Sentences with phrase «years of my time writing»

What if I spend hours, months, years of my time writing something that no one will read beside my mom and Auntie Mildred?

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Dozens of times over the last 25 years,» Laszewski writes.
«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»
I sat down and wrote all of my stories from a 30 year time span.
You can find the same types of long - running disagreements across the therapeutic board in clinical trials, as I wrote about years ago in an essay for the New York Times, entitled «Do Clinical Trials Work?»
It took two to three years to start seeing real results (i.e., inbound inquiries) as a result of my writing, but the branding payoff over time has been substantial.
«Taking the two years to the end of 2016, almost a third of the rise in the number of people in work reflected growth in self - employment (double the share of that category in total employment), with another fifth corresponding to more people in part - time work,» he wrote in a recent note to clients.
I've tried over the years to write many times about the realism of the downsides of being an entrepreneur because there is a complete cognitive dissidence between what you read about yourself in the press and what you feel internally about where you're at in the journey.
«I explained how for the past couple of years I've kept Wednesdays clear on my calendar, usually worked from home, and used it as design / writing / solo - thinking time because the other four days get consumed with collaboration,» Schweikardt explained to the board, but lately «the collaboration days had gotten so busy, that Wednesdays had turned to email and administrivia catch - up days.»
HuffPo has poached a number of Times staffers this year, and this past spring, former executive editor Bill Keller wrote a column trashing HuffPo's editorial strategy and business model.
«A few years ago,» wrote Cook at the time, «users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer.
«Manafort, like dozens of other influence peddlers, has been operating in plain sight for yearswrote Silverstein, the long - time foreign - lobbying reporter.
The Times wrote:» [V] enture capitalists believe that [co-founder Stewart Butterfield] is building an enterprise company that will lead the next 100 years of online collaboration.»
«The company's performance over the three - and five - year time periods has languished behind peers, and the board's response for this underwhelming performance was to give Ms. Rometty 1.5 million options on top of her regular pay,» wrote Mastagni.
Time to write a fresh list of New Year's resolutions — ones you'll actually keep this time, the whole year throTime to write a fresh list of New Year's resolutions — ones you'll actually keep this time, the whole year throYear's resolutions — ones you'll actually keep this time, the whole year throtime, the whole year throyear through.
New York «s culture website Vulture wrote recently about the difficulty in forecasting this year's Best Picture Oscar race for reasons that include an especially diverse crowd of contenders, as well as last - minute controversies and an all - around «politically charged moment» in time.
The reviews go back a few years, but there were more than from the last week at the time of writing, which indicates the product is rather popular.
We face an economy of «exclusion and inequality» in which «the hearts of many people are gripped by fear and desperation, even in the so - called rich countries,» wrote Pope Francis, Time Magazine's Person of the Year, in late November.
And over the course of 7 years, my writing side hustle turned into a new career that earned 10 times more than my day job.
Nearly half of these hedgies posted only single - digit returns for their investors in 2016, «a lackluster sum in a year when the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index was up 12 percent, accounting for reinvested dividends,» writes The New York Times.
Fortune wrote at the time of last year's deal that IBM was looking for full acces to The Weather Company's reams of weather data.
It makes me wonder how many thousands of replies I haven't gotten over the years, due to my penchant for ending emails with «best» (as if I'd wanted to write, «best regards,» but just couldn't find the time.)
At the time of writing this column, I've been on a two - year journey of journaling every day.
If the majority of the year's tax write - offs are documented now, it will require less effort to add the rest during tax time.
By time he got around to building computer software and starting Microsoft with Paul Allen at Harvard, Bill had already accrued nearly 10 years of experience writing software.
Kelly wrote an op - ed in The New York Times last year arguing for the labeling of genetically modified organisms, so that consumers can better understanding the benefits of genetically engineering a product or plant to give it certain qualities.
Warren Buffett, No. 3 on Forbes» list of the world's richest people and most prominent among the low - tax dissenters, wrote an op - ed in The New York Times arguing that, in concert with budget cuts, Washington should raise taxes — especially on dividends and capital gains — for those earning upwards of US$ 1 million a year and even more on the 8,000 or so Americans making $ 10 million and up.
