habits for paper it’s just easier and cheaper to get your stuff online. You know, people go to what they’re used to. Certainly our generation, you know, we’ll always want to have a magazine in our hands. We like that, but millennials didn’t see the value in that necessarily. – John Buffalo Mailer • As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I’m gone. – Henry Rollins • As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world. – Ron Wyden • As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of there being masterpieces of improvised music through benchmark recordings. – David Grubbs

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Calling China’s online censorship system a ‘Great Firewall’ is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools. – Evgeny Morozov • Chess: It’s like alcohol. It’s a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online. – Charles Krauthammer • Collections are certainly abundant online. It’s complicated, because it’s not like these people didn’t want computers, although there was some nonchalance about it. I would sometimes ask the people I interviewed if they wished they had a computer, and in a lot of cases, it was like they couldn’t process the question. You don’t know what you don’t have, I guess. – Miranda July • Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department’s Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn’t talk about. – Howard Rheingold • Do you guys remember that woman who disappeared a few years ago, Chandra Levy? Do you remember her? I found this fascinating. Apparently, the day she disappeared, she had gone on her computer, and the last website she ever visited was an online map of the park where her body was found. That’s true. I just hope that if I ever disappear, people don’t look for me based on the last websites I visited. – Christian Finnegan • Don’t fool yourself that you’re blogging when you’re really just putting stuff up online. – Andrew Sullivan • Every generation has a changing of the guard in media. We do the same stuff that everybody else does, but we just do it differently. We do our content online differently. We do our magazines differently. We do our TV differently. We never had anyone tell us how to do magazines, so we just developed it in a different way. – Shane Smith • Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008…That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it. – Barack Obama • Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema, or online, is because we haven’t found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we’re here. But I’ve learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose. – Jerome Jarre • Everyone told me, “Don’t ever talk about international stuff,” and “Don’t do long-form content online,” and “Don’t get too serious in news,” and “Don’t be too heavy” – all this stuff, all the rules. But we broke the rules, and that, ironically, has led to some of our most successful stuff. – Shane Smith • Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people. – Laura Jane Grace • Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online. – Bill Gates • For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control. – Marissa Mayer • Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn. – Tom Felton • Having an avatar doesn’t give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn’t make you a personality either. – Marilyn Manson • Here’s a habit I never thought I’d develop: I gravitate to anything online that’s marked ‘most popular’ or ‘most e-mailed.’ And I hate myself a little bit every time I do. – Susan Orlean • I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn’t due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships. – Gary Vaynerchuk • I always thought that digital first was a simplistic notion, and I am not even sure quite what it means. It should be stories first. Let’s take the Paris story: the New York Times covered it all day, we held nothing back. Everything we learned, we published online. Then, when you approach your print deadline, you have to do two things. You have to polish those stories that are online because print is less forgiving of mistakes. Secondly, in an ideal world, you pick one thing that will feel fresh and compelling to people in the morning when they pick up the print paper. – Dean Baquet • I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails. – Taylor Swift • I bet he never goes on YouTube. He’s too busy. It’s only tragic cases like you and me who are always online. – Sophie Kinsella • I binge write. I think it’s because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. – Erin Morgenstern • I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy. – Nadia Giosia • I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. – John Green • I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they’re smart. – Chris Hardwick • I do shop online! But I’m shopping online mostly in the home categories – One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So you know for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don’t really shop that much for clothing online. – Nate Berkus • I don’t follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side. – Christian Louboutin • I don’t know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details. – Robert James Thomson • I don’t play online games. ‘Warcraft,’ I’ve played that, but I mainly play action games. – Steven Spielberg • I don’t see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. – Umberto Eco • I don’t spend a lot of time online. My mother’s really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she’ll forward it to me. She’s like my little Internet filter. It’s always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I’ve got a nice little delivery system in my mom. – Nathan Fillion • I don’t think a true company – one that builds sustainable value – can ever only exist online or remotely. – Margaret Heffernan • I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version. – Bill Gates • I don’t think they’re more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls – always – they didn’t have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think. – Jacki Weaver • I don’t want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein. – Steven Morrissey • I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it’s like, “Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money,” but I’m not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with. – Kalup Linzy • I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs online. It’s great, they’re available, you can see lots of different work, but it’s a limited experience of the form. A book is like an album. You don’t have to have a million dollars to be able to buy it, you have to save some money, you have to buy your album, then you take it home, and you put it on your turntable. – Alec Soth • I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people’s lives… The greatest fear that I have is losing touch. – Queen Rania of Jordan • I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks. – Alexa Chung • I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online. – Ed McBain • I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. – Felicia Day • I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it’s intimate or my family or friends – at least in videos. It’s always been something that I’ve sworn off from sharing online. – Tyler Oakley • I have given money to the Obama campaign online and now they bombard me with emails every day. Why did I do that online? Why didn’t I just walk into an office? – Anne Heche • I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I’m somewhere between 400 and 500. – Moby • I know there’s an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing. – Nigel Farage • I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they’re still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions. – Michael Moore • I like to shop. That’s what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping. – Sloane Stephens • I listened more than I asked. There’s a lot of information online, so many Youtube videos, countless interviews with all those obvious questions that were all answered for me. I just wanted to absorb her essence. I wanted to see the details, she has such mad style. I just wanted to see – the way she communicates with her hands, these gestures, her smile, how she moves through space. – Vera Farmiga • I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I’ve bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online. – Tom Ford • I love knowing and learning about people around the world displaying my art online. Also, it’s how I learn about new artists that are in various parts of the world. The positive thing about Tumblr and Instagram is that they’re a fantastic platform for art lovers. I also like, when I search for my art and it says, “see also or related artists,” and I see those other artists that relate to me, at least according to the internet. I think it’s fascinating – it’s interesting to see hashtags people are using in relation to my work. It’s another tool of communication. – Mickalene Thomas • I love teaching online at my website and soon I’ll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don’t have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming. – Danica McKellar • I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I’ve found. It’s surprising how much out there still has no online presence. – Michael Dumontier • I posted a video a day for almost two months and was hardly sleeping, but I think it really pushed me to give music everything I had in me. I knew it was a chance I couldn’t miss. The funny thing is I never saw my music video when it aired during the Super Bowl because as soon as I heard my song start I was in tears for the next 10 minutes! The most amazing thing that came out of all of this, however, was the support that had developed online. Without the people that came back day after day to vote for me, I’d be nowhere, and I really owe it all to them. – Kina Grannis • I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There’s nothing online that I’m not aware of. – Joe Budden • I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn’t pick up just by surface reading. – Abbie Cornish • I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it’s starting to reverse a little bit. – Joe Budden • I saw it on the Twitter of today, on the online boards. There was a huge amount of negative reaction that’s been forgotten because the quality eventually shined through. But usually it takes people a while to see what they’ve got on their plate. And I think, with “Jessica Jones,” it’s this anomalous thing where, and because of the original property being so good, people saw it right away, which is very unusual. – Jane Espenson • I spoke to a blogger. It was election time when we were doing the movie and Hillary Clinton was still in the running. This blogger was doing a story on democratic women who were anti-Hillary. He was on the computer speaking to these women and it made me realize that you can reach a much broader audience online but on the other hand Russell’s [Crowe] character argues that you still need to get on the streets and see people face to face, and check your facts. – Rachel McAdams • I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and narrative of the story. This got me thinking that maybe this is a way of doing journalism, a way of telling stories and revealing patterns. – David Mccandless • I think anything we do – eating, walking down the street, online shopping – gives you another perspective on writing stories. – Peter Orner • I think in the end, anger and negativity from other people is all about what’s going on inside them. So I don’t really mind it. There’s a lot of it online, there’s a load of it on the roads, but I just plow on regardless. – Jeremy Vine • I think it is effective when activists work from the margins, and I think that’s the best way to go about it. And I do think that it’s increasingly being more effective with the work that’s being done online, that it is a bit more democratized, that whatever kind of activism is being done, it’s not necessarily coming from one centralized place. – Jessica Valenti • I think it’s both annoying and beneficial that there’s so much freedom online. – Rachel Maddow • I think that online harassment has become so ubiquitous on the Internet that a lot of women do feel safer, whatever that means, in spaces where they know like people are not going to bother them in that kind of way. – Jessica Valenti • I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer’s hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer’s work is never really done online. – Khoi Vinh • I think, it’s so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something. – Joe Budden • I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself… because I’m a writer, and it’s like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer… it was just getting too hairy. – Mike White • I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression. – Evgeny Morozov • I want to make sure (a user) can’t get through … an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad. – Steve Ballmer • I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. – Jeremy Rifkin • I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online. – Patti Stanger • I waste a lot of my time documenting my “search for great esoterica” online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one’s influences. – Michael Dumontier • I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play. – Gary Vaynerchuk • I wouldn’t say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists. – Ashton Kutcher • I`ve been spending a fair amount of time in the recesses of white nationalist, white supremacist social media online areas, what called itself is the “alt right”, which is sort of the euphemistic term they use for what is essentially modern day white supremacy. And they are some of [Donald]Trump – this has been reported from the beginning but they are very excited about [anti-Muslim] proposal. – Chris Hayes • If you get a chance, whenever you’re traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don’t buy your comics online ’cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids. – Nicolas Cage • If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you’re going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there’s no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I’m fine with the consequences. – Tim Ferriss • I’m astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. – Jaron Lanier • I’m fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends. – Michael Dumontier • I’m going to go do this crazy thing. I’m going to start this company selling books online. – Jeff Bezos • I’m not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world’s about and I understand that that’s the nature of music dissemination. – Tim Hecker • I’m not big on awareness about what’s going on online but usually if you do too much online stuff then you usually bump into something that hurts. – Alice Eve • I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. – Bill Gates • I’m working on a mixtape called I Made Hip-Hop Smile. It’s going to be a free online mixtape. I think it’s going to get some crazy buzz. We have a few marketing campaigns, that I think are going to make it pull through. – SonReal • In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn’t exist online, it didn’t exist at all. It showed me criticism’s future. – Jerry Saltz • In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to acknowledge that when the Bible speaks of fools, it is not just speaking about other people, but about them as well. Even the wisest among us has moments of folly. So God gives us spouses to serve as wise friends by praying with and for us, attending church with us, speaking truth, and providing Scripture along with good books and online classes, lectures, and sermons to nourish fruitfulness in our lives. – Mark Driscoll • In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games. – Bill Gates • In this age of omniconnectedness, words like ‘network,’ ‘community’ and even ‘friends’ no longer mean what they used to. Networks don’t exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check. – Simon Sinek • In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds. – Howard Kurtz • It is nonsense that people shopping online in some parts of Europe are unable to access the best deals because of where they live. I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. – David Cameron • It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. – Steve Jobs • It was really bizarre for me to go from being a very private and obscure person and then to be in any way on the internet – like having my picture or videos online. – Erika M. Anderson • It’s everywhere, constant criticism of women’s appearance in magazines and online. It’s not easy to navigate. – Shirley Manson • It’s fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it’s fun when the writers will come to you and say ‘Hey, listen, we’re working on this story and we need to know if you speak any foreign languages.’ And I said ‘No, I don’t. I speak a little Spanish, but I can learn a foreign language.’ And they go ‘Okay, do you think you can learn Portuguese?’ And I go ‘Yeah, whatever it takes. If it’s funny, I’ll do it.’ So of course I start looking online and learning Portuguese, and as it turns out, I get the script and it’s now Serbian. – David Alan Basche • It’s important to distinguish between “worry versus harm” when it came to privacy online. – Larry Page • It’s so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it’s all about singles, it’s really quick, it’s online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but – I don’t know what the key is. – Avril Lavigne • It’s time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education. – Bobby Jindal • It’s very important to have a good song – one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar or at the piano. It has to hold its own. That’s why I’ve put videos online with acoustic versions of my songs, so you can hear them in their original form. – Lights • It’s very much a back and forth conversation between the fans and the writers, between the writers and the powers that be. Their opinions, especially when expressed online or via correspondence, are important and are taken into consideration. – Wentworth Miller • I’ve also worked with various producers and artists around the world, which has helped with my international recognition. We’ve sold a lot of albums online in places like Norway and France. Sometimes we track my hits online daily and we are getting regular hits from people all over the place. – SonReal • I’ve gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I’m back to a flip-phone. It’s funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they’re considered antiques. – Tim Allen • I’ve made choices in my life to be somewhat broke to do art and I think it is going to be the same thing with online exposure. You have to be able to make the choices that can make you happy or it will make you crazy. – Erika M. Anderson • I’ve spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn’t have an album up online or anything. It’s been a lot of work; it definitely hasn’t been a sudden explosion into fame. – Florence Welch • I’ve started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller’s notes before sending them to me. If you’d have forwarded them to me without a translation, I’d be searching for a tall building/overpass/water tower from which to yell “goodbye cruel world. – Tammara Webber • Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and ‘Continue’ buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it’s practically a generic. – Lynda Resnick • Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It’s so important. – Danica McKellar • Kenny Goldsmith from Ubuweb describes himself as an amateur archivist, and people can download files from Ubuweb – it’s not a streaming service. But it’s a miracle that it’s still online and they’re able to make it work through the donations of server space and volunteer efforts. – David Grubbs • Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that. – Talib Kweli • Look, I don’t have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn’t in this position, I’m sure I would use it every day. – Jesse Eisenberg • Luckily, there’s enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them. – Regina Spektor • Luxury is not a static concept, but it shapes and changes with society. Now somebody who might not have the time to come to one of our boutiques can shop online. – Stefano Gabbana • Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you’re online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don’t send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you’re wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime. – Amy Webb • Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don’t normally interact with. – Jimmy Wales • Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever… unless they get a new CEO who isn’t crazy about pouring billions into a hole. – Marco Arment • Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online. – Evgeny Morozov • More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense. – Marc Andreessen • More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. – Marc Andreessen • More platform-sensitive generations will make distinctions between online and in-person intimacy, whereas fourteen-year-olds have very nuanced online selves and might embody their virtual identity in the physical, analogue version of themselves. They have a much more pluralistic understanding of the self. I don’t think we’d be here now in this amazing sexual and gender revolution without the online space where young people can see and share other versions of identity and sexuality. – Charlotte Cotton • Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What’s more, they’ve done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. – Cory Doctorow • Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch enough to tide you over for a bit.” – Rosa – Sherrilyn Kenyon • My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world. – Thomas P. Campbell • My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else. – Evgeny Morozov • My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don’t. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records. – Henry Rollins • MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just… Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is an important part of any public figure’s day. We haven’t seen it yet, but there’s going to be a generation that comes up where the new trend will be complete anonymity. It’ll be cool to have never posted anything online, commented, opened a webpage or a MySpace. I think everyone in the future is going to be allowed to be obscure for 15 minutes. You’ll have 15 minutes where no one is watching you, and then you’ll be shoved back onto your reality show. – Patton Oswalt • New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, ‘Jane is now friends with Tom.’ The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete. – Douglas Rushkoff • New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free? – Nathan Myhrvold • Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement. – Malcolm Turnbull • Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. – Bill Gates • Now, I’m as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there’s nothing like a book. – Laurie R. King • Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. – Bill Gates • Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They’re fairy tales for grown-ups. – Gena Showalter • One of the things I really like about doing work online, and the thing I like about the work I’m doing now, is that I get to meet feminists all the time and I get to read new feminists every day on the blogosphere. – Jessica Valenti • One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It’s simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who’s online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy. – Eric Schmidt • One thing we didn’t know in 1996 is that it’s very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising. – Howard Rheingold • Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but – like a good spray of buckshot – it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor. – Douglas Rushkoff • Online communities are an expression of loneliness. – Joanne Harris • Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you’re confused about it, [the area] where you’re confused can be analyzed by software. – Bill Gates • Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is. – Ben Affleck • Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane. – Gary Hamel • Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic. – Tim Ferriss • Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we’ve moved the store to the desk. Now though, she’s is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she’s tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online. – Natalie Massenet • Peak hours for sending a first email through the online dating system tended to be during work (eleven A.M. to four P.M.) and then just after dinner (seven P.M. to nine P.M.). I did have a few women send me a first message after eleven P.M. Those who did had an 82 percent chance of coming from a profile that had too many words. – Amy Webb • People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life. – Joel Stein • Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it’s probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don’t see any big political consequences out of that. – Evgeny Morozov • Point me to 50 people online who think I’m super sexy. I’ll point you to 50 more who say he’s old and looks like my dad. – Jon Hamm • Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like “future thinker”. Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure. – Amy Webb • Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song ‘Gangnam Style,’ and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports. – Ai Weiwei • Rhage burning deep inside Uncontrollable Phury, unable to hide Trust me and I’ll let my Wrath begin This Tohrment building up within My Vischous attitude will shine through ………I’ll let my Tehrror free on you -my own zsadist quote from the black dagger brotherhood that i found online – J.R. Ward • Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara. – Evgeny Morozov • San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as – as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States. – Keith Ellison • Shopping, eating, and being with my friends. So, anytime that I am at home chillin’, I will find a way to shop online. I’m like, “If I’m not allowed out of the house tonight then I am shopping online! – Miley Cyrus • Simply getting a country’s population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking. – Evgeny Morozov • Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise. – Evgeny Morozov • Social media’s currency is the single photograph. Whereas, every time I look at a photograph, I look at twenty or thirty photographs. I’m looking for a narrative. And that’s a different kind of construct. If you’re a poet and you put a line from your poem online, “The trees bending over gracefully,” or something, you can get a tick. But that has nothing to do with your longer poem. – Stuart Franklin • Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you’re quiet and you’re just not the most gregarious person, that you’re like.. I don’t know, self-involved, rude possibly, frigid. I get that a lot from people who don’t know me, like online all you guys think I never smile, ever. It’s not true. I do smile sometimes. – Kristen Stewart • Some people say that it’s so hard with the Internet, but I know for a fact that the Internet has made it easier for someone to establish themselves. There’s so much you can do online. If you know how to use it right, the web serves as the great equalizer for someone that’s just getting into business. – Jordan Belfort • Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity. – Michael Burry • Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree. – Dan Rather • Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach. – Jennifer Granholm • Term Life Insurance is the only insurance I recommend. It’s the least expensive way to get the coverage your family needs and allows you to lock in rates for 15, 20 or 30 years. Zander’s online quoting system will help you find the most competitive options. It’s more affordable than you think! – Dave Ramsey • The [Hillary] Clinton campaign posted a pretty clever online quiz that makes a similar point with the Republican presidential field. Who said it? Donald Trump or not Donald Trump? For example, quote, “I mean you can prove you are a Christian. You can`t prove it, then you err on the side of caution.” That was not Donald Trump. It was this guy, who strongly denounced Trump`s proposed Muslim ban but supports a religious test for refugees. – Chris Hayes • The actual process of travel I really like, because that time on planes and in airports makes me feel like I’m moving around like a ghost. There’s a certain aspect of justifiable downtime. I really feel like being online is so pervasive now. – Johnny Marr • The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, ‘What did I just learn? – Chris Hughes • The best remote companies I’ve seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis. – Margaret Heffernan • The best thing about the world today is that everyone is connected and you can go online and quickly find people all over the world doing incredible things. – Benjamin Stone • The biggest thing is online shopping. So that you don’t have to dress up, go down Bond Street or Rodeo or wherever, go and be intimidated by shop assistants to buy Gucci shoes or a Prada dress. You can just go online and, if it doesn’t fit you, send it back. And I think that is the biggest, biggest difference, because that means everybody can do it. – Jennifer Saunders • The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites. – Evgeny Morozov • The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom. – Evgeny Morozov • The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers. – Douglas Rushkoff • The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I’ll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away. – Marisa Miller • The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses. – Margaret Atwood • The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people’s choice award where people could vote online. – Pamela Geller • The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered. – Ali Partovi • The Internet … is an amazing communications tool that’s bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it’s just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you’ve never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you’re hearing. – Dennis Miller • The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment. – Bette Midler • The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online. – Seth Godin • The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don’t like that in much the same way that if you’re walking down the street you get harassed. I think the same kind of thing happens online, and I think that’s why a lot of women are hesitant to put their voice out there. – Jessica Valenti • The Mail Online is like carbs – you know you shouldn’t but you do. Probably two or three times a day. – Lily Allen • The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history. – Thomas P. Campbell • The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it’s the hot topic of the day doesn’t make a profitable business nor satisfied customers. That’s why it will be a part of Nintendo’s strategy, not the mainstay, as other companies are attempting to do. There still are too many barriers for any company to greatly depend on it. – Satoru Iwata • The recent arrest of Younis Tsouli in the United Kingdom was no doubt a significant victory in the war against online terrorism. Tsouli was one of a very select few individuals who have successfully used the Internet as a means to network and share resources with a host of Al-Qaida-linked terrorist organizations. – Evan Kohlmann • The Simpsons and Futurama are such big projects, going on for years and working in different media, that everything involved with them, promotion and merchandise and online presence and all the rest, deserve to be scrutinized, so that’s part of it. I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone at the core of a multimedia juggernaut, even if you might not care for the specific pop-culture invasion of your brain. The people who do it work really hard. – Matt Groening • The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I’m the sort of person who will just look for the negative – Michael really can’t understand it, but that’s just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that’s poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it’s so liberating. – Catherine Zeta-Jones • The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology. – Andrew Revkin • The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that. – Ben Affleck • The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online – Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. – and it gives us a sense of what’s breaking through, what isn’t, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time. – Daniel Pfeiffer • The worst thing about the internet, as far as Greg’s bosses were concerned, was that it was now impossible to distinguish a roomful of people working diligently from a roomful of people taking the What-Kind-of-Dog-Am-I? online personality quiz – Rainbow Rowell • There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere. – Dick Cavett • There is evil prowling in the world – it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds. – Rick Perry • There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now. – Thom Yorke • There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it’ll change. – Tim Willits • There’s a lot of controversy online, some people say i’m a genius and other say i’m hugely talented. – Andy Kindler • There’s always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you’re hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that. – Bill Gates • There’s nothing that beats proving you’re funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online. – Louis C. K. • There’s tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time. – Henry Rollins • Things have a behavior online, whereas in print, there is a single canonical expression for them, but online everything responds to different criteria or has inherent states to it based on that criteria. So, you have to design that in a different way. It’s a completely different dynamic even though it may look similar. – Khoi Vinh • Today Monopoly added a new game piece: the cat. The new piece was chosen after weeks of online voting. Is that a surprise? Whenever there’s a vote for something on the Internet, the cat always wins. – Craig Ferguson • Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures. – Mark Zuckerberg • Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online. – Ted Cruz • We [me and Jennifer Salke] talked about the characters and different kinds of families and where are we today. We certainly pitched the gay couple, but we also talked about what it was like to be a single mother with a young daughter, what is it like to be a woman in your 50’s who is completely starting over and dating again and having to go online to date again. We talked about the whole spectrum of the characters, but I don’t think it ever came up about whether people are ready for it or not. – Ryan T. Murphy • We all have a suspicion and hope that we’ve just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can’t, sort of like having a superpower that’s not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It’s a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect. – Rob Lowe • We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. – Nate Silver • We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning. – Andy Hargreaves • We in CNN have 27 reporters out in the field – from Alaska to Florida, and everywhere in between. 29 if you count the White House and the Hill. We are in every key state, in every key district and on the ground where key issues are playing out. Political campaigns’ success is all about the ground game and CNN feels the same way about election coverage. Expect to see original reporting from all our remote locations all night long. On air and online. – Andrew Morse • We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I’d like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online. – Will Packer • We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. – Carly Fiorina • We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent. – Marco Rubio • We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors’. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008) – Carlos Ruiz Zafon • We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes – Bonnie Greer • We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people – and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through. – Christopher Meloni • We’re at a point in time in our history of humanity where the systems we use for mass production have to be reevaluated, and it first struck me that online communities are a way to have local production with a universal reach. – Mary Mattingly • What’s always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you’re in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience. – Chris Milk • When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist, and we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online. – Al Franken • When it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, “Oh, I’ll start doing this. I’ll put the parts online that aren’t going to get me in trouble. I’ll save the rest for myself.” It became also this kind of self-therapy. I could write about stuff that was bothering me, or personal stuff. And the very personal stuff I could edit out. But it was kind of the catharsis of getting it out and writing about it, that made me think, “Okay, I see why people do this, why they keep these diaries.” So I thought, “Well, let’s see what happens when I post some of it.” – David Byrne • When it comes to people who are saying really extreme things online, we have the tendency to think that they are just kooks, or that you shouldn’t pay attention to them, you shouldn’t take them seriously. – Jessica Valenti • When something online is free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product. – Jonathan Zittrain • When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven’t been very successful. – Peter Gabriel • When you think about email or IMing, why aren’t you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you’re online, why aren’t you writing me back? But with Twitter, everybody sends their responses to Twitter, and Twitter then sends them out to everyone. So there’s not this constant connection. You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine. – Biz Stone • When you’re doing stuff online, you should behave as if you’re doing it in public – because increasingly, it is. – Jon Kleinberg • Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you’re like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories. – Daniel Radcliffe • Why the confidential advisor provision is so important, because most women – the first place they go is online: “What do I do if I’m raped?” There’s no knowledge about “How do I proceed?” in a way that’s going to protect them. – Kirsten Gillibrand • With any video you see online, like with YouTube, you gotta watch an ad, and that’s gotta stop. And I think it’ll stop by…the shitty network shows they put out will just have the ads in the shows. The characters will be eating Cheetos or whatever. – Derek Waters • With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired – the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later – Marc Andreessen • With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don’t have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble. – Brad Furman • Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time – like going to a nice restaurant. – Max Azria • Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. ‘Little Kid Lover.’ That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at. – Steve Carell • You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can’t get enough. You are addicted to Apple. – J. B. Smoove • You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what’s out there. I find that a little overwhelming. – Moby • You know, it’s not a given that there is an ‘online’ and ‘offline’ world out there. When you use the telephone, you don’t say that I’m entering some ‘telephono-sphere.’ You don’t say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem. – Evgeny Morozov • You put a group of people in that come from a variety of backgrounds and who are out there in the world with different opinions and different ways of expressing themselves online. It’s hard to say. – Allison Grodner • You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don’t think hellions are much into social networking. – Rachel Vincent

