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Audiobooks, a love story

I just got through reading an interview of Neil Gaiman aka @neilhimself on twitter over on NPR. Neil talks about his love of audio books and he got me to realize something.
I love audio books.
I never really came to terms with this until I read that piece on NPR. My love affair started when I [...]

My next book project

I’m working on a book project for the month of December. I figure it’s my birthday month so I should do something significant and I figured writing a book would be significant. Here’s my working title:
The excuse book.
Here’s an outline of some of the excuses in the book:

I ran out of time
I don’t have [...]

Three kinds of people in the world

That’s right folks, the three kinds of people are:

Talkers
Thinkers
Walkers

Here’s what I mean by these 3 types:
Talkers
Always talk about doing things. They talk about their great business plan or talk about going to workout, or talk about having great things planned but they never do any of them. All they do is talk incessantly about [...]

Just finished reading Crush It!

I literally just finished reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s book “Crush It!”
I read it in one day.
Yes, it was an easy book to read, but I also just could not put it down. Every page had something interesting on it and I couldn’t wait to read the next page. Gary has a lot to say about passion, [...]

Podcast: El Cartel de los Sapos

This is a podcast that I recorded because I wanted to come clean about my addiction to Spanish language soap operas. Seriously, I can’t watch Spanish soaps (novelas) because I get hooked on them, almost on the spot. I blame my mother because when I came home from school she’d be watching her novelas and [...]