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The Pierznik Monthly

The Pierznik Monthly Volume 28

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The September 2016 edition of my monthly reading review newsletter.

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Media

Dead Air: Remembering Free FM and Analyzing the New “Howard Stern Show”

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Remember Free FM?

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Reviews

Laughably Unrealistic (Even for the 2016 Election): “The Candidate” Reviewed

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Many people know the Mark Twain quote, “Truth is stranger than fiction,” but most ignore the second, and more important, part: “…but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”

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History

The Founding Fathers Needed a Lesson in Personal Finance

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I’m out for presidents to represent me.”

– Nas

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Books

Four Books That Changed the Way I Live

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A great book can change your life.

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America Lessons Life

Symbolism is Valued Over Action Because It’s Just Easier

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The world if full of tangled, complex issues that need time and cooperation to sort out.

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Lessons Life

My Turn to (Almost) Get Screwed by the System

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Has a huge corporation ever tried to screw you over?

Odds are, the answer to that question is yes.

I recently had it happen to me. Here’s my story.

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I Was There

I Was There: Carmelo, LeBron, CP3 & “The Battle of I-95”

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They are the NBA’s version of the Super Friends.

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The Pierznik Monthly

The Pierznik Monthly Volume 27

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The August 2016 edition of my monthly reading review newsletter.

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Career Lessons Work

What Could Have Been: Lessons and Regrets from My First Job

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Last night, I was reading a story online that mentioned the woman that was the CEO of the first organization in which I worked after college. As I fell down a rabbit hole of reading associated articles, it mentioned her successor, the woman that had been the VP of Finance when I was there – in other words, my boss’s boss.

The more I read, the more I found myself thinking about that job and that organization.