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• A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online. – Joanne Harris • A lot of negative words adults call the young, like ‘naive,’ ‘impulsive’ and ‘way too connected online,’ are all things we can turn into strengths to help us. – Adora Svitak • A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter. – Dan Savage • A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work. – Jennifer Egan • A smartphone links patients’ bodies and doctors’ computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual’s internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth. – Charles C. Mann • An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network. – Marc Andreessen • An online job search seems cheaper. But what HR is doing is turning away valuable candidates. They’re experiencing false negatives. That means the right person applies for the job electronically but the algorithm kicks them out so they lose that individual. – Nick Corcodilos • Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I’ve seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise. – Niklas Zennstrom • Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There’s going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they’re going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they’re going to look into this North Korean thing. – David Letterman • Anything I really want I can find online. – Rachel Maddow • As each generation comes up that doesn’t have the habits for paper it’s just easier and cheaper to get your stuff online. You know, people go to what they’re used to. Certainly our generation, you know, we’ll always want to have a magazine in our hands. We like that, but millennials didn’t see the value in that necessarily. – John Buffalo Mailer • As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I’m gone. – Henry Rollins • As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world. – Ron Wyden • As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of there being masterpieces of improvised music through benchmark recordings. – David Grubbs

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Online', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_online').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_online img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups – you’d get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there’s discussions about what you should and shouldn’t be doing. The minute you announce that you’re recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be. – Geddy Lee • Basically, my socialization as a child didn’t come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online. – Felicia Day • Because there’s no accountability on line in the same way there is in real life, all of a sudden you can say like, yeah, I hate women; I want to kill women. And you can say that online, and not only will you find a place to say it, but you’ll find a place to say it where people are like, yeah, me too. – Jessica Valenti • Blood City III: The Massacre. I’d read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life. – James Patterson • Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book and sent it out into the world. A couple of months after publication letters from readers might arrive. And, leaving aside the professional reviews, it is really the reader’s opinions that the writer needs. They vote for a book – and a writer – with their hard earned cash every time they go into a bookstore (or online – that’s my age showing!) and buy a book. – Michael Scott

