You’re so money baby, and you don’t even know it

Posted December 5th, 2009 by Paul Pettengill with No Comments
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My good buddy Matt Cheney reached out to me to do an interview with Ramit Sethi who runs the site iwillteachyoutoberich.com, who he has been working with on a financial bootcamp project.  I’d first heard about Ramit through Matt, who convinced me to buy Ramit’s book, “I Will Teach You To Be Rich”. I did so, ordering it through Amazon, and letting it sit on my shelf for a couple of months, as I was just recovering from all the books I  read for the Alt-MBA program that we were just wrapping up.  I figured I get to the book eventually.

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Duarte Rocks!

Posted October 31st, 2009 by Paul Pettengill with No Comments
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Happy Halloween everybody!  Above is an entry to this year’s annual Duarte Pumpkin contest. It’s posted here, because of this month’s book… Slide:ology and it’s author Nancy Duarte.   I posted earlier about Presentation Zen and Garr Reynolds, and Nancy and Garr are good friends, in fact the whitespace on the cover of Slide:ology is Garr’s silhouette.   Well, Slide:ology is a great compliment to Presentation Zen, it takes things from a very practical perspective around images, colors, transitions, everything.  Duarte (the firm) was responsible for all the visuals in An Inconvenient Truth.

Nancy was nice enough to do an interview with me about her book and her career.  Please see an excerpt below.

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