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Reviewing the Melomania 1 Wireless Earbuds
After Apple killed the 3.5 mm headphone jack in 2016, it started aggressively promoting the wireless AirPods. Even though I’m a huge Apple fan, I never liked these hard plastic pods, not even the original wired version. It has to
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Work, work, work
In the USA (where I’ve been living since 1999), people are obsessed with one thing: WORK. It’s the only nation in the world where vacation is not a right but a privilege. If and when Americans dare to take a
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You Are Privileged
Sometimes I feel we can measure the degree of our privilege by how many things we take for granted. Is the air we breathe clean? Can we put food on the table? Are we healthy? Do we feel safe? Do
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Elaine Clark Cracked the Podcasting Code
I usually don’t get hate mail, but there was one story I wrote back in 2015 that rubbed a lot of readers the wrong way. It wasn’t one of my stories about voices dot com. It wasn’t even an article
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Stop Being a People Pleaser!
For most of us, pleasing people is the name of the game. As a freelance service provider, that is why we exist: to please the people that pay us. It’s how I grew up as a little boy in the
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Let’s Shoot the Messenger!
The war of words we call the U.S. general election, is finally over. America has voted. The people have spoken. We just need to wait for the final results. Some of us are elated. Some of us are scared. Some
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