[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Calling China’s online censorship system a ‘Great Firewall’ is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools. – Evgeny Morozov • Chess: It’s like alcohol. It’s a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online. – Charles Krauthammer • Collections are certainly abundant online. It’s complicated, because it’s not like these people didn’t want computers, although there was some nonchalance about it. I would sometimes ask the people I interviewed if they wished they had a computer, and in a lot of cases, it was like they couldn’t process the question. You don’t know what you don’t have, I guess. – Miranda July • Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department’s Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn’t talk about. – Howard Rheingold • Do you guys remember that woman who disappeared a few years ago, Chandra Levy? Do you remember her? I found this fascinating. Apparently, the day she disappeared, she had gone on her computer, and the last website she ever visited was an online map of the park where her body was found. That’s true. I just hope that if I ever disappear, people don’t look for me based on the last websites I visited. – Christian Finnegan • Don’t fool yourself that you’re blogging when you’re really just putting stuff up online. – Andrew Sullivan • Every generation has a changing of the guard in media. We do the same stuff that everybody else does, but we just do it differently. We do our content online differently. We do our magazines differently. We do our TV differently. We never had anyone tell us how to do magazines, so we just developed it in a different way. – Shane Smith • Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008…That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it. – Barack Obama • Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema, or online, is because we haven’t found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we’re here. But I’ve learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose. – Jerome Jarre • Everyone told me, “Don’t ever talk about international stuff,” and “Don’t do long-form content online,” and “Don’t get too serious in news,” and “Don’t be too heavy” – all this stuff, all the rules. But we broke the rules, and that, ironically, has led to some of our most successful stuff. – Shane Smith • Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people. – Laura Jane Grace • Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online. – Bill Gates • For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control. – Marissa Mayer • Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn. – Tom Felton • Having an avatar doesn’t give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn’t make you a personality either. – Marilyn Manson • Here’s a habit I never thought I’d develop: I gravitate to anything online that’s marked ‘most popular’ or ‘most e-mailed.’ And I hate myself a little bit every time I do. – Susan Orlean • I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn’t due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships. – Gary Vaynerchuk • I always thought that digital first was a simplistic notion, and I am not even sure quite what it means. It should be stories first. Let’s take the Paris story: the New York Times covered it all day, we held nothing back. Everything we learned, we published online. Then, when you approach your print deadline, you have to do two things. You have to polish those stories that are online because print is less forgiving of mistakes. Secondly, in an ideal world, you pick one thing that will feel fresh and compelling to people in the morning when they pick up the print paper. – Dean Baquet • I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails. – Taylor Swift • I bet he never goes on YouTube. He’s too busy. It’s only tragic cases like you and me who are always online. – Sophie Kinsella • I binge write. I think it’s because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. – Erin Morgenstern • I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy. – Nadia Giosia • I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. – John Green • I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they’re smart. – Chris Hardwick • I do shop online! But I’m shopping online mostly in the home categories – One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So you know for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don’t really shop that much for clothing online. – Nate Berkus • I don’t follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side. – Christian Louboutin • I don’t know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details. – Robert James Thomson • I don’t play online games. ‘Warcraft,’ I’ve played that, but I mainly play action games. – Steven Spielberg • I don’t see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. – Umberto Eco • I don’t spend a lot of time online. My mother’s really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she’ll forward it to me. She’s like my little Internet filter. It’s always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I’ve got a nice little delivery system in my mom. – Nathan Fillion • I don’t think a true company – one that builds sustainable value – can ever only exist online or remotely. – Margaret Heffernan • I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version. – Bill Gates • I don’t think they’re more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls – always – they didn’t have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think. – Jacki Weaver • I don’t want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein. – Steven Morrissey • I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it’s like, “Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money,” but I’m not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with. – Kalup Linzy • I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs online. It’s great, they’re available, you can see lots of different work, but it’s a limited experience of the form. A book is like an album. You don’t have to have a million dollars to be able to buy it, you have to save some money, you have to buy your album, then you take it home, and you put it on your turntable. – Alec Soth • I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people’s lives… The greatest fear that I have is losing touch. – Queen Rania of Jordan • I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks. – Alexa Chung • I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online. – Ed McBain • I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. – Felicia Day • I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it’s intimate or my family or friends – at least in videos. It’s always been something that I’ve sworn off from sharing online. – Tyler Oakley • I have given money to the Obama campaign online and now they bombard me with emails every day. Why did I do that online? Why didn’t I just walk into an office? – Anne Heche • I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I’m somewhere between 400 and 500. – Moby • I know there’s an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing. – Nigel Farage • I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they’re still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions. – Michael Moore • I like to shop. That’s what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping. – Sloane Stephens • I listened more than I asked. There’s a lot of information online, so many Youtube videos, countless interviews with all those obvious questions that were all answered for me. I just wanted to absorb her essence. I wanted to see the details, she has such mad style. I just wanted to see – the way she communicates with her hands, these gestures, her smile, how she moves through space. – Vera Farmiga • I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I’ve bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online. – Tom Ford • I love knowing and learning about people around the world displaying my art online. Also, it’s how I learn about new artists that are in various parts of the world. The positive thing about Tumblr and Instagram is that they’re a fantastic platform for art lovers. I also like, when I search for my art and it says, “see also or related artists,” and I see those other artists that relate to me, at least according to the internet. I think it’s fascinating – it’s interesting to see hashtags people are using in relation to my work. It’s another tool of communication. – Mickalene Thomas • I love teaching online at my website and soon I’ll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don’t have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming. – Danica McKellar • I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I’ve found. It’s surprising how much out there still has no online presence. – Michael Dumontier • I posted a video a day for almost two months and was hardly sleeping, but I think it really pushed me to give music everything I had in me. I knew it was a chance I couldn’t miss. The funny thing is I never saw my music video when it aired during the Super Bowl because as soon as I heard my song start I was in tears for the next 10 minutes! The most amazing thing that came out of all of this, however, was the support that had developed online. Without the people that came back day after day to vote for me, I’d be nowhere, and I really owe it all to them. – Kina Grannis • I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There’s nothing online that I’m not aware of. – Joe Budden • I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn’t pick up just by surface reading. – Abbie Cornish • I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it’s starting to reverse a little bit. – Joe Budden • I saw it on the Twitter of today, on the online boards. There was a huge amount of negative reaction that’s been forgotten because the quality eventually shined through. But usually it takes people a while to see what they’ve got on their plate. And I think, with “Jessica Jones,” it’s this anomalous thing where, and because of the original property being so good, people saw it right away, which is very unusual. – Jane Espenson • I spoke to a blogger. It was election time when we were doing the movie and Hillary Clinton was still in the running. This blogger was doing a story on democratic women who were anti-Hillary. He was on the computer speaking to these women and it made me realize that you can reach a much broader audience online but on the other hand Russell’s [Crowe] character argues that you still need to get on the streets and see people face to face, and check your facts. – Rachel McAdams • I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and narrative of the story. This got me thinking that maybe this is a way of doing journalism, a way of telling stories and revealing patterns. – David Mccandless • I think anything we do – eating, walking down the street, online shopping – gives you another perspective on writing stories. – Peter Orner • I think in the end, anger and negativity from other people is all about what’s going on inside them. So I don’t really mind it. There’s a lot of it online, there’s a load of it on the roads, but I just plow on regardless. – Jeremy Vine • I think it is effective when activists work from the margins, and I think that’s the best way to go about it. And I do think that it’s increasingly being more effective with the work that’s being done online, that it is a bit more democratized, that whatever kind of activism is being done, it’s not necessarily coming from one centralized place. – Jessica Valenti • I think it’s both annoying and beneficial that there’s so much freedom online. – Rachel Maddow • I think that online harassment has become so ubiquitous on the Internet that a lot of women do feel safer, whatever that means, in spaces where they know like people are not going to bother them in that kind of way. – Jessica Valenti • I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer’s hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer’s work is never really done online. – Khoi Vinh • I think, it’s so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something. – Joe Budden • I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself… because I’m a writer, and it’s like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer… it was just getting too hairy. – Mike White • I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression. – Evgeny Morozov • I want to make sure (a user) can’t get through … an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad. – Steve Ballmer • I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. – Jeremy Rifkin • I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online. – Patti Stanger • I waste a lot of my time documenting my “search for great esoterica” online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one’s influences. – Michael Dumontier • I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play. – Gary Vaynerchuk • I wouldn’t say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists. – Ashton Kutcher • I`ve been spending a fair amount of time in the recesses of white nationalist, white supremacist social media online areas, what called itself is the “alt right”, which is sort of the euphemistic term they use for what is essentially modern day white supremacy. And they are some of [Donald]Trump – this has been reported from the beginning but they are very excited about [anti-Muslim] proposal. – Chris Hayes • If you get a chance, whenever you’re traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don’t buy your comics online ’cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids. – Nicolas Cage • If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you’re going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there’s no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I’m fine with the consequences. – Tim Ferriss • I’m astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. – Jaron Lanier • I’m fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends. – Michael Dumontier • I’m going to go do this crazy thing. I’m going to start this company selling books online. – Jeff Bezos • I’m not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world’s about and I understand that that’s the nature of music dissemination. – Tim Hecker • I’m not big on awareness about what’s going on online but usually if you do too much online stuff then you usually bump into something that hurts. – Alice Eve • I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. – Bill Gates • I’m working on a mixtape called I Made Hip-Hop Smile. It’s going to be a free online mixtape. I think it’s going to get some crazy buzz. We have a few marketing campaigns, that I think are going to make it pull through. – SonReal • In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn’t exist online, it didn’t exist at all. It showed me criticism’s future. – Jerry Saltz • In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to acknowledge that when the Bible speaks of fools, it is not just speaking about other people, but about them as well. Even the wisest among us has moments of folly. So God gives us spouses to serve as wise friends by praying with and for us, attending church with us, speaking truth, and providing Scripture along with good books and online classes, lectures, and sermons to nourish fruitfulness in our lives. – Mark Driscoll • In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games. – Bill Gates • In this age of omniconnectedness, words like ‘network,’ ‘community’ and even ‘friends’ no longer mean what they used to. Networks don’t exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check. – Simon Sinek • In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds. – Howard Kurtz • It is nonsense that people shopping online in some parts of Europe are unable to access the best deals because of where they live. I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. – David Cameron • It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. – Steve Jobs • It was really bizarre for me to go from being a very private and obscure person and then to be in any way on the internet – like having my picture or videos online. – Erika M. Anderson • It’s everywhere, constant criticism of women’s appearance in magazines and online. It’s not easy to navigate. – Shirley Manson • It’s fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it’s fun when the writers will come to you and say ‘Hey, listen, we’re working on this story and we need to know if you speak any foreign languages.’ And I said ‘No, I don’t. I speak a little Spanish, but I can learn a foreign language.’ And they go ‘Okay, do you think you can learn Portuguese?’ And I go ‘Yeah, whatever it takes. If it’s funny, I’ll do it.’ So of course I start looking online and learning Portuguese, and as it turns out, I get the script and it’s now Serbian. – David Alan Basche • It’s important to distinguish between “worry versus harm” when it came to privacy online. – Larry Page • It’s so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it’s all about singles, it’s really quick, it’s online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but – I don’t know what the key is. – Avril Lavigne • It’s time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education. – Bobby Jindal • It’s very important to have a good song – one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar or at the piano. It has to hold its own. That’s why I’ve put videos online with acoustic versions of my songs, so you can hear them in their original form. – Lights • It’s very much a back and forth conversation between the fans and the writers, between the writers and the powers that be. Their opinions, especially when expressed online or via correspondence, are important and are taken into consideration. – Wentworth Miller • I’ve also worked with various producers and artists around the world, which has helped with my international recognition. We’ve sold a lot of albums online in places like Norway and France. Sometimes we track my hits online daily and we are getting regular hits from people all over the place. – SonReal • I’ve gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I’m back to a flip-phone. It’s funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they’re considered antiques. – Tim Allen • I’ve made choices in my life to be somewhat broke to do art and I think it is going to be the same thing with online exposure. You have to be able to make the choices that can make you happy or it will make you crazy. – Erika M. Anderson • I’ve spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn’t have an album up online or anything. It’s been a lot of work; it definitely hasn’t been a sudden explosion into fame. – Florence Welch • I’ve started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller’s notes before sending them to me. If you’d have forwarded them to me without a translation, I’d be searching for a tall building/overpass/water tower from which to yell “goodbye cruel world. – Tammara Webber • Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and ‘Continue’ buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it’s practically a generic. – Lynda Resnick • Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It’s so important. – Danica McKellar • Kenny Goldsmith from Ubuweb describes himself as an amateur archivist, and people can download files from Ubuweb – it’s not a streaming service. But it’s a miracle that it’s still online and they’re able to make it work through the donations of server space and volunteer efforts. – David Grubbs • Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that. – Talib Kweli • Look, I don’t have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn’t in this position, I’m sure I would use it every day. – Jesse Eisenberg • Luckily, there’s enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them. – Regina Spektor • Luxury is not a static concept, but it shapes and changes with society. Now somebody who might not have the time to come to one of our boutiques can shop online. – Stefano Gabbana • Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you’re online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don’t send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you’re wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime. – Amy Webb • Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don’t normally interact with. – Jimmy Wales • Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever… unless they get a new CEO who isn’t crazy about pouring billions into a hole. – Marco Arment • Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online. – Evgeny Morozov • More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense. – Marc Andreessen • More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. – Marc Andreessen • More platform-sensitive generations will make distinctions between online and in-person intimacy, whereas fourteen-year-olds have very nuanced online selves and might embody their virtual identity in the physical, analogue version of themselves. They have a much more pluralistic understanding of the self. I don’t think we’d be here now in this amazing sexual and gender revolution without the online space where young people can see and share other versions of identity and sexuality. – Charlotte Cotton • Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What’s more, they’ve done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. – Cory Doctorow • Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch enough to tide you over for a bit.” – Rosa – Sherrilyn Kenyon • My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world. – Thomas P. Campbell • My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else. – Evgeny Morozov • My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don’t. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records. – Henry Rollins • MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just… Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is an important part of any public figure’s day. We haven’t seen it yet, but there’s going to be a generation that comes up where the new trend will be complete anonymity. It’ll be cool to have never posted anything online, commented, opened a webpage or a MySpace. I think everyone in the future is going to be allowed to be obscure for 15 minutes. You’ll have 15 minutes where no one is watching you, and then you’ll be shoved back onto your reality show. – Patton Oswalt • New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, ‘Jane is now friends with Tom.’ The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete. – Douglas Rushkoff • New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free? – Nathan Myhrvold • Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement. – Malcolm Turnbull • Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. – Bill Gates • Now, I’m as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there’s nothing like a book. – Laurie R. King • Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. – Bill Gates • Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They’re fairy tales for grown-ups. – Gena Showalter • One of the things I really like about doing work online, and the thing I like about the work I’m doing now, is that I get to meet feminists all the time and I get to read new feminists every day on the blogosphere. – Jessica Valenti • One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It’s simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who’s online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy. – Eric Schmidt • One thing we didn’t know in 1996 is that it’s very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising. – Howard Rheingold • Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but – like a good spray of buckshot – it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor. – Douglas Rushkoff • Online communities are an expression of loneliness. – Joanne Harris • Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you’re confused about it, [the area] where you’re confused can be analyzed by software. – Bill Gates • Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is. – Ben Affleck • Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane. – Gary Hamel • Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic. – Tim Ferriss • Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we’ve moved the store to the desk. Now though, she’s is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she’s tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online. – Natalie Massenet • Peak hours for sending a first email through the online dating system tended to be during work (eleven A.M. to four P.M.) and then just after dinner (seven P.M. to nine P.M.). I did have a few women send me a first message after eleven P.M. Those who did had an 82 percent chance of coming from a profile that had too many words. – Amy Webb • People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life. – Joel Stein • Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it’s probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don’t see any big political consequences out of that. – Evgeny Morozov • Point me to 50 people online who think I’m super sexy. I’ll point you to 50 more who say he’s old and looks like my dad. – Jon Hamm • Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like “future thinker”. Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure. – Amy Webb • Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song ‘Gangnam Style,’ and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports. – Ai Weiwei • Rhage burning deep inside Uncontrollable Phury, unable to hide Trust me and I’ll let my Wrath begin This Tohrment building up within My Vischous attitude will shine through ………I’ll let my Tehrror free on you -my own zsadist quote from the black dagger brotherhood that i found online – J.R. Ward • Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara. – Evgeny Morozov • San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as – as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States. – Keith Ellison • Shopping, eating, and being with my friends. So, anytime that I am at home chillin’, I will find a way to shop online. I’m like, “If I’m not allowed out of the house tonight then I am shopping online! – Miley Cyrus • Simply getting a country’s population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking. – Evgeny Morozov • Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise. – Evgeny Morozov • Social media’s currency is the single photograph. Whereas, every time I look at a photograph, I look at twenty or thirty photographs. I’m looking for a narrative. And that’s a different kind of construct. If you’re a poet and you put a line from your poem online, “The trees bending over gracefully,” or something, you can get a tick. But that has nothing to do with your longer poem. – Stuart Franklin • Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you’re quiet and you’re just not the most gregarious person, that you’re like.. I don’t know, self-involved, rude possibly, frigid. I get that a lot from people who don’t know me, like online all you guys think I never smile, ever. It’s not true. I do smile sometimes. – Kristen Stewart • Some people say that it’s so hard with the Internet, but I know for a fact that the Internet has made it easier for someone to establish themselves. There’s so much you can do online. If you know how to use it right, the web serves as the great equalizer for someone that’s just getting into business. – Jordan Belfort • Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity. – Michael Burry • Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree. – Dan Rather • Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach. – Jennifer Granholm • Term Life Insurance is the only insurance I recommend. It’s the least expensive way to get the coverage your family needs and allows you to lock in rates for 15, 20 or 30 years. Zander’s online quoting system will help you find the most competitive options. It’s more affordable than you think! – Dave Ramsey • The [Hillary] Clinton campaign posted a pretty clever online quiz that makes a similar point with the Republican presidential field. Who said it? Donald Trump or not Donald Trump? For example, quote, “I mean you can prove you are a Christian. You can`t prove it, then you err on the side of caution.” That was not Donald Trump. It was this guy, who strongly denounced Trump`s proposed Muslim ban but supports a religious test for refugees. – Chris Hayes • The actual process of travel I really like, because that time on planes and in airports makes me feel like I’m moving around like a ghost. There’s a certain aspect of justifiable downtime. I really feel like being online is so pervasive now. – Johnny Marr • The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, ‘What did I just learn? – Chris Hughes • The best remote companies I’ve seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis. – Margaret Heffernan • The best thing about the world today is that everyone is connected and you can go online and quickly find people all over the world doing incredible things. – Benjamin Stone • The biggest thing is online shopping. So that you don’t have to dress up, go down Bond Street or Rodeo or wherever, go and be intimidated by shop assistants to buy Gucci shoes or a Prada dress. You can just go online and, if it doesn’t fit you, send it back. And I think that is the biggest, biggest difference, because that means everybody can do it. – Jennifer Saunders • The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites. – Evgeny Morozov • The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom. – Evgeny Morozov • The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers. – Douglas Rushkoff • The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I’ll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away. – Marisa Miller • The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses. – Margaret Atwood • The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people’s choice award where people could vote online. – Pamela Geller • The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered. – Ali Partovi • The Internet … is an amazing communications tool that’s bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it’s just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you’ve never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you’re hearing. – Dennis Miller • The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment. – Bette Midler • The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online. – Seth Godin • The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don’t like that in much the same way that if you’re walking down the street you get harassed. I think the same kind of thing happens online, and I think that’s why a lot of women are hesitant to put their voice out there. – Jessica Valenti • The Mail Online is like carbs – you know you shouldn’t but you do. Probably two or three times a day. – Lily Allen • The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history. – Thomas P. Campbell • The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it’s the hot topic of the day doesn’t make a profitable business nor satisfied customers. That’s why it will be a part of Nintendo’s strategy, not the mainstay, as other companies are attempting to do. There still are too many barriers for any company to greatly depend on it. – Satoru Iwata • The recent arrest of Younis Tsouli in the United Kingdom was no doubt a significant victory in the war against online terrorism. Tsouli was one of a very select few individuals who have successfully used the Internet as a means to network and share resources with a host of Al-Qaida-linked terrorist organizations. – Evan Kohlmann • The Simpsons and Futurama are such big projects, going on for years and working in different media, that everything involved with them, promotion and merchandise and online presence and all the rest, deserve to be scrutinized, so that’s part of it. I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone at the core of a multimedia juggernaut, even if you might not care for the specific pop-culture invasion of your brain. The people who do it work really hard. – Matt Groening • The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I’m the sort of person who will just look for the negative – Michael really can’t understand it, but that’s just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that’s poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it’s so liberating. – Catherine Zeta-Jones • The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology. – Andrew Revkin • The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that. – Ben Affleck • The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online – Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. – and it gives us a sense of what’s breaking through, what isn’t, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time. – Daniel Pfeiffer • The worst thing about the internet, as far as Greg’s bosses were concerned, was that it was now impossible to distinguish a roomful of people working diligently from a roomful of people taking the What-Kind-of-Dog-Am-I? online personality quiz – Rainbow Rowell • There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere. – Dick Cavett • There is evil prowling in the world – it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds. – Rick Perry • There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now. – Thom Yorke • There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it’ll change. – Tim Willits • There’s a lot of controversy online, some people say i’m a genius and other say i’m hugely talented. – Andy Kindler • There’s always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you’re hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that. – Bill Gates • There’s nothing that beats proving you’re funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online. – Louis C. K. • There’s tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time. – Henry Rollins • Things have a behavior online, whereas in print, there is a single canonical expression for them, but online everything responds to different criteria or has inherent states to it based on that criteria. So, you have to design that in a different way. It’s a completely different dynamic even though it may look similar. – Khoi Vinh • Today Monopoly added a new game piece: the cat. The new piece was chosen after weeks of online voting. Is that a surprise? Whenever there’s a vote for something on the Internet, the cat always wins. – Craig Ferguson • Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures. – Mark Zuckerberg • Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online. – Ted Cruz • We [me and Jennifer Salke] talked about the characters and different kinds of families and where are we today. We certainly pitched the gay couple, but we also talked about what it was like to be a single mother with a young daughter, what is it like to be a woman in your 50’s who is completely starting over and dating again and having to go online to date again. We talked about the whole spectrum of the characters, but I don’t think it ever came up about whether people are ready for it or not. – Ryan T. Murphy • We all have a suspicion and hope that we’ve just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can’t, sort of like having a superpower that’s not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It’s a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect. – Rob Lowe • We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. – Nate Silver • We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning. – Andy Hargreaves • We in CNN have 27 reporters out in the field – from Alaska to Florida, and everywhere in between. 29 if you count the White House and the Hill. We are in every key state, in every key district and on the ground where key issues are playing out. Political campaigns’ success is all about the ground game and CNN feels the same way about election coverage. Expect to see original reporting from all our remote locations all night long. On air and online. – Andrew Morse • We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I’d like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online. – Will Packer • We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. – Carly Fiorina • We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent. – Marco Rubio • We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors’. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008) – Carlos Ruiz Zafon • We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes – Bonnie Greer • We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people – and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through. – Christopher Meloni • We’re at a point in time in our history of humanity where the systems we use for mass production have to be reevaluated, and it first struck me that online communities are a way to have local production with a universal reach. – Mary Mattingly • What’s always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you’re in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience. – Chris Milk • When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist, and we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online. – Al Franken • When it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, “Oh, I’ll start doing this. I’ll put the parts online that aren’t going to get me in trouble. I’ll save the rest for myself.” It became also this kind of self-therapy. I could write about stuff that was bothering me, or personal stuff. And the very personal stuff I could edit out. But it was kind of the catharsis of getting it out and writing about it, that made me think, “Okay, I see why people do this, why they keep these diaries.” So I thought, “Well, let’s see what happens when I post some of it.” – David Byrne • When it comes to people who are saying really extreme things online, we have the tendency to think that they are just kooks, or that you shouldn’t pay attention to them, you shouldn’t take them seriously. – Jessica Valenti • When something online is free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product. – Jonathan Zittrain • When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven’t been very successful. – Peter Gabriel • When you think about email or IMing, why aren’t you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you’re online, why aren’t you writing me back? But with Twitter, everybody sends their responses to Twitter, and Twitter then sends them out to everyone. So there’s not this constant connection. You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine. – Biz Stone • When you’re doing stuff online, you should behave as if you’re doing it in public – because increasingly, it is. – Jon Kleinberg • Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you’re like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories. – Daniel Radcliffe • Why the confidential advisor provision is so important, because most women – the first place they go is online: “What do I do if I’m raped?” There’s no knowledge about “How do I proceed?” in a way that’s going to protect them. – Kirsten Gillibrand • With any video you see online, like with YouTube, you gotta watch an ad, and that’s gotta stop. And I think it’ll stop by…the shitty network shows they put out will just have the ads in the shows. The characters will be eating Cheetos or whatever. – Derek Waters • With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired – the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later – Marc Andreessen • With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don’t have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble. – Brad Furman • Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time – like going to a nice restaurant. – Max Azria • Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. ‘Little Kid Lover.’ That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at. – Steve Carell • You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can’t get enough. You are addicted to Apple. – J. B. Smoove • You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what’s out there. I find that a little overwhelming. – Moby • You know, it’s not a given that there is an ‘online’ and ‘offline’ world out there. When you use the telephone, you don’t say that I’m entering some ‘telephono-sphere.’ You don’t say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem. – Evgeny Morozov • You put a group of people in that come from a variety of backgrounds and who are out there in the world with different opinions and different ways of expressing themselves online. It’s hard to say. – Allison Grodner • You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don’t think hellions are much into social networking. – Rachel Vincent

