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Long a$$ rambling tax ‘tip’
Hi Friends, The 2025 tax code allows filers to write off up to 25K in tips as long as their adjusted gross income isn’t above $150,000 ($300,000 if…
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Category: Money
Culture
Over-Unders for the Sandwich Generation
IE the gamble of choosing material renunciation as a middle-class, middle-generation American. Sitting here squarely in a middle class “sandwich generation,” I’ve noticed a few things. Trying to…
Mommess
Stewarding the Internet
Women are used to this in terms of motherhood, being unseen and unpaid: just “expected.” Moms do love and care and survival of the species. It’s a default…
Coaching
intersection of marketing and operations: digital concierge
Key evaluations you need to make before you add any more digital marketing into your life. How many times has someone told you you need a better landing…
Coaching
Artful Advertising
If you lay down your META or Google targeted ad sets like blankets of loveliness across the web– regardless of your product, service or event – your content…
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Surveillance is a feeling
And since it has no love in it, it doesn’t feel good: a note to employers (and data brokers) in a digital age. “Peering In” photo of Artist…
Creativity
Early Earnings, Archetypes, and Your Personal Way to Wealth
(with an obsessive case study in American Politics) The archetypes1 represented in your earliest “receptive” associations are a powerful way to understand and value yourself as you are…
Coaching
always be moonlighting
I’ve had many jobs in my life. Usually two at once. Sometimes even three. It’s been helpful to always be moonlighting at all my jobs, because it offered…
Creativity
passive income / passive outcomes
If you are like me and have many interests, maybe sometimes you go “all in” one on project, then drift off a bit toward the next thing, rinse…
Culture
Mercy mercy me
Why do you continue To say that the money is what matters? To tout it as the stuff of life. Why do you perpetuate this fakery, born of…
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This isn’t allowed anymore
If I hear one more person refer to “the media” as a monolith, I’m going to… to…. Really, we know better than this, don’t we? There is no…
Culture
one brain drain
The mainstream media (MSM) messaging isn’t controlled by a central brain, a single-minded group of elites or even a particular political leaning. It is controlled by capitalism. Each…