Archive for January 26th, 2009

My article on the Miss America pageant ran at Culture11.com today. Highlights? Quoting my own 2002 USA Today column on the competition, in which I noted that it had become a search for “the nation’s most inoffensive woman.” Either be truly about empowering women and find us the Nobel Prize winners, CEOs and senators of the next generation, or get off your high horse and just show us a bunch of gorgeous (full-stop) girls.

Two years after the publication of Grindhopping, I officially decided to merge my two main websites (Grindhopping.com hadn’t been updated in a while, and it kept getting spammed or slowed down). Grindhopping.com now redirects here. I plan to cover more career issues on this site moving forward — including the key message of the book, which is doing what you love. I’ll also write more about self-employment in general; my cover story in City Journal on “The Promise and Peril of the Freelance Economy” is on news stands, but not yet up on the website, so that link will come soon. Many thanks to my little brother, Dan, for managing the redirect  — maybe it was his Google 20% project for today…