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Afternoon MAGAthread: YOUR WEEKLY PRESIDENTIAL RECAP!

GOOD AFTERNOON DEPLORABLES!

Welcome to your weekly recap of all things dank and spicy from the past week! For those that missed any past recaps you can check those out here!

Sunday, April 7th:

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

Looks like Bob Mueller’s team of 13 Trump Haters & Angry Democrats are illegally leaking information to the press while the Fake News Media make up their own stories with or without sources - sources no longer matter to our corrupt & dishonest Mainstream Media, they are a Joke!

Pleased to report that the American tourist and tour guide that were abducted in Uganda have been released. God bless them and their families!

(Retweeting VP Mike Pence) The last 2 years, under @RealDonaldTrump, have been 2 years of action – it’s been 2 years of results – & it’s been 2 years of promises made and promises kept! #MAGA

(Retweeting VP Mike Pence) .@RealDonaldTrump is doing his job to SECURE OUR BORDER! @CBP is doing their job. It’s time for Congress to do its job and CLOSE THE LOOPHOLES in our immigration laws & end the CRISIS on our southern border!

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service.... ... ....I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for @DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!

More apprehensions (captures) at the Southern Border than in many years. Border Patrol amazing! Country is FULL! System has been broken for many years. Democrats in Congress must agree to fix loopholes - No Open Borders (Crimes & Drugs). Will Close Southern Border If necessary... ... ....Mexico must apprehend all illegals and not let them make the long march up to the United States, or we will have no other choice than to Close the Border and/or institute Tariffs. Our Country is FULL!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

James Woods - Cherishing diverse body types is a good thing, but this is no more productive than making smoking look “cool.”

Woman loses job for calling Jewish Trump supporter a Nazi, at Commiefornia Starbucks

Obama shatters previous record, mentions himself 467 times in one speech in Berlin

Mexican with a Trump hat gets harassed by psycho liberal trans (?)

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

Every. Fucking. Time. They play this card every fucking time, and they can't not play this card, even when the playing of it is mind-bogglingly stupid. It's their favorite and only argument.

Best Episode of Reliable Sources EVER

🐕 Biden's Cone Of Shame 🐕

US vs. them

Found this beautiful photo and wanted to share it with you guys. Toxic Masculinity in action

Monday, April 8th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

Proclamation on National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, 2019

President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial Nominations

President Trump Visits the New Border Wall

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

“The reason the whole process seems so politicized is that Democrats made up this complete lie about Collusion ....and none of it happened.” Charles Hurt. The Russian Hoax never happened, it was a fraud on the American people!

“Jerry Nadler is not entitled to this information. He is doing this to get it to the Democrat 2020 nominee.” @KatiePavlich

(Retweeting Jim Jordan) Dem talk: -Abolish ICE -Borderless hemisphere -Walls are immoral -Illegals should vote -Raise taxes @POTUS action: -Regs reduced -Taxes cut -Econ growing -5 million new jobs -Justices Gorsuch AND Kavanaugh -Out of Iran deal -Embassy in Jerusalem -Hostages home from NK -New NAFTA

(Retweeting Jim Jordan) Dems want President’s tax returns for purely political purposes! Frightening, but shouldn’t surprise us—same folks used the IRS to target Americans for their political beliefs!

(Retweeting C-SPAN) Rep. @Jim_Jordan on President Trump's tax returns: "There's no law that says they have to be public." Watch full #Newsmakers interview tonight at 10pm ET on C-SPAN https://cs.pn

Uganda must find the kidnappers of the American Tourist and guide before people will feel safe in going there. Bring them to justice openly and quickly!

The Democrats will never be satisfied, no matter what they get, how much they get, or how many pages they get. It will never end, but that’s the way life goes!

Congratulations to the Baylor Lady Bears on their amazing win last night against Notre Dame to become the 2019 NCAA Women’s Basketball National Champions!

A 9th Circuit Judge just ruled that Mexico is too dangerous for migrants. So unfair to the U.S. OUT OF CONTROL!

(Retweeting Official Team Trump) BIGGER paychecks under President @realDonaldTrump! 💰

Congratulations to Virginia - Great game!

