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The User Pool is a novel based on my experience in Information Technology in the 90's at one of the largest entertainment companies in Los Angeles.

The novel is a satire. It's not yet published because it's not yet completed. Although I'm very close. This site is a preview of things to come...

The blog offers the best worst advice for personal growth and improvement.

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The day Mulhausen shot the CIO in Weekly Staff was bad for worse reasons than that; it was also the day Blair found out I had sex with my wife.

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The User Pool - 7. The Peter Principle

While staring down the barrel of Mulhausen’s smoking gun, I both earnestly and gravely wondered if I could, with any sensible odds, count...

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Quiet Employment

I've written about quiet quitting, quiet firing, and loud quitting. It's time we discuss quiet employment. If companies can box us out...

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Jason X

3 days ago
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Quiet Employment

I've written about quiet quitting, quiet firing, and loud quitting. It's time we discuss quiet employment. If companies can box us out...

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Jason X

Feb 1
3 min

how to Lose Your Job in 10 Days

By now, most of us have heard of people "quiet quitting" when they're fed up with their job. So instead of actually quitting, you stick...

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Self-Improvement for the casual Improver

Jason X

Jan 30
3 min

Self-Improvement for the casual Improver

What is self-improvement? Usually, it's a response to feedback from those who wish to shame us into submission. Note the "self" in...

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Jason X

Jan 25
4 min

the benefits of procrastination

Benjamin Franklin once said: Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Are these words of wisdom? Or just an insult to the...

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Jason X

Jan 21
3 min

5 Ways to Become a Less Positive Person

You're at a party and you meet up with someone you haven't seen in a while, and you are surprised to find them more confident, more...

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Jason X

Jan 21
4 min

Stop Writing Down Your Goals

In the words of Pablo Picasso: Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon...

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Corporate Rule: Don't Lie and Rarely Tell the Truth

Jason X

Jun 18, 2018
2 min

Corporate Rule: Don't Lie and Rarely Tell the Truth

Some old book somewhere said, "... You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." In office politics, the truth shall get...

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