They've made a myriad of predictions, one of which is that in about thirty years, 2049 to be precise, a robot will have written a New York Times bestseller.
As I've written before, investors have had plenty of time to adjust to the prospect of tapering since the T - word started circulating earlier this year.
So, you're 42 year - old and you've written seven of the greatest - selling books of all time.
Kjellberg has the most subscribers of any creator on YouTube, he wrote a book that went to number 1 on The New York Times bestseller list and last year, he launched his own network, Revelmode, under the auspices of Maker Studios, the digital production company owned by Disney.
As Nicholas Colas of ConvergEx wrote in a Friday note, «Against measures of long - term earnings power, the S&P 500 is clearly expensive at 25 (times) trailing 10 - year earnings.
He's on the board of a billion revenue company, has written for The Financial Times, The New York Observer, and over a dozen popular websites for the past 15 years.
My second biggest issue with it has more to do with the time in which it was written — it's now about 40 years old — and the fact that it seemed to be reflective of attitudes and assumptions that I no longer carry in today's world.
«I signed on with the company almost four years ago and it has truly been the experience of a lifetime helping Uber become the fastest growing company of all - time — spanning 75 countries with over 14,000 employees,» Michael wrote in his goodbye letter, first posted on The New York Times.
The New York Times» Andrew Kramer reported on the phenomenon in December, writing that «for more than three years, rather than rely on military officers working out of isolated bunkers, Russian government recruiters have scouted a wide range of programmers, placing prominent ads on social media sites, offering jobs to college students and professional coders, and even speaking openly about looking in Russia's criminal underworld for potential talent.»
And so when I read Ben Graham, sort of a light bulb went off just this little article and I started reading everything I could about what he had written, both security analysis and the intelligent investor, and eventually led my way to Warren Buffett and you know, sort of the rest is history, it's a very good age, you know I was younger than 21 at the time you know junior year of college to recognize that this was what I was going to be doing the rest my life.
«After years of military modernization, China shows the ability to wage war against Taiwan for the first time since the 1950s,» the GOP senators wrote in a letter.
When the yield on the S&P 500 was higher than that for the 10 - year, however, stocks rose an average 19 percent and gained in price about 80 percent of the time,» he wrote.
Mr. Snyder received a B.A. in Government from Georgetown University during which time he spent two years working in the speech writing office of the White House.
When we remove the impact of one - time write - downs and restructuring charges, we see that VIAB actually grew net operating profit after tax (NOPAT) by 7 % in 2015 and increased its ROIC for the fifth straight year.
Sen. Tom Carper, D - Del., said that while he had helped write some provisions of the Dodd - Frank legislation, he knew at the time it would have to be tweaked in the years ahead.
As Ambrose Evans - Pritchard wrote over a year ago in the Financial Times, «the Bank of Japan held interest rates at zero for six years until July 2006 to stave off deflation.
At the time of writing, UBS was the only one of the big European names to have reported its full - year results, but a few others had already flagged up tax impacts to the market.
While this report is still early in the stages at the time of writing this, estimates say that the harvest of this crop coming from Mexico is only about half of what was expected for the year.
«Going back the last 30 years, during the time periods where stocks and bonds both fell, commodities were positive five out of eight times, while gold was positive half of the time,» he wrote.
When I wrote an article detailing the best reason to own physical gold and silver in coming years, and in that article, detailed recent strong devaluations of global fiat currencies, including the crash of the Russian ruble in recent times, someone sent us an email, in response to that article, that effectively stated, «I'm Russian, and the ruble never crashed, you idiot.»
This year, individuals and organizations interested in reserving a presentation time, making a written, audio or video submission, or completing the online survey, will have the option of using the Parliamentary Committee's new consultation portal.
The Dollar Spot Index was flat at 91.54 at the time of writing, 10 - year Treasury yields sitting at 2.96 % ahead of today's open and the release of today's figures that could see yields bounce back to 3 % this afternoon.
The methods revealed in «Gold & Gold Stock Trading Simplified» are the product of several year's worth of writing, research and real time market trading / testing.
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