(Retweeting The White House) The newly constructed 30-foot wall in Calexico, CA, replaces a barrier made of surplus corrugated steel landing mats from the Vietnam War—and border officials tell President @realDonaldTrump it's making a crucial difference. 1600 Daily: http://45.wh.gov/5yKBD8

(Retweeting Ronna McDaniel) Our economy is on fire. Jobs are up, unemployment is at record lows, and wages are still rising. But Democrats would rather lie about @realDonaldTrump than acknowledge all of his economic successes.

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

Moment of prayer with Military leaders at the White House

HEY NANCY, PUT UP OR SHUT UP.

Rep. Nunes refers 8 people to Justice Department for prosecution. Crimes include lying to Congress and lying to the FISA court about the warrant for Carter Page.

Trump designates Iran's Revolutionary Guard a 'foreign terrorist organization'

Fucked around and almost found out. A responsible gun owner in Chi-raq. Notice nobody cares until he can defend himself.

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

A big part of Twitter is garbage

This meme triggered a lot of communists yesterday.

Future is bright!

Friendly reminder: John Oliver violated the terms of his work visa when he joined the writers strike a few years ago. He is in this country ILLEGALLY!

4th wave feminism...?

Tuesday, April 9th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

President Trump Welcomes the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt

President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Ivanka Trump on the New Doubled Child Tax Credit

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

The World Trade Organization finds that the European Union subsidies to Airbus has adversely impacted the United States, which will now put Tariffs on $11 Billion of EU products! The EU has taken advantage of the U.S. on trade for many years. It will soon stop!

Congressman Jerry Nadler fought me for years on a very large development I built on the West Side of Manhattan. He wanted a Rail Yard built underneath the development or even better, to stop the job. He didn’t get either & the development became VERY successful. Nevertheless,.... ... ....I got along very well with Jerry during the zoning and building process. Then I changed course (slightly), became President, and now I am dealing with Congressman Nadler again. Some things never end, but hopefully it will all go well for everyone. Only time will tell!

The Mainstream Media has never been more inaccurate or corrupt than it is today. It only seems to get worse. So much Fake News!

On National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, we honor the Americans captured and imprisoned by foreign powers while carrying out their duties to defend this great Nation...

“What’s completely unacceptable is for Congesswoman Omar to target Jews, in this case Stephen Miller.” Jeff Ballabon, B2 Strategic, CEO. @Varneyco

Video

“She (Congresswoman Omar) keeps on assaulting Jews...” Jeff Ballabon, B2 Strategic, CEO

Today, it was my great honor to welcome President @AlsisiOfficial of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the @WhiteHouse!

Check this out - TRUTH!

THANK YOU, WORKING HARD!

“The underlying issue remains the same without a single American being indicted for Collusion with Russia, & that is a stunning end considering we were led to believe (Fake News) that something much more dramatic would happen. Why did people fall for this?” @TuckerCarlson Molly H

The Democrats must end the loopholes on immigration. So easy to solve!

(Retweeting Tammy Bruce) Trump Job Approval Jumps to 53% - Seven Points Higher Than Obama

Everybody is now acknowledging that, right from the time I announced my run for President, I was 100% correct on the Border. Remember the heat I took? Democrats should now get rid of the loopholes. The Border is being fixed. Mexico will not let people through!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

After 8 years of being a Democrat, leaving the Left & Supporting Trump was the most empowering thing I've done! You guys are the most accepting community & I'm going for my carry permit soon, too! Thank you!

Pentagon has awarded nearly $1 billion in contracts to build President Trump’s border wall with the construction set to end in October 2020.

Barr reveals he is reviewing ‘conduct’ of FBI’s original Russia probe

WINNING: President Trump's Job Approval Jumps to 53% – Seven Points Higher Than Obama

PewDiePie just took a MAJOR shit on YouTube and Twitch by announcing an exclusive live-streaming contract with DLive (Blockchain) and is offering $50K for charity. It was only a matter of time. GG.

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

Remember that time in history that 3rd graders knew the truth way before CNN?

MRW when liberals keep whining but who cares cause the country is doing great

GEOTUS we love you

Dissapointed as fukk.

GEOTUS Has Known About 0bama's Spygate for YEARS

Wednesday, April 10th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

One Nomination and One Withdrawal Sent to the Senate

Executive Order on Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth

Order on the Issuance of Permits with Respect to Facilities and Land Transportation Crossings at the International Boundaries of the United States

President Trump Delivers a Statement Upon Departure

President Trump Delivers Remarks and Signs an Executive Order on Energy & Infrastructure

President Trump Delivers Remarks and Signs an Executive Order on Energy & Infrastructure

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

Trump flags being waived at the Bibi @Netanyahu VICTORY celebration last night!

Spoke to Bibi @Netanyahu to congratulate him on a great and hard-fought win. The United States is with him and the People of Israel all the way!

So, it has now been determined, by 18 people that truly hate President Trump, that there was No Collusion with Russia. In fact, it was an illegal investigation that should never have been allowed to start. I fought back hard against this Phony & Treasonous Hoax!

Join me in Crosby, Texas as I deliver remarks and sign Executive Orders on Energy and Infrastructure!

THANK YOU Texas, I love you!

CONGRATULATIONS to @EricTrump and @LaraLeaTrump on the great news. So proud!

(Retweeting Homeland Security) Today, @CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan was sworn-in to lead DHS as the Acting Secretary. The ceremony took place at the new DHS Headquarters at St. Elizabeth’s.

I think what the Democrats are doing with the Border is TREASONOUS. Their Open Border mindset is putting our Country at risk. Will not let this happen!

Too bad that the European Union is being so tough on the United Kingdom and Brexit. The E.U. is likewise a brutal trading partner with the United States, which will change. Sometimes in life you have to let people breathe before it all comes back to bite you!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

Barr: I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal

BREAKING: Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok could face ‘serious’ charges for his involvement and actions while at FBI | READ and SHARE

Barr Confirms Multiple Intel Agencies Implicated In Anti-Trump Spy Operation

Ilhan Omar Claims “Dangerous Incitement” By Dan Crenshaw For Directly Quoting Her

Sad to see an @ATT owned company pull such a great video made by an every day American in good fun. AT&T now owns @CNN and is positioning themselves as a weapon of the left.

VP Pence obliterates the Venezuelan socialist regime at the UN

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

Red pill dropped in the wild 💊

KABOOOOOOM!!!!!1111

The older I get, the more I relate with Hank.

MRW liberals are losing their minds over three letters .... SPY

Thursday, April 11th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

Eight Nominations and One Withdrawal Sent to the Senate

President Trump Meets with the President of the Republic of Korea

President Trump Greets World War ll Veterans

President Trump and the First Lady Meet with the President and First Lady of South Korea

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

Great News! #MAGA

"SPY GAMES: TIME FOR ANSWERS"

"Biggest scandal of our time - the coup that failed!" @MariaBartiromo

Beautiful afternoon in the Oval Office today with a few great American HEROES!

House Democrats want to negotiate a $2 TRILLION spending increase but can’t even pass their own plan. We can’t afford it anyway, and it’s not happening!

(Retweeting Arthur Schwartz) Wow. @tedlieu got a well deserved ass kicking. Shame on you Ted.

“And the Radical Dems reeling in disarray as the President continues to Win, Win and Win again! The Left is PRETENDING to be shocked by A.G. William Barr’s testimony before Congress in which he said SPYING did occur on the Trump 2016 Campaign.” @LouDobbs @FoxNews

(Retweeting The Daily Caller) Rod Rosenstein Defends Attorney General’s Handling Of Mueller Report

(Retweeting The Daily Caller) Every CNN Presidential Town Hall Finished Behind MSNBC And Fox News In Ratings

(Retweeting Chuck Woolery) President Trump continues to tally up wins for our country as Americans just saw the best income gains in over 50 years. Listen to today’s #BFT Minute to find out more. https://buff.ly/2KHGBQQ

JOBLESS CLAIMS AT 50 YEAR LOW!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested In London

ROASTED 😁😁

But now it’s just bigotry. Foot in mouth syndrome.

He's 100% right. The dishonest and corrupt media would NEVER have told us the truth. The world needed the information we learned. Without it, we'd probably be living in their new world order by now.

Posted by the legendary, Imam Mohamad Tawhidi (@imamofpeace)

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

The mighty morphing Democrat rangers

New York Post 4/11 Cover Calls Out that Nasty Woman

Time traveler confirmed!

THROWBACK THURSDAY March 20, 2017 - Vox: "All of Trump’s wiretap claims have now officially been debunked by the FBI and NSA". OOPSIE

To Corey Booker. From Bill.

Friday, April 12th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

President Trump and the First Lady Meet with the President and First Lady of South Korea

President Trump Delivers Remarks on United States 5G Deployment

President Donald J. Trump Announces Appointments for the Executive Office of the President

President Donald J. Trump Announces Nominations of Individuals to Key Administration Posts

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

“I don’t need to know any more. We’re done, absolutely done, he (Mueller) tried the case. There’s NO COLLUSION.” @LindseyGrahamSC @foxandfriends No matter what we do or give to the Radical Left, it will never be enough!

President Obama’s top White House lawyer, Gregory B. Craig, was indicted yesterday on very serious charges. This is a really big story, but the Fake News New York Times didn’t even put it on page one, rather page 16. @washingtonpost not much better, “tiny” page one. Corrupt News!

“Democrats don’t like the results of the Mueller Report, so now they’re trying everything else.” @RepDougCollins They should stop wasting time and money and get back to real legislating, especially on the Border!

Even the Democrats now say that our Southern Border is a Crisis and a National Emergency. Hopefully, we will not be getting any more BAD (outrageous) court decisions!

Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only.... ... ....The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!

WSJ's Strassel: Barr 'Right' to Say 'Spying' Occurred on Trump Campaign | Breitbart http://bit.ly/2VHDlKn via @BreitbartNews

WE WILL NEVER FORGET!

If the Radical Left Democrats all of a sudden don’t want the Illegal Migrants in their Sanctuary Cities (no more open arms), why should others be expected to take them into their communities? Go home and come into our Country legally and through a system of Merit!

Thank you Jeh, so well stated!

Finally, great news at the Border! https://twitter.com/axios/status/1116872379324612608 …

A Fake Story by Politico. Made up sources. Thank you Mount Vernon!

Another Fake Story on @NBCNews that I offered Pardons to Homeland Securiy personnel in case they broke the law regarding illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. Of course this is not true. Mainstream Media is corrupt and getting worse, if that is possible, every day!

In New York State, Democrats blocked a Bill expanding College Tuition for Gold Star families after approving aid for illegal immigrants. No wonder so many people are leaving N.Y. Very Sad!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

NY Dems block bill expanding college tuition for Gold Star families after approving $27M in tuition aid for illegal aliens

Avenatti Accused of Hiding $4M Settlement from ‘Mentally Ill Paraplegic’ Client, Faces Up to 335 Years in Prison

Networks Give One Minute to Obama Counsel Indictment, Gave Manafort’s 60 Percent of Airtime

OUT OUT OUT! The Latest: Court allows return of asylum seekers to Mexico.

Censorship is real

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

“Some people did something.”

I can’t wait to look back in history when I’m telling my grandchildren how Conservative Americans won the culture war with memes like this

With the 5 Liberal Forces Combined you get ...

HOW DARE HIM!!!!

Reeesistance Member Sets Self Ablaze Outside White House, circa 2019

Saturday, April 13th:

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

I agree with Kim Jong Un of North Korea that our personal relationship remains very good, perhaps the term excellent would be even more accurate, and that a third Summit would be good in that we fully understand where we each stand. North Korea has tremendous potential for....... ... ...extraordinary growth, economic success and riches under the leadership of Chairman Kim. I look forward to the day, which could be soon, when Nuclear Weapons and Sanctions can be removed, and then watching North Korea become one of the most successful nations of the World!

Why should Radical Left Democrats in Congress have a right to retry and examine the $35,000,000 (two years in the making) No Collusion Mueller Report, when the crime committed was by Crooked Hillary, the DNC and Dirty Cops? Attorney General Barr will make the decision!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

BUSTED: Mount Vernon Debunks Politico's Fake News Story About Trump's Visit To Washington's Estate

A white child was callously thrown to his potential death only a few days after Congress held a sham hearing on white nationalism and tried to blame it for "hate crimes." The real rise in anti-white crime and hatred will of course get no congressional hearing.

Man Asks Swedes if they would take Refugees into their own homes, get's Pelosi'd

FITTON: HUGE Update: President Trump Vindicated and Hillary Clinton Implicated. SpyGate CONFIRMED--& Smoking Gun Clinton Email Cover-Up Docs. PLUS Fed helping illegal aliens send billions to Mexico.

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

It really do be like this

Remember when President Trump used to recite 'The Snake'

Looking ahead, this is the favorite to win next years masters. Get your bets in now Pedes!

The Video Michael Avenatti AND The Liberal Media will want removed off the internet

Blink blink ... wat

MOTHA FUCKIN WEEEEEW LAD!!!! SO MUCH WINNING!

Without further ado, some tunes to get you jamming through all this winning:

Move On

Lose Yourself To Dance

Can I kick it

Gold

Who Do You Love

Sunflower

MAGA ON PATRIOTS!

