The Power of Outsourcing

POSTED BY Joel on Aug 23 under Theories

Outsourcing can be enormously powerful for either an organization or an individual. I personally use Elance.com to outsource my copywriting, certain types of programming, and even business needs. Elance is basically Ebay for services… You post a project that needs to be done and various providers bid to offer you their services. [...]

Howlings of a Jackal

POSTED BY Joel on Nov 30 under Theories

Had drinks with an old friend, Rachelle, yesterday. We met at Barca on Capitol Hill for a martini and a talk about her writing and “epic dreams”. Later we moved to Quinn’s and feasted on frog’s legs and salad. My Bloody Mary was not a good idea in combination with the spiciness [...]

Financial Firms “Staring Into The Jaws of Hell”

POSTED BY Joel on Mar 12 under Theories

The title of this post is a diirect quote from Martin Fridson, the leading expert on junk bonds, speaking of financial firms and buyout companies.
I hate being right.
The private equity kings and warlords who for the past decade have been making monster paychecks are suddenly seeing their investments sink. The Titanic was a rubber [...]

Scientists Working on Confirming that Joel Is Always Right

POSTED BY Joel on Oct 23 under Theories

For a long time now, I have thought that I solved many of my problems during sleep and during college I firmly held the theory that extra sleep the night before a test was more valuable to me getting a good score than was extra study time. Now proof is coming out that my [...]

Business Revolution

POSTED BY Joel on Oct 16 under Theories

I think that we are about to see another dramatic shift in the way business works. Wal-Mart changed the way most of America purchased it’s products a couple of decades ago from having to go to lots of smaller stores to purchase pricey goods, to going to one giant supplier to get most goods [...]

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POSTED BY Joel on Sep 28 under Theories

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My Theory on Why Religious Folk Marry Young

POSTED BY Joel on Sep 19 under Theories

People with strong religious convictions tend to get married much younger than those without religious affiliations. Most of my friends without religion are unmarried and probably won’t get married for several years at least. My friends who are strongly religious, such as Jordan and Mark Rody have already been married for over a [...]

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