Marty Nemko

Fresh ideas about career, education, the life well-led, and improving the world.

Showing posts with label hype. Show all posts

Showing posts with label hype. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Child Labor: The Sequel: A short-short story

Friday, June 20, 2025

Junk: A fictional short-short story

Sunday, May 4, 2025

The Gala: A fictional short-short story, well, partly fictional

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Hiding From Hype at the Holidays

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Seductions from Gardening Catalogs

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

The Finger Painting: A fictional short-short story

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Honest Obituaries, LLC: A fictional short-short story

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

A Word With Marty: "NEW"

Sunday, May 12, 2024

A Word With Marty: "AWESOME"

Saturday, December 16, 2023

I'm Nice But Not Good: A fictional diary entry

Saturday, September 2, 2023

A Literary Agent Talks with a Client: A short-short story

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Hopes: A short-short story

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Inflated Job Titles

As kids, we joked that a garbage collector might call himself a sanitary engineer. But we’re no longer joking. My PsychologyToday.com ...

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

HYPE!: We Choose Image Over Substance, Brand Over Value, Sizzle Over Steak

Perhaps you'd enjoy an advance look at my next Life Well-Led column in the Mensa publication, The Intelligencer . The Life Well-...

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About Me

Marty Nemko: Oakland, CA, United States; I love being a career and personal coach and writing my Psychology Today blog: How to Do Life. My latest books, are "The Best of Marty Nemko" (3rd ed), Modern Fables, Poems Practical, and Careers for Dummies.. Some of my best recent work is linked to on this blog, but my older writings and the archive of my KALW (NPR-San Francisco) radio show are free on www.martynemko.com. If you would rather email me than post your comments on this blog, my email address is mnemko@comcast.net.

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