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GOOD AFTERNOON DEPLORABLES!Welcome to your weekly recap of all things dank and spicy from the past week! For those that missed any past recaps you can check those out here!Sunday, April 7th:🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Looks like Bob Mueller’s team of 13 Trump Haters & Angry Democrats are illegally leaking information to the press while the Fake News Media make up their own stories with or without sources - sources no longer matter to our corrupt & dishonest Mainstream Media, they are a Joke!Pleased to report that the American tourist and tour guide that were abducted in Uganda have been released. God bless them and their families!(Retweeting VP Mike Pence) The last 2 years, under @RealDonaldTrump, have been 2 years of action – it’s been 2 years of results – & it’s been 2 years of promises made and promises kept! #MAGA(Retweeting VP Mike Pence) .@RealDonaldTrump is doing his job to SECURE OUR BORDER! @CBP is doing their job. It’s time for Congress to do its job and CLOSE THE LOOPHOLES in our immigration laws & end the CRISIS on our southern border!Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service.... ... ....I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for @DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!More apprehensions (captures) at the Southern Border than in many years. Border Patrol amazing! Country is FULL! System has been broken for many years. Democrats in Congress must agree to fix loopholes - No Open Borders (Crimes & Drugs). Will Close Southern Border If necessary... ... ....Mexico must apprehend all illegals and not let them make the long march up to the United States, or we will have no other choice than to Close the Border and/or institute Tariffs. Our Country is FULL!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:James Woods - Cherishing diverse body types is a good thing, but this is no more productive than making smoking look “cool.”Woman loses job for calling Jewish Trump supporter a Nazi, at Commiefornia StarbucksObama shatters previous record, mentions himself 467 times in one speech in BerlinMexican with a Trump hat gets harassed by psycho liberal trans (?)🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Every. Fucking. Time. They play this card every fucking time, and they can't not play this card, even when the playing of it is mind-bogglingly stupid. It's their favorite and only argument.Best Episode of Reliable Sources EVER🐕 Biden's Cone Of Shame 🐕US vs. themFound this beautiful photo and wanted to share it with you guys. Toxic Masculinity in actionMonday, April 8th:TODAY'S ACTION:Proclamation on National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, 2019President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial NominationsPresident Trump Visits the New Border Wall🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:“The reason the whole process seems so politicized is that Democrats made up this complete lie about Collusion ....and none of it happened.” Charles Hurt. The Russian Hoax never happened, it was a fraud on the American people!“Jerry Nadler is not entitled to this information. He is doing this to get it to the Democrat 2020 nominee.” @KatiePavlich(Retweeting Jim Jordan) Dem talk: -Abolish ICE -Borderless hemisphere -Walls are immoral -Illegals should vote -Raise taxes @POTUS action: -Regs reduced -Taxes cut -Econ growing -5 million new jobs -Justices Gorsuch AND Kavanaugh -Out of Iran deal -Embassy in Jerusalem -Hostages home from NK -New NAFTA(Retweeting Jim Jordan) Dems want President’s tax returns for purely political purposes! Frightening, but shouldn’t surprise us—same folks used the IRS to target Americans for their political beliefs!(Retweeting C-SPAN) Rep. @Jim_Jordan on President Trump's tax returns: "There's no law that says they have to be public." Watch full #Newsmakers interview tonight at 10pm ET on C-SPAN http://bit.ly/2IlbE7g must find the kidnappers of the American Tourist and guide before people will feel safe in going there. Bring them to justice openly and quickly!The Democrats will never be satisfied, no matter what they get, how much they get, or how many pages they get. It will never end, but that’s the way life goes!Congratulations to the Baylor Lady Bears on their amazing win last night against Notre Dame to become the 2019 NCAA Women’s Basketball National Champions!A 9th Circuit Judge just ruled that Mexico is too dangerous for migrants. So unfair to the U.S. OUT OF CONTROL!(Retweeting Official Team Trump) BIGGER paychecks under President @realDonaldTrump! 💰Congratulations to Virginia - Great game!(Retweeting The White House) The newly constructed 30-foot wall in Calexico, CA, replaces a barrier made of surplus corrugated steel landing mats from the Vietnam War—and border officials tell President @realDonaldTrump it's making a crucial difference. 1600 Daily: http://bit.ly/2Jiqzk0 Ronna McDaniel) Our economy is on fire. Jobs are up, unemployment is at record lows, and wages are still rising. But Democrats would rather lie about @realDonaldTrump than acknowledge all of his economic successes.SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Moment of prayer with Military leaders at the White HouseHEY NANCY, PUT UP OR SHUT UP.Rep. Nunes refers 8 people to Justice Department for prosecution. Crimes include lying to Congress and lying to the FISA court about the warrant for Carter Page.Trump designates Iran's Revolutionary Guard a 'foreign terrorist organization'Fucked around and almost found out. A responsible gun owner in Chi-raq. Notice nobody cares until he can defend himself.🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:A big part of Twitter is garbageThis meme triggered a lot of communists yesterday.Future is bright!Friendly reminder: John Oliver violated the terms of his work visa when he joined the writers strike a few years ago. He is in this country ILLEGALLY!4th wave feminism...?Tuesday, April 9th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Trump Welcomes the President of the Arab Republic of EgyptPresident Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Arab Republic of EgyptIvanka Trump on the New Doubled Child Tax Credit🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:The World Trade Organization finds that the European Union subsidies to Airbus has adversely impacted the United States, which will now put Tariffs on $11 Billion of EU products! The EU has taken advantage of the U.S. on trade for many years. It will soon stop!Congressman Jerry Nadler fought me for years on a very large development I built on the West Side of Manhattan. He wanted a Rail Yard built underneath the development or even better, to stop the job. He didn’t get either & the development became VERY successful. Nevertheless,.... ... ....I got along very well with Jerry during the zoning and building process. Then I changed course (slightly), became President, and now I am dealing with Congressman Nadler again. Some things never end, but hopefully it will all go well for everyone. Only time will tell!The Mainstream Media has never been more inaccurate or corrupt than it is today. It only seems to get worse. So much Fake News!On National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, we honor the Americans captured and imprisoned by foreign powers while carrying out their duties to defend this great Nation...“What’s completely unacceptable is for Congesswoman Omar to target Jews, in this case Stephen Miller.” Jeff Ballabon, B2 Strategic, CEO. @VarneycoVideo“She (Congresswoman Omar) keeps on assaulting Jews...” Jeff Ballabon, B2 Strategic, CEOToday, it was my great honor to welcome President @AlsisiOfficial of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the @WhiteHouse!Check this out - TRUTH!THANK YOU, WORKING HARD!“The underlying issue remains the same without a single American being indicted for Collusion with Russia, & that is a stunning end considering we were led to believe (Fake News) that something much more dramatic would happen. Why did people fall for this?” @TuckerCarlson Molly HThe Democrats must end the loopholes on immigration. 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Thank you!Pentagon has awarded nearly $1 billion in contracts to build President Trump’s border wall with the construction set to end in October 2020.Barr reveals he is reviewing ‘conduct’ of FBI’s original Russia probeWINNING: President Trump's Job Approval Jumps to 53% – Seven Points Higher Than ObamaPewDiePie just took a MAJOR shit on YouTube and Twitch by announcing an exclusive live-streaming contract with DLive (Blockchain) and is offering $50K for charity. It was only a matter of time. 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The United States is with him and the People of Israel all the way!So, it has now been determined, by 18 people that truly hate President Trump, that there was No Collusion with Russia. In fact, it was an illegal investigation that should never have been allowed to start. I fought back hard against this Phony & Treasonous Hoax!Join me in Crosby, Texas as I deliver remarks and sign Executive Orders on Energy and Infrastructure!THANK YOU Texas, I love you!CONGRATULATIONS to @EricTrump and @LaraLeaTrump on the great news. So proud!(Retweeting Homeland Security) Today, @CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan was sworn-in to lead DHS as the Acting Secretary. The ceremony took place at the new DHS Headquarters at St. Elizabeth’s.I think what the Democrats are doing with the Border is TREASONOUS. Their Open Border mindset is putting our Country at risk. Will not let this happen!Too bad that the European Union is being so tough on the United Kingdom and Brexit. 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Without it, we'd probably be living in their new world order by now.Posted by the legendary, Imam Mohamad Tawhidi (@imamofpeace)🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:The mighty morphing Democrat rangersNew York Post 4/11 Cover Calls Out that Nasty WomanTime traveler confirmed!THROWBACK THURSDAY March 20, 2017 - Vox: "All of Trump’s wiretap claims have now officially been debunked by the FBI and NSA". OOPSIETo Corey Booker. From Bill.Friday, April 12th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Trump and the First Lady Meet with the President and First Lady of South KoreaPresident Trump Delivers Remarks on United States 5G DeploymentPresident Donald J. Trump Announces Appointments for the Executive Office of the PresidentPresident Donald J. Trump Announces Nominations of Individuals to Key Administration Posts🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:“I don’t need to know any more. We’re done, absolutely done, he (Mueller) tried the case. There’s NO COLLUSION.” @LindseyGrahamSC @foxandfriends No matter what we do or give to the Radical Left, it will never be enough!President Obama’s top White House lawyer, Gregory B. Craig, was indicted yesterday on very serious charges. This is a really big story, but the Fake News New York Times didn’t even put it on page one, rather page 16. @washingtonpost not much better, “tiny” page one. Corrupt News!“Democrats don’t like the results of the Mueller Report, so now they’re trying everything else.” @RepDougCollins They should stop wasting time and money and get back to real legislating, especially on the Border!Even the Democrats now say that our Southern Border is a Crisis and a National Emergency. 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Tactical Pain Episode 011 Fisher Wallace Stimulator

