Creating a Platform Pt 2 – Moving Past the Spaghetti Method

Mar 16th, 2015 Creating a Platform

Last week I delved deeply into my miserable failings at marketing my writing, and how I’ve mostly been okay with that. If I write something that people read it, great! If not, well, I wouldn’t say it’s great, but I really didn’t care that much. Like the title says, I threw it at the wall to see what stuck. If it fell on the floor,…

Creating a Platform – I Don’t Know What The Heck I’m Doing

Mar 11th, 2015 Creating a Platform

My original blog (creativelyaccounting.com) started as a place for me to hone some of my creative writing, nothing more. Something like, “yeah, it’d be great if people actually read this” went through my head from time to time, but my goal was just to have a place for me to hit snooze on my left-brained accounting thinking for a bit. Then it turned into a…

The Folly of LDS Church Financial Transparency

Feb 25th, 2015 Church

The first person that I baptized on my mission was one of the coolest people I’ve ever met, who we’ll call Tomas here so I don’t have to use his real name or keep on calling him “that one guy.” Tomas told me stories of his youth spent in the White City of Mexico (Puerta Vallarta), dancing on the beach and listening to the up-and-coming…