Angela Lee Duckworth was a high-flying consultant for McKinsey until she left her job to teach math in public schools. After five years of teaching seventh-graders, she went on to complete her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied students, West Point cadets and corporate salespeople to determine what made them […]
Quite frequently, someone asks me, “Brian, what do you recommend I use for ________?” Behold, (most of) those things that I recommend appear below, in one place for your review. There is something here for everyone including productivity tools, web hosts, social media tools, online backup options, accounting programs, etc., that I have personally used […]
1Check your privacy settings on your social networks (Insiders Tip: Your privacy settings on Facebook are only as good as your friends). 2Don’t re-use usernames on the web. 3Don’t ever use your real telephone number when communicating with someone on the web. Instead, use something like Burner or Hushed. 4Use shitty passwords at your own […]
“How can I become a private investigator?” I’ve been asked that question literally hundreds of time over the past several years. The truth is that I never had a great answer. Actually, I take that back. I had a decent idea, but it was nothing that I could boil down into a few sentences. So […]
Yesterday, Reuters published an article that caught my eye. It was about a “private investigator” hired by Uber who “fraudulently sought information about its opponents in an antitrust case.” In actuality, it was the New York Post’s salacious headline that really caught my eye: “Judge Probes Whether Uber’s Private Eye Lied to Dig up Dirt.” […]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the future. Not because I am going anywhere, but because technology is changing everything around us. It’s changed the way we shop (I am an online shopping addict), the way we consume information (e-books, blogs, podcasts, etc.) and the way that we make decisions (social media, online reviews) […]
I produce a lot of content for this website so I am constantly on the lookout for the some good stock photography. But one of the hardest things to find is a photo of a private investigator that doesn’t look absolutely ridiculous or cliché. Here are some gems that I wanted to share with you. […]
In early December 2015, we were contacted by Antonio, a businessman from California. He had been in an online relationship with Andrea for over a year. Andrea lived halfway across the country and things had been going well, but Antonio had become suspicious of her recent activities. They met through an online dating site. Over the year, they […]
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