This week Jeni Mc interviews Charles Fisher, a serial entrepreneur and the son of radio pioneer Avery Fisher.  Specifically, they talk about the Fisher Wallace Stimulator® as a possible option to reduce pain and depression.    This episode is sponsored by DiPSy Doodle Productions Voice Talent Dave Holly https://www.dazzleshows.com/dipsy Fisher Wallace Stimulator® https://www.fisherwallace.com/ [su_spoiler title="Machine Transcript"] [0:57] What's that was nice to be tactical pain podcast i'm your host any mac and as always we are here to talk about are very real pain and real strategies for a better life. Today we're going to talk about. [1:14] That's cool that we may be able to use to improve our life weather is there pain relief or relieving other conditions that often come with chronic pain. Specifically today we're gonna talk about cranium electric there be. What is that have to do with pain obviously the idea electric there be sounds like it might cause some pain our might bring images your mind from. Classic movies of insane asylum is an electro shock therapy. That's not really what we're talking about today although it is science born of the original work with electric shock therapy and how it treats depression. [1:59] Currently you can buy over the counter which means you can you can purchase it without a true prescription are without. Being seen by a doctor there are devices that are fda cleared that our neuro stimulation devices. No it was chronic pain have the tens units the trans derm all electoral stimulation devices you put the gel pads on. That's your back or your shoulders you know you apply it directly she that little poles your muscles contracted helps relax and and release tension and pain. Could you also be used for some people with nothing the when they use devices like that it is stimulates the nerves in such a way that it disguises the pain. [2:52] Basically cranial stimulation works in the same way these devices are. Here to be used on the head as most of you that i use a tens unit no. They will expressly say do not put this on your head enough of this on your neck it's not really designed for that. [3:14] These devices are designed for us and they are fda approved to treat depression anxiety and insomnia. Specifically today the device for gonna talk about we're going to have shit fisher from fisher was laboratories he is the present official laws laboratories we're gonna talk with him my phone about. The fisher wallace stimulator and what it offers and some of the science behind it just a couple things. Before we get into the car with chips. Fisher wallace the website is fisher wallace dot com that's f is he are we a ll a c fisher wallace dot com. And there is you doing prescription from a medical doctor or an authorization from any health care practitioner. So i could be your your doctor psychiatrist but it can also be a chiropractor on yours practitioner social worker. They are their website lists even a dietician nutritionist. You could have your medical doctor actually write a prescription but on their website they have a form that can be filled out. And they do also have for an added fee of eighteen dollars they have a practitioner that will authorize that form for you. So [4:41] That's that's really the easiest thing to do if your purchasing it because most people in your shopping on line it's it's in the middle of night you're not planning on. Going in a senior back and doing anything about it you just. Making this purchase for you for yourself so they do have a purchase authorization on my form and. I did ask them what is the the purpose of the authorization form of this is over the counter products why do i need. [5:14] To have some medical practitioner especially when is it gonna actually see me sign this form and that's that apparently is that is required by the fda. Fda approvals and things like that. I'm sure that they need to document where and when that they're they're sending these items out. So that is something that they as as an fda approved products are required to abide by. [5:44] They're device works alternating currents some people have. Be more familiar with over the counter with direct train devices this is an alternating current devise. They've had studies double blind studies placebo studies things like that. Where there studies show that the fee alternating current is more effective. When is stimulating the brain tissue and how that can help with depression anxiety and insomnia which obviously we're living with chronic pain your probably also living with some amount of all three of those conditions. [6:25] It stimulates the part of the brain that helps. Stimulate serotonin transporters there tone and we all know that their tone and is the happy hormone that helps us feel better house does. Often sleep better it is me it is the part of the brain that it's. [6:45] Helps with memory formation and helps with mood so those are things that again. Regardless of what you diagnosis for chronic pain. I think we all star to deal with brain fog i know our listeners that have fibromyalgia that is a core part of our tradition were often fighting find ways to stimulate our memory and. And concentration things like that but if you live with chronic pain long enough you'll be affected by that fog no matter who you are. [7:25] Also the device works and promoting the brain patterns that trigger rem sleep rem sleep is. The sleep where we we actually going to a deeper sleep and we dream a lot of people. With chronic pain insomnia we like to call it pain insomnia. Where were never dropping all the way down into that deep level sleep where we're really getting rest and am really getting recharged so. [7:54] Stimulating that without adding any drugs you're reading and a lot of people are. [8:02] Trying to avoid as much as they can to use anything that's too sensitive session you trying to leave your life you don't want anything that's gonna give you that hangover feeling of being sedate longer than you want to be. So to have the opportunity to try something that might stimulate a natural response. [8:24] And brianna that deeper level of sleep its is very interesting to consider the device is designed to be used twice a day for twenty minutes. So [8:35] There's probably some school of thought that if i use schedule myself to twenty min sessions where i sit alone and still and in the quiet and relax that alone will probably be good for me. But adding the. Average the device to maybe stimulate serotonin or some rest relaxation i can see the benefits of trying that. There are people that have a vaccine. You know discussion forms on line and things like that were they talk about using it more times a day. [9:13] Apparently there's a little you know very little risk of overuse in using one of these devices. But using it more often or or a higher frequency higher setting you might not get the result that you intend to it might trigger alertness when you. Are trying for your relaxation or things like that is not the kind of thing that you would develop a tolerance to. The device is working and then national process of the brain. It is just a stimulating device is not something that you could. [9:52] Become immune to after while i do see where people talk about it stops working for them after a while i don't know if so much of a case of. The device. Is it doing anything for them or maybe it's done all that i can do maybe their bodies plateau study hard to quantify without more testing. [10:17] It is approved for the treatment of anxiety. And alot of people to do things it also do with through panic attacks which are. They can they can stop your life in a heartbeat one of the questions that i did ask was. What if your in a panic attack is this something that i can sit down put it on and it would stop the attack. Or is this more of a preventive device where i need to be using it on a regular basis. The device is more designed for slow and steady improvement is something that should be used over time and it really wouldn't treat the acute onset of a panic attack. So like. Oh i people taking medication that is there emergency rescue medication for panic attacks this would not be considered an emergency rescue device this to be something that you would want to plan to use and use regularly. [11:18] So it's definitely something i think. Is very interesting to me is something i've tried in used tens unit before i have used electric stimulation approach somebody. I myself experience. Unfortunately courses are chevrolets can i use one of these devices so i have to determine that the pain that i'm using it tree whether it's to lose the trigger pointer shoulder pain or whatever. I know that in the next day to three days i will probably have a lease flare. That's just how my body responds to it it does help relieve the pain and the tension but i'm going to have a. [12:03] That's just me it can be different for other people but i have. Been afraid to try something like this because i think that the idea of. [12:16] Putting it on my head and trying it is going to cause this and. So those are some questions i'm gonna be asking chip again we're gonna be talking to check fisher he is the president of fisher wallace laboratories and we're gonna discuss the fisher wallace stimulator. And let's get shipped on the line. We've rectangle give tactical once again you jenny back. I am in your area good using. Very well thank you for having me on the show so i'm done a little bit of an angel is talking about your device and talking about. The things that its what what the difference between fda approval and fda cleared isn't some some of the things that sure that your website forums people love but i kinda wanted to talk with you directly. [13:18] About to tell us toes for so little bit about yourself introduce yourself. Well done on my iphone. Oh man and has baba trading company i don't couple of businesses and but most my work has been in consumer products i found i discovered it. Technology is a really back into french and the owner of the with the device and his brother, did god be one of the just passed away and always and there were two brothers who both electrical engineers who invented devices and still very successfully charmingly he's been told to serve me. To run two thousand five. As the state wanted to help between you required them and it really going to buy a burger, find a partner mr washing but fortunately also he is deceased and, show because i tried but it but my partner burgers around and. Also a big his background in marketing guy has resigned as but we have medical advisory board. So we're where we're not sure governmental side so that's listed on website and i would bet he's on your website it lists who who some of the medical advisors are in a little bit about each of them. [14:52] Right yes these are all pretty prominent psychiatrist for people who are intentionally field and ordered notable in their experience and, and knowledge of the subject so because we have changed technologies we provide the you know we don't really requires or the hospital where all that we do have a lot of technical expertise. Not, make sure device where which is as a whole team of engineers were very you know very well covered terms what we do and how we maintain and improve the quality of what we what we provide, and i guess i didn't realize until you mentioned it just now that did this exact technology has been around since the eighties so this is not. This isn't some fly-by-night internet bubble dot com device this is this is on its been around for a minute. [15:49] Right i mean is that originally the device and transfer the electronic version nation which is something that works properly and the body most devices, are there for like stem no way in something that, you know what people get when they have certain after they have surgery you were having orders new orders of your body, the most devices are about fifty two hundred fifty million which is way too strong berger has to where they did was a real event and, a database tens device that works on me and one to four million six busybody it was really for the geriatric market geriatric patients don't like the, you know the strongest innovation of the standard was successful that they then started to experiment with frequency that could be used to try to stimulate neurotransmitters all. So basically used to hear basically we're looking for something that was. Powerful enough but basically just powerful enough to do what was needed to stimulate the brain without. Having to be in a clinical setting with it with the doctor standing by in. That's correct me if you can hear this because many people due to lack of convulsive therapy is approximately eight hundred two thousand no apps. He utilized parses one to four so this is such a min about electricity every question is what can possibly work as its own and they. [17:27] Delete batteries in the answer to that is cuz quick question is do we use the very high carrier frequency of about fifteen thousand words with allows us to get electricity into the brain. Use radio signal without a lot of apple juice so it's not a matter how strong it is really just a matter how you deliver. And that we we also have, what am i actually frequency which is about five hundred hers which helps but not logical aspect of this so you know it's only four million in two minutes because we're actually cutting the physiological effect, and then the body was between about zero and forty hurts if you for example. But fortunately are there other ways to save a device well using frequencies that part of your body do workers. Different aspects of your physiology be stimulated using a mild formula kirby were working be used when the person there's which is using a which is running frequencies. Between zero forty range that is the your biological biologically active frequency and we have to find the right one that would stimulate heater transmitters we knew the rain was in. Its around the knee hurts if there's a number we have you carefully guarded this for the. Is it different for each patients with some people are lesser. [19:01] Or does it actually we found a frequency that would stimulate, generally the year transmitters in most patients do we have about seventy five to eighty percent success rate doesn't work on everybody we meet we return basis with one but before prices of we only get about, fifteen percent of the back so it eighty five. The types of activities around were conservative get it working seventy eighty percent of patients and when i say words i mean that it will alleviate one three symptoms that were there to treat. Have you seen any patterns and the people that it does work for weather nat's you know some some things were better for men or for women or, four different age groups that the patient and see success in the fall and any patterns or categories. Not really no we have a very wide range occasions we have a lot of each christians who prescribe is for kids we actually use cage without, she will that is two years of age were not permitted to work and actually a pediatric patients with you. You know contrition to rca prescribed and they do will pharmaceutical drugs training is not a good idea that, world history and the we also used, very successfully with my shoulder patients people in their nineties because they actually can't adjust runs very well and. [20:37] And they usually take a lot of them this is so many. Any issues which would otherwise have to be sold with poly pharmacy so we have a wide range and there's and our genders but it is really. Kind of almost fifty formula varies by the month but we find the winner more receptive to. The kind message that we're sending but he was not to prevent them from. Ordering so he was pretty much the did he do we don't have a specific population i would say that the. The appeals in terms of the purchase of the device until mark the mark and the greatest ball crosses pretty much patience between thirty five and seventy. The sum of all the more mature you know who is making a decision ball about his was recognizing symptoms as they not approach middle age better for being, you much younger and then the asians really to their seventies and then people over seventy me. Can't get medicaid were for medicare and not be you know and. Turn the blue church every therapies not not that we don't have many patients were much older and we treated. Question hundred years of age but i was a partially is over between you know the reading the bible for us thirty five seventy between the two genders see. [22:14] It's pretty common for women to experience. [22:21] How eight ball that desire and need to look for things out of the norm when and sometimes we know biologically have. More issues metabolizing certain medications. Even as simple as we can bring our castle better than a tablet things like that there seems to be more things that women experience is far side effects. And where is where is men might be more held off by the stigma of admitting they're dealing with depression women are. Often seeking something other than taking a medication and that something you'd you'd said to me when we spoke on the phone previously was that. [23:06] You will feel. [23:10] And no cup confident that your offering the public and non fire option so. That know this probably will not necessarily replace all the patients medications this would you consider this something that people use in addition to. Or is it a, it has a hard treatment in some cases and where we haven't really been able to prove how but there are a lot of witnesses were quite a few vacations and again i, where you were not i know he's had heart disease and taking drugs are you. We feel that the across the board if you can use a non pharmaceutical intervention cars. And there are others on the market got this early in the second round but i am your father no what will message in the device shield which much smaller before leaving on something that is measurable and on same problem. Can you probably used first and it doesn't work then you can go to her suitable option there are many great drugs in the market. But when you have something that has done amazing is this that has to research it is probably a good idea to start with something like this for stator better opinion we don't. [24:41] Will you use this device without contraindications with any other pharmaceutical drug sofas and has something that you're doing, where's the problem and you can reduce vacation, that's fine he can you so stay on the medicaid for for her machine that may come and actually, and, the treatment of something else that's going on and i cannot be very specific but yeah pieces of vacation every condition, is different but that's one of the things that we talked about a lot of resources is that in hand sitting quality of life. [25:23] So so we do we tell me today's the new especially when you're with your buying a house full price is coming up this past thirty days you said that i don't, when he but they can return it we have a ten percent restocking fee wishes you know, lower the industry standard would you return electronic equipment generally you charge between fifteen and twenty five percent of the purchase price restocking fee or as much flour we had to cover the cost we should be back to the plan to get a refurbished, and you know rebuilt in the parts are changing everything else and, how many years of being used objects somewhere so we have to do that just fell safe but the, this device difference from. The you know you're talking about electronics and the rest people taking what they purchase and and user and on a, how is this different from there so many devices that you can just walk in your neighborhood drug store now the icy hot has wanna leave has one, there. Danger close to ten devices but they don't have a very big and they don't have to be in a. Alone or just build the same message is most ten devices and its my body not using any there any specific frequencies or anything between the study that any different than anybody else's. So there is really not something work benjamin down i have not heard good reviews about. [27:00] You have a lot of products that are in drugstores estate and the products mean they're on the same rate this is not something that you use on your face your head and neck there. They're not. [27:14] And anyway suggested to be safe for that and so that's the difference with your devices that use you do have the science backing exactly. Where is applied to the frequency to trigger the serotonin in the brain. Product no worries we found that the previous also ours is the is a true tragedy of it so you. Me to use the applicator switch the only way you can really get interesting right there other devices market to use matches on your clothes about they don't, they are not delivering electricity in the same fashion. This is really the only way you can collection break and you are going to it safely if you understand the frequencies introducing or or active players so, no one seems to have understood that right mission hi carrier frequency of eighty thousand, and what will i do to to deliver that, discover devices better better up that's about turned in in drugstores are okay but they're not you can use and transfer, and by using both you can use this for bailey and you can also use it topically so you know a lot of pain is centered where's trigger the brain. And the boys reaction is where you were reaction and of course all the build up is result of the stress of having injury. Is his biologically. Connected to your brain and how it operates of up so the first line of defense and actually we're treatment and using this transparently but you also use this properly. [28:54] And we talked about the body her to my goal was five hundred so where were you to lazy and forget about things like that. Right will find you see you can use probably but you can also i would also recommend using it turns green because that's where a lot of his trigger, forget about, we would use it topically for example of some of which is where most despite your current on the food or barter for toronto and we've got medicine, got a lot of in order to have your heart pumping to the strawberries and proven that to break up sugar crystals words as is working properly on your foot and then there are nine million people this country couches used to. And largely and solve one of your cast and it is you know people think it was drinking port red wine the greatest number of characters are actually beer drinkers. [29:50] Yeah i know for a red wine drinker so i can i guess and say from that appears here's a real problem and also people. Very rich food these days so so glad she's cause gout and then we can also use that you can also use it anyway we have people. For help in surgery right hip pain. She put one up here in one side with pain in the oven does hundred eighty degrees the other side we give you by strapping kids activities in your body and all because he is for r and neck pain and lastly. What have you as, to for very specialized form of chronic pain which is called phantom limb syndrome internet p you can use one of these alligators with makes i changed the device. She has her, office but the we can be used on c chalets in the other out the hair you use on the subway, where the or and it will reduce which and which were you feel like your problem is still there you so snorting pain. Practically so what's the use of medical life span of the device last, yo for five years or more if we don't get anything back maybe about one percent failure rate so we, get two to five years down the road we don't cost so we replaced the cost so they're not and we will cover costs but not. [31:26] I want to buy for brush up so we can get to the number of back every year but not many and that's as long as a result of used. [31:37] Yeah doesn't look it come in looking like they been using our over and over come back later over here over my hr something. I know i have said this. I know in your website it says that one of the things that would make you a patient not eligible to use it would be if you had a pacemaker or other electronic device in the body already. We recommend using over the in over pacemaker we have a lot of patients who used to transfer a newly who pacemakers but we we put that is a contradiction because of a lot of. What we recommended by the medical advisory board about it so you don't you voyage can, raise is there any other known health conditions other than another electronic device in the body is there is there anything else that, the you guys come across as a as contraindications. The only thing is if you have if you have for some reason trap on your head on if you were into had a bullet. I wish in trouble from from you were situation and that is and if the if you use the death of his over them so you can having so that pretty much do i owe. Where's this is we. As just as we can i go to raffia first vibration appreciate you calling in and kinda talking about the science of it and in the history of the device the again i myself wasn't aware that we're looking at. [33:19] Thirty plus years of. Science and technology backing that rice with what do you think it is there's one take away that is if someone was on the fence about trying this device i mean i've been pretty open with you that my fear was that it would somehow cause me pain. And and that make me nervous about trying a device like this but if somebody were on the fence. What do you think it advice would you offer them in their decision making process. Sure but when i went to examine oh not engages in inches device to worsened with matters of electricity here, do to cause harm in any situation and how he was applied, so that's that's the first thing the fda has loaded this year for forty years and determined say it were not saved. Then we would be out of work and we would certainly wouldn't have their printer were also fully approved using over the counter device which i didn't mention in brazil canada mexico and europe those are all very very strange in, regulatory bodies and they don't. What you do anything unless you have permanent that you have a device that say they be affected so we do have that in printer outside of the united states which is even, more rigorous than or ca so i would ask people to look at the evidence that we have as well as as well as the research of between published bipolar depression which is, car in two thousand thirteen was the first time the device has never been shown to treat the to the. [34:55] It appears that which is really quite a landmark study do we have done some extraordinary work and we also have, your detailed talk this website which i did which really on the street after so i would ask people to be opened to to understanding the biological elements of what's going on here and wanted to, look at you know the fact we had a great safety record this is the mobile is receiving shares this is just when it was delivered which makes factor. Excellent when i appreciate you calling in and giving us your time and i definitely know the following up with you i think i think that i am and getting braver and i think that i'm getting willing to. Maybe dip my toes in the. And it might be funny to say dip my toes in the water with anything electric bikes but definitely looking forward to learning more about it and getting some more feedback on and i appreciate you calling interesting. Perfect thank you for having the shown happy to answer any of a question mark in the future you have a good night to you as well. [36:08] Music. [36:19] Well that was an excellent wealth of information. We appreciate the phone call from it shipped to the fisher wallace lavatories again and their website is fisher wallace dot com and you can visit their site to learn more about their. Device a couple things just. [36:44] From there was a couple little bit more information than myself cost six hundred ninety nine dollars says flying investment as shit mentioned you may return it for a refund within thirty days and it. You know is definitely something that i think if you use it just once or just twice you should not base your experience on, just wanted to uses it something that you should try over multiple experiences unless of course that causes you. Such discovered that you would want to put it back on even though this is something that you can just purchase over the counter. If you're working with pain management team are working with the with the position. I think you should talk to your doctor about it and ask them their thoughts on it are they wear bits with the recommended ss do they have any. Thoughts as to whether or not it would have positive impact for you is certainly one of those things where again. I'm always looking for things that i can and it's my life that will. Help my existing drug therapies help with my life management plan. I would definitely have to consider could i find twenty minutes twice a day to put a machine on and. You know it's relieve my pain and increase mobility and help me sleep and help my depression and anxiety i would find twenty minutes twice a day and absolutely. [38:18] Is this something that i would invest seventy dollars and that her to measure. It is covered by some insurance is yes but a lot of interferences don't and some flicks plans won't because technically it's in order to counter item. So we definitely have to we the benefits of the device versus the cost and is nice that they are for the refunds that they do have a minimum restocking fee as well so he wouldn't get all of your money back. So we definitely something that if you are gonna spend the money on you need to be committed to putting the effort into it i myself was going to spend that much money i would like to know that it has a longer lifespan perhaps for the device itself. But again if you care for something and take care of it in and use it properly that i'm sure increases lifespan exponentially. [39:19] So definitely i am very excited to be doing a little more research and learning a little more about using cranial stimulation for pain and depression anxiety and insomnia all things we do with. I have a training myself. But it is something and we research more on and i would love to hear from some of you if you try one of these devices if you had. Positive or negative effects from it if you had any unexpected benefits from it you know didn't help with with other parts of your pain management and life management. [40:01] As always we talked about coaching and and putting together a plan of of. When taking observing deciding and taking action this is definitely something that would be taking action. So if you have tried me the fisher wallace stimulator or any other type of training estimate are we'd love to hear from you. Email us you can email me at jennie mac it pains me to five dot com or are generally email info at pain sixty five dot com. And. Tell it tells your story tell it how how did it help and what. [40:49] And if you'd like we could also talk more about your experience in your diagnosis. [40:59] I'd love to have some people share with us what brought them to discovering this and in and putting their energy into trying it. [41:09] As always our comcast line is open you can call and leave a voicemail we'd love to hear from you and have a message and. Many of share your story that way our number is six zero five nine three seven eight five three six that is our pain six five. Phone number. [41:34] Six zero five nine three seven eight five three six is the podcast line so feel free to call me this voice mail tell us tell us your story. And if i do get brave enough to try either the fish are always device or or some other simulator on my brain i will get back to you with the results and share my story as well. [41:56] As always thank you for listening to the tactical pain podcast again things to jim fisher fisher oz laboratories for helping us out with today's episode. And remember awareness is free and has risen nice places to go. [/su_spoiler]

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Sten Hugo Hiller - 3320 King Chrono

Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat

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Highlighting the January 3320 King Chrono

Interview with  Baruch Judson Calkin ID  792740

It was a new climb on K4, Unlimited Chrono this time. All you need to win a Chrono is a formation that is hard to beat by the other top contenders, and lots of time to reclimb after some upstart takes you down some notches.  As the newly minted CO of Star League my time was spent trying to keep the paperwork under control, and while I might have had some levels on many of the contenders, almost all had 300-700 tons on me. My usual formula, join early, and sneak off for some minutes now and then to get up from the plains and to the upper foothills barely worked this time. But I scraped together enough to place 15th. Those who harvested enough points to be declared winners this time were:

Div 1 (18 Players): Charles Tomlin, FUSION (+14330) Div 2 (20 Players): Mark K Penner, Zeon (+22950) Div 3 (30 Players): German Jaramillo, Brotherhood Dragons Gamma (+8490) Div 4 (46 Players): KiloTone Recoil, Brotherhood Dragons Beta (+25390) Div 5 (50 Players): Chris Zimmer, Brotherhood Dragons Gamma (+36950) Div 6 (48 Players): Baruch Judson Calkin, PHOENIX (+21470) Div 7 (61 Players): ScarFirewolf, Brotherhood Dragons Iota (+33360) Div 8 (70 Players): Joshua Bourne, Brotherhood Dragons Mu (+39370) Div 9 (41 Players): KiloTone Recoil, T.B. 2nd Kearney Highlanders (+27710) Div 10 (37 Players): Casandra Proctor, Wrecking Crew Too (+40) Div 11 (22 Players): Chapette, BlackThorn (+2850) Div 12 (8 Players): Olfat, Borg Squad Wars (+2520)

Total participants: 451, Total Medals: 173 (of 180 possible)

Somewhat uneven divisions, almost nine times as many in div 8 as in div 12. We are back to low participation in div 12, what can we do with it?

Dragons Gamma got as only clan two Golds. Dragons got a total of five. Mark K Penner got his second Gold in a row.

Quite a close finish in div 10, Gold decided by just 40 points, in seven of the other divisions the margin was over 20 000.

As quite a few of the divisions was decided hours before it was over, I contacted some winners to be. Baruch Judson Calkin(#792740) agreed to come over after he had gotten his prizes.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Your first appearance in the circuits was back in 3286. First CW was in CW 18 for Exile Camp. In 94 you switched alliance to Phoenix. Except for some freelancing in Omnicron (01), Gammaburst (04) and Dragons (08) you have stayed with Phoenix. What some of Our Readers might want to know is why Phoenix changed from (MMI) to (BHG)?

Baruch Judson Calkin ID  792740 Well, Sten, it all started when I was in Exiles (spits).

Sten Hugo Hiller  I gather lots of not so fond memories?

Baruch Judson Calkin  What happened there's been hushed up by court orders, NDAs, and a whole bunch of money trading hands, the kind of horse-crap your readers probably don't care about. The point is, after Jackson Kirkpatrick and I escaped from Novum with my family, which is when MMI picked me up, I started recruiting old clan-mates.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Always a good idea to have people you are comfortable with around you.

Baruch Judson Calkin  Theo Peeples, James Waddington, John Thorson, Steve Fitch, others you may or may not have heard of.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Some of the names ring a bell, they use to crush me in the KOTMs

Baruch Judson Calkin  Well MMI's heavily into Niode Prospecting. You probably know how that goes: you pay the Craftsmen a HUGE fee AND supply the labor, and they point you to underground niode caches that their satellite scan have picked up. Then they take a cut of whatever you find. It's worked out really well for me lately, one of the mines that I've got a 90% stake in turned out to be much larger than expected. I hear they found a second one this year, first time that's ever happened.

Baruch Judson Calkin  Anyway, a few years ago, one of our guys keyed in the wrong jump code and ended up in an uncharted system.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Lots of Niodes there, or something bad?

Baruch Judson Calkin  He heard some of the Craftsmen saying how it might have been in the same sector as Old Earth, maybe even in the Solar System, but they weren't entirely sure. On the system's 1st planet, a tiny dead ball of rock WAY too close to a yellow dwarf for comfort, they found a whole labyrinth of niode caches.

Sten Hugo Hiller  NICE!

Baruch Judson Calkin  Nobody believed the guy at first, so they started calling it 'Mercury' just to screw with him. But then we got a call from the Craftsmen.

Sten Hugo Hiller  It starts to sound... not good

Baruch Judson Calkin  The gateway was far out near the Oort Cloud, so anyone doing mining operations was going to need a sizeable fleet of near-light star ships to make the logistics work right. MMI's pretty well entrenched on their core worlds and don't use their ships much anymore, so we went recruiting.

Sten Hugo Hiller  ok..

Baruch Judson Calkin  Found a bunch of scrappy new pilots who wouldn't mind trading hard work and crappy working conditions for high pay, and we set up 2 new clans in the alliance: Red Dawn and Red Dwarf. They set up their base on 'Mercury'

Sten Hugo Hiller  I am with you so far

Baruch Judson Calkin  Well, a few years later I started getting into it with the MMI Alliance Leader, who I'll refer to as Dicky Peace.

Sten Hugo Hiller  I am sure none of my readers, all with clean thoughts, will think anything of it.

Baruch Judson Calkin  Dicky accused me of making decisions without consulting him, like allying with RND's Omicron Guard (which ended up being a gold-medal team), firing some of his boys from key positions and promoting my own people, stuff like that. That’s when a lot of my old friends from Exiles, that I mentioned earlier, were coming in.

Sten Hugo Hiller  No truth in those allegations I suppose?

Baruch Judson Calkin  I don't think Dicky liked James very much at all. James is one of the galaxy's best squad leaders and strategists, but he's...difficult to get along with.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Well, some personalities don’t mesh with each other

Baruch Judson Calkin  I accused Dicky of constantly meddling, chewing out my guys in front of everybody Voiding contracts of my pilots without telling me, etc.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Not the best command strategy unless you want a unit of lickspittles.

Baruch Judson Calkin  So one day he just announces over the hypernet that Phoenix, Cosmic Elite, Red Dwarf and Red Dawn were off the Mercury project, and were no longer associated with MMI. We were the last to know. His own lieutenants in Isle were the second-last. Think about that for a minute. Well the Mercury project Gate and all the mining infrastructure were in MMI's name, so we were instantly cut out from all the profits. But what he failed to take into account were that he had put all the ships in our hands for tax purposes... What followed was what we called The Siege.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Some explanation?

Baruch Judson Calkin  We blockaded the MMI core worlds for 2 years, they couldn't get into orbit and could only get off their planets by Gates.

Sten Hugo Hiller  So you got a settlement at the end?

Baruch Judson Calkin  They were losing a metric crap-ton of money, but at the same time we were getting killed in public opinion because they had been around for a lot longer and had many more friends within the holo-networks. It was a bad situation for everybody involved.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Lose-lose situation, how did you resolve it?

Baruch Judson Calkin  Eventually we worked out a deal in court that everybody could agree on.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Everyone kissy face and happy happy? No, I didn’t think so.

Baruch Judson Calkin  We kept the ships, the infrastructure, the contracts to all the pilots who'd joined, and toll rights to the Mercury Gate. We gave up our rights to the MMI name and all stakes in any property on the core worlds, and we have to let MMI use the Mercury Gate free of charge. They get free charter passage on our ships as well, outside of Clan Wars. Still can't believe our legal team let them have that...

Sten Hugo Hiller  Did you check if they took bribes?

Baruch Judson Calkin  But to make a long, drawn-out debate short, it eventually made sense to everybody to name ourselves after our primary business venture (Mercury) in case some other yo-yo tried to tie us up in court with a copyright claim, and to advertise our other biggest asset (the Battle group, as we'd started referring to it during the Siege) in the name as well. So we became Battle Group Mercury. I think somebody at Kinky Graphics thought they were being funny putting 'BHG' on our business cards. But it was a clever pun that got us free airtime on all the morning talk holo-vids, so we decided not to change it.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Have to admit I don’t get that pun.

Baruch Judson Calkin  Ok, Hg is the Periodic Table symbol for Mercury...

Ok, quite a story, but my readers expect something from the Kotm as well. You took your first gold in the Classic 65 in May `87. This was your 19th?

Baruch Judson Calkin  How many golds. Idunno, I lost count. But 19 sounds about right, though.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Can happen, What gold mean the most to you, the first, the last, the next or some other?

Baruch Judson Calkin  Definitely the first. I won 2 in a row, and I was low level enough at the time that I could use the Nephilaxes in my main formation. Everything since then's just been 'I want that gun, gimme!'

Sten Hugo Hiller  This was a chrono, you have won quite a lot of them, is that a favorite of yours?

Baruch Judson Calkin  Absolutely. Nobody can just ninja you out of gold if you get distracted for a minute. And as the leader of Phoenix, and BHG in general, I have a ton of distractions.

Sten Hugo Hiller  I am feeling that myself even if I am just a temporary squad leader. Generally, KOTMs is divided into limited and unlimited, which of those is your preference?

Baruch Judson Calkin  Limited, easier to leverage you best mechs and it cuts into the advantages of some of the REALLY rich clans.

Sten Hugo Hiller  As a member of a poor clan I have to agree. One of the limited formats is weapon types, you have some golds there as well, are they a preference?

Baruch Judson Calkin  Nah, I don't even pay attention to the weapon types, I basically treat those as Unlimited.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Many do that, I do it myself because a lack of weapons. You have also done quite well in the rainbows, are they more to your liking?

Baruch Judson Calkin  Until very recently I've kept my main to Double Rainbow standards just for that reason. Plus a lot of high-cash / low-skill pilots will spam you with like a dozen of the same type of super-powered mech...Torrent, Regis, Boreas, etc. Rainbow prevents a lot of that.

Sten Hugo Hiller  That they do, the last general type is weight limit. Do you prefer max tonnage or mechtype there?

Baruch Judson Calkin  Max tonnage, those are easy to set up, sometimes I even do it in the middle of a battle, and it’s so simple, haha. Low ton, mech type, those don't come up much so I have a hard time keeping them up to date. Usually I skip those unless I have a good reason to enter.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Like wanting a weapon perhaps... Some have complained about lack of resources for leveling, do you feel that pinch?

Baruch Judson Calkin  I don't know anyone who doesn’t. Seems like you're either underwater, or in a constant arms race all the time.

Sten Hugo Hiller  Also, there have recently been another reduction in the number of medals in the KOTMs.9 silver and 15 bronze when I got into the Kotms Any comment to this?

Baruch Judson Calkin  I didn't notice, but now that you mention it... There used to be what, 6 silver and 18-19 bronze? That’s right. I was one of the pilots who suggested that the Craftsmen make changes for a more competitive KOTM. You used to be able to do what I call 'bronzing,' where you could just grab a spot in KOTM and hang out until it was over. If you were any kind of a decent pilot, you might keep your spot without making another attack. It was helluva lame but you had to do it to keep up. Everyone avoided silver and gold like the plague because the prizes weren't worth the way they inflated your pilot level that the Craftsmen use to assign tournament divisions. Eventually you'd 'level' your way out of any prizes at all! Now every contest is cutthroat, especially in the last hour when the music stops. I'd say overall I'm a fan, especially with the huge upgrade in prizes.

Sten Hugo Hiller  If you could pick or create your favorite KOTM, what would it be?

Baruch Judson Calkin  Hmmm... Maybe 'Used Mech Sale,' where you can only use the cheap models they call 'crystal' mechs. Or 'Fire Alarm' where every slot gets filled by a random mech from your base that has random equipment and weapons from your hangar.

Sten Hugo Hiller  From your lips to the Developers ears. As you have been around for quite a while, and lead a successful unit and have a medal collection few can match. What mechs/equipment/weapons would you recommend struggling warriors to use?

Baruch Judson Calkin  3 things: 1. Make the best of what you have. Save niodes to trick out your best mechs, whatever they may be. Buy gear for one mech at a time until it’s maxed out, then put it in a line with your other best mechs. Don't buy weapons until you have all the gear your mechs can take, equipment gets you a lot more value per niode. 2. Specialize. Pick a low tonnage that you have good mechs for, and buy niode mechs and gear for them. It is much cheaper than trying to have a super-powered main, and very few will be able to hit you effectively in wars. 3. Ogguns are extremely underrated. Buy as many as you can afford until you are level 44 or so. 4. Then get Dilophos. Its best build uses more pieces of crystal gear than niode. 5. Finally, if you aren't going to specialize then don't spend ANY niodes until you have or can afford 75ton mechs or higher. Those don't become obsolete until you get 100 tonners, which only really become effective around level 120 or so,

Sten Hugo Hiller  Well, five good advices for the price of three is quite a bargain. It seem your teammates is getting impatient. Do you have any final words?

Baruch Judson Calkin  Only that BHG is always hiring pilots who are willing to learn and adapt. "You'd better shoot straight, or else keep your comm channel open and aim where we tell you," that's what we always say in recruit training. Actually I just made that up. But I'm sending out a memo later...

Sten Hugo Hiller  Thank you for your time and insights, have a good celebration!

Baruch Judson Calkin  See you at LaSalles later.

And he sauntered off with a shiny new Gold, I had my bronze to place in my collection and an office full of paperwork to take care of.

Upcoming event: 10 Red Tons That is: Red Ants only, everything else leaves a hole in your formation. Weapons and equipment of your choice.

Event ends February14 between 1600 and 1700